Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Hudl•Chicago, KS

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Hudl, we build great teams and hire the best to ensure you’re working with people you can constantly learn from. We foster a culture where everyone feels supported, and we are recognized as one of Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. We are the team behind the team, supporting the lifelong impact sports can have. Our products help teams worldwide see their game differently by making it easier for coaches and athletes to capture video, analyze data, share highlights, and more. We are seeking an experienced, automation-focused Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our North American Sports product team. This team develops insightful analytics and Recruit products for American Football, assisting high-level coaches and analysts in making faster, data-driven decisions on player performance and talent acquisition. As the testing expert within your cross-functional squad, you will own quality end-to-end, building the strategies and automation that ensure we ship software our users love. You will drive quality discussions, challenge the team to maintain high standards, and advocate for reliability and performance at every stage of delivery.

Requirements

Quality focus. You see the big picture and use it to drive improvements in both quality and velocity.
4+ years of software testing experience with hands-on expertise across the full stack — API testing, backend and data-heavy systems, and front-end validation — plus proficiency in automation frameworks like Playwright and languages like Python or TypeScript.
A track record of leadership. You've owned quality for a squad, led testing initiatives end-to-end, defined success criteria, and designed approaches that measurably reduce risk in production.
Investigative rigour. You dig to root causes of complex problems, back your findings with data, and measure outcomes.
User focus. You think critically about the user experience and let that understanding shape your testing approach.
AI-powered working. You actively use AI tools in your day-to-day workflow — for test case creation, failure diagnosis, documentation, and beyond — and look for new ways to apply them to raise the team's efficiency.

Nice To Haves

Performance testing exposure. Familiarity with load, stress, and scalability testing concepts and tools (e.g. JMeter) for validating API and backend performance.
Sports knowledge. Passion for or experience in Basketball, American Football or Ice Hockey — whether as an athlete, coach, or fan — and an appreciation for the unique challenges of sports technology.
A relevant degree or equivalent experience. A bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Lead quality initiatives.
Build risk-based testing strategies tailored to your squad's architecture, drive quality discussions in scrum ceremonies, challenge defect priorities, and continuously look for ways to improve practices and keep your squad's quality processes ahead of the curve.
Design and execute tests spanning front-end UI, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines — validating transformations, service outputs, and complex logic at scale.
Make informed decisions about what, when, and how to automate. Use Playwright and scripting to build reliable, maintainable automated checks that keep pace with development.
Use your technical depth and quality instincts to coach teammates, raise the bar for quality standards across the team, and influence how the whole squad thinks about quality.
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design, contribute to hiring, and invest in your own professional development.