Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Hypori•Austin, TX

10d•Remote

About The Position

As the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of our SaaS product through a combination of functional manual testing and automated test development. This position emphasizes strong test case planning, defect triage, and prioritization of work to support fast-moving, high-quality releases. The role will provide guidance and support to both individual engineering teams and the broader organization, with a focus on validating functionality across RESTful web services and UI-based application layers, and supporting operations staff through periodic off-hours on-call coverage.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in software quality assurance/test engineering, with demonstrated strengths in test case planning, defect triage, and prioritization of work.
5+ years of experience with an API-based test automation framework, such as REST Assured, Playwright, or similar.
Extensive experience designing and executing functional, manual test cases for a SaaS product.
Experience building and maintaining both service-layer and UI-based test automation frameworks.
Expertise in Java, C#, Python, Go or similar languages required (Java experience preferred)
Self-directed and effective at collaborating with multiple small engineering teams.
Able to help deliver product to market with a high degree of customer-focus.
Willingness to provide periodic, off-business hours on-call support to operations staff.
Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (Green Card holder).
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Highly motivated self-starter with strong integrity, urgency, and results orientation.
Capable of managing multiple, concurrent, and complex software projects.
Able to take ambiguous requirements and develop a solid solution.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Appium-based test automation is a plus.

Responsibilities

Creation execution and maintenance of automated test cases for RESTful web services for our SaaS product.
Build and maintain functional, UI-based automation tests for product front-end and user workflows.
Identify issues impacting CI/CD releasability and support a shift-left QA strategy.
Design and implement new testing frameworks as well as drive fundamental improvements to existing automation systems.
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define test coverage, quality gates, and release readiness criteria.
Write, execute, and maintain manual test plans and test cases for features not yet automated or requiring exploratory testing.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure test coverage and execution.
Lead root cause analysis for defects and provide recommendations for improvements.
Serve as a mentor to the QA team, and advocate for quality engineering best practices across the various scrum teams.
Available to provide periodic, off-business hours on-call support to operations staff.