Senior QA Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to help ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of AI-driven operational platforms and real-time analytics products. This role is ideal for someone with strong experience in both manual and automated testing who can define testing strategies, improve release confidence, and collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and Design teams. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, systems-minded, and comfortable testing complex workflows, data-heavy platforms, distributed systems, and operational products. This position requires strong ownership, clear communication, and a proactive mindset focused on improving product quality and release reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Define and execute QA strategies for web applications, APIs, and operational systems.

Create test plans, regression strategies, and release validation processes.

Prioritize testing efforts based on product risk and business impact.

Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for frontend and backend systems.

Execute exploratory and manual testing when automation is not feasible.

Validate complex workflows, operational dashboards, and real-time product experiences.

Test backend services, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.

Validate data integrity, API responses, and system behavior.

Test UI consistency, workflows, usability, and implementation quality.

Identify, document, prioritize, reproduce, and track defects clearly.

Verify fixes across environments and support release readiness and post-release validation.

Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design teams to improve testing standards, automation coverage, and QA processes.

Must-have Requirements

5+ years of QA engineering experience.

Strong experience with automated testing for web applications and APIs.

Experience with manual, exploratory, regression, and release validation testing.

Strong test automation experience using modern frameworks such as Playwright.

Experience testing APIs, backend systems, and distributed services.

Experience testing complex SaaS, operational, or data-heavy platforms.

Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and QA best practices.

Strong debugging and analytical problem-solving skills.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated test integration.

Ability to design scalable and maintainable QA processes.

Experience working in agile product development environments.

Experience collaborating closely with Engineering, Product, and Design teams.

Strong communication skills in cross-functional environments.

Ability to work autonomously in remote environments.

Ownership mentality and proactive approach to quality.

Strong attention to detail and product quality.

Fluent English.

Nice-to-have Requirements

Experience testing AI-driven products or analytics platforms.

Experience with real-time systems or operational dashboards.

Familiarity with Python-based systems or computer vision products.

Experience testing edge or serverless architectures.

Experience with performance, load, or reliability testing.

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