Senior QA

Our client is a SaaS company building quality and compliance software for highly regulated industries such as life sciences. They're investing in two priority programs, a modernization of their platform to a microservices architecture and a new mobile app built in React Native, and they're adding senior engineering and quality capacity to their existing scrum teams to speed both up.   What You'll Do The Senior Quality Automation Engineer is embedded in one of the client's scrum teams, either Architecture Modernization or Mobile, and owns automated quality for new services and mobile features. You'll build and maintain automated regression and performance testing, integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, and make sure test coverage grows with every new service and feature. You'll work closely with developers, tech leads and product owners in an AI-forward engineering organization, following a validated SDLC for regulated product releases.   Key Responsibilities Test Automation and Quality Gates • Design and implement a risk-based test strategy and test cases for services and mobile features. • Build and maintain automated API, UI, integration and regression tests using Playwright and similar tools. • Run performance and load testing with k6. • Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines as quality gates. • Perform contract and integration testing across microservices. • Automate mobile testing and ensure device coverage on iOS and Android (e.g., Appium). Defect Management and Release Evidence • Triage defects and support root-cause analysis with developers. • Maintain traceability and produce clear test and release evidence suitable for regulatory review. • Proactively flag blockers, risks and quality concerns. Team Collaboration • Take part in all scrum ceremonies (planning, daily stand-up, refinement, review/showcase and retrospective) in two-week sprints. • Demo completed work to product owners and stakeholders in sprint showcases. • Use approved AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) for test generation, code review and documentation.   Required Experience and Technical Skills • Senior-level experience in quality automation for production SaaS products. • Proficiency in TypeScript, C# or another programming language. • Hands-on experience with Playwright (UI/end-to-end) and k6 (performance and load). • Experience with mobile test automation on iOS and Android (Appium or similar). • Experience with API, UI, integration, regression and exploratory testing. • Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub or similar). • Familiarity with contract and integration testing in microservices environments. • Advanced English, with clear written and verbal communication with distributed US teams. • Availability to work with overlap with US Eastern Time, covering all sprint ceremonies.   Core Competencies • A structured, risk-based approach to testing and problem solving. • Proactive ownership of quality, with early escalation of risks and blockers. • Ability to work within established architecture, coding and quality standards. • Comfort working in agile environments and presenting work to stakeholders.   Nice to Have • Experience supporting validated or regulated software (GxP, data integrity, ALCOA+, audit trails, change control). • Life sciences or quality-management SaaS experience. • Experience with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud. • Experience with AI-assisted testing workflows.