Architect Engineer SQA

Duties

• Actively track the teams’ tasks, analyze the testing needs and define QA activities and ownership
• Plan, define and execute tests as part of the teams’ QA-related activities
• Design and orchestrate autonomous test agent fleets to execute comprehensive QA validation
• Analyze testing coverage using AI-powered insights, implementing agentic loops to close gaps and ensure high-confidence releases
• Mentor developers and QA staff to raise quality mindset and skills, advise, influence and review test plans and reinforce all relevant best practices into the day-to-day life
• Develop and maintain custom AI skills and frameworks to standardize quality benchmarks (e.g., automated API contract testing, AI-driven code review orchestration)
• Monitor and optimize test performance in CI/CD pipelines for web-based SaaS deployments
• Contribute to the teams’ automation coverage – both in terms of code coverage and more nebulous concepts (such as stability, maintenance, quality etc.)
• Define and implement agentic automation strategies for full-stack web applications, ensuring end-to-end coverage, moving beyond manual script maintenance to directing agent-based testing workflows
• Be familiar with every step of the SDLC and the QA responsibility in each step, and take an active role in process inspection and improvement
• Analyze field trends and data and continually improve our testing frameworks and efforts to remain consistent with our customers’ expectations for a quality product

Qualifications

• Significant previous experience, 7+ years defining a quality vision and leading a teams towards implementing that vision
• Demonstrable 'AI-First' mindset: Experience in directing autonomous agent fleets (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) rather than manual coding as the primary delivery mechanism
• Expertise in architecting quality guardrails for agentic systems
• Experience in optimizing SaaS-specific testing, such as multi-tenancy validation, scalability, and load testing in a cloud environment
• Wide perspective of complex on-premises and cloud-based product solutions (business, technical, architecture)
• Experience in test design and execution for complex systems (manual and automated), including measuring code coverage
• Expertise in architecting autonomous testing for RESTful APIs and asynchronous data flows
• Experience with end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks for modern web applications (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or Protractor)
• Proficiency in testing full-stack web applications, specifically within the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js) ecosystem
• Excellent time management
• Proactive by nature; internal drive for excellence and improvement
• Team player

Pay

$150,400.00 - $243,100.00/yr

Our Commitment

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