QA Engineer - $81.73 - $100.96 per hour

About the Role

This opportunity is for a Staff QA Engineer who will own and continuously evolve the quality assurance function for a rapidly growing AI-powered software platform. This is a highly autonomous, hands-on technical leadership role focused on defining the organization’s approach to quality, advancing test automation, and ensuring every release meets high standards for reliability, performance, and user experience. This is not a traditional quality assurance position. The role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, strong product judgment, customer awareness, and the ability to build scalable systems that enable teams to release software with confidence.

What You’ll Do

• Own the QA Strategy

• Own and evolve the organization’s overall quality assurance strategy

• Establish scalable QA processes that support rapid and high-confidence software releases

• Define quality standards, release criteria, and testing best practices across the organization

• Continuously improve how software quality is measured, communicated, and maintained

• Identify opportunities to shift quality earlier in the software development lifecycle through improved tooling, automation, and processes

• Maintain clear ownership and accountability for quality across releases

• Lead Test Automation

• Set the technical direction for the automated testing strategy

• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks

• Integrate automated testing frameworks into CI/CD pipelines

• Evaluate and implement testing tools, frameworks, and architecture that support long-term software quality and engineering velocity

• Continuously expand automated test coverage

• Reduce reliance on manual testing through effective and maintainable automation

• Drive the continued evolution of automation capabilities as the product and engineering organization scales

• Make informed decisions regarding testing tools, architecture, and technical implementation

• Champion Product Quality

• Develop a deep understanding of customer workflows, product functionality, and business priorities

• Approach testing from the customer’s perspective

• Proactively identify edge cases, failure modes, usability concerns, and product risks before they reach production

• Distinguish critical release blockers from lower-priority defects

• Balance quality standards with release speed and business priorities

• Partner with Product teams to recommend improvements that strengthen the customer experience

• Help improve product design, usability, and reliability

• Lead Cross-Functional Quality Initiatives

• Cheer for quality across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Product Operations, and other cross-functional teams

• Coordinate testing activities across multiple teams while maintaining clear ownership and accountability

• Translate customer issues into clear and actionable test cases

• Validate fixes before they are released to customers

• Influence Engineering and Product teams to improve quality throughout the software development lifecycle

• Communicate quality risks, release readiness, testing results, and priorities clearly across technical and nontechnical teams

• Use AI to Modernize Quality Assurance

• Evaluate and implement AI-powered workflows that improve testing efficiency and release confidence

• Apply AI-assisted tools to build and maintain automated tests

• Apply AI to accelerate exploratory testing

• Apply AI-assisted analysis to investigate test failures and identify potential causes

• Use AI tools to identify regression risk and prioritize testing efforts

• Continuously explore new ways to make quality assurance faster, smarter, and more scalable

• Help establish AI-assisted testing as a core part of the organization’s quality strategy

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance

• Significant professional experience with test automation

• Proven ability to design and implement scalable QA processes

• Proven ability to define and execute comprehensive test automation strategies

• Experience establishing quality standards, release criteria, and testing best practices

• Strong product judgment and the ability to understand complex user workflows

• Ability to advocate for an exceptional user experience

• Ability to drive quality initiatives across multiple cross-functional teams

• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and make independent technical decisions

• Strong experience with modern automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium

• Experience testing AI-powered or large language model products

• Experience building or significantly evolving a QA function within a growing startup environment

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins

• Experience with API testing

• Experience with integration testing

• Experience with regression testing

• Familiarity with modern bug-tracking tools

• Familiarity with modern test-management tools

• Experience implementing AI-assisted testing workflows

Pay

Annual Salary Range: $170,000 - $210,000 per year