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Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Eliassen Group · Chicago, IL · 2 wk ago
Engineering$125k–$145k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end quality efforts across features and product areas.
  • Design and execute test strategies for complex, data-heavy systems.
  • Validate systems that handle large volumes of data and high-throughput workloads.
  • Develop and execute test cases for both data accuracy and system performance.
  • Write and execute SQL queries to validate data integrity and troubleshoot issues.
  • Partner with engineering teams to identify, reproduce, and resolve defects.
  • Contribute to improving test frameworks, tools, and overall QA processes.
  • Participate in design reviews to ensure testability and scalability.
  • Provide clear, structured feedback during testing cycles.

Requirements

  • 3–5+ years of Quality Assurance or Software Testing experience.
  • Strong experience testing backend systems or data-driven applications.
  • Proficiency with SQL and relational databases, including joins and aggregations.
  • Hands-on experience validating large-scale datasets or high-volume systems.
  • Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, or C++.
  • Ability to test complex application environments and identify edge cases at scale.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Experience working in an agile, collaborative engineering environment.

Focus Areas

  • Historian or data-focused QA and performance or system QA, including load, throughput, latency, and stability testing.
  • Strong preference for experience with high-throughput or distributed systems, performance testing tools and methodologies, time-series data concepts, and complex SQL for validation and debugging.

Experience

Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis.

Pay

$125,000 - $145,000/yr. w2

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