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