Sr. QA Engineer

About the role

The Senior QA Engineer on the Duro Design team defines, builds, and scales the quality systems that ensure hardware engineers can rely on our platform every day. You’ll architect and implement quality strategy across our modern stack—from frontend interfaces to backend services—embedding confidence into how we design, ship, and operate software. This role partners closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teammates in a fast-moving, highly autonomous environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve our end-to-end quality strategy, determining what gets tested, at which layer, and how coverage maps to real user risk.
• Design and maintain scalable test infrastructure across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers using modern frameworks such as Vitest, Jest, and Playwright.
• Partner early with product and engineering teams to ensure features are testable by design and quality is embedded before code reaches production.
• Validate React interfaces, GraphQL APIs, and PostgreSQL data integrity to ensure system-wide reliability.
• Architect and refine test pipelines in GitHub Actions (or similar) to balance speed, coverage, and deployment confidence.
• Leverage PostHog session replays, feature flags, and analytics to detect regressions, surface edge cases, and proactively identify risk.
• Utilize AI-augmented development workflows to generate test scaffolding, explore edge cases, and increase velocity while maintaining rigorous standards.
• Lead regression analysis and incident retrospectives, transforming defects into systemic improvements that strengthen long-term product resilience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering or software engineering with strong ownership of quality systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern testing frameworks such as Vitest, Jest, and Playwright
• Experience testing React frontends and GraphQL-based APIs
• Experience working with PostgreSQL and validating data integrity across service layers
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Strong architectural thinking with the ability to design scalable, maintainable quality systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort operating in autonomous, fast-paced environments
• A product mindset with the ability to anticipate risk across the full feature lifecycle

Additional Information

• Compensation: The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $175,000 annually. Actual compensation packages within this range are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate and role requirements, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, certifications, and specific location.
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days per week in our Los Angeles office)

Benefits

• Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation.
• New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

About Renesas

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose 'To Make Our Lives Easier.' As the industry's leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Export Controls

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

Hybrid Work Model

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.