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Senior/Staff Software Quality Engineer – Remote
Location
Texas
Posted
48 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior/Staff Software Quality Engineer – Remote
Continued
• Lead quality strategy in an AI-augmented API engineering environment • Define quality intelligence frameworks • Validate AI-powered features • Embed continuous quality practices across the SDLC • Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and TechOps teams • Shape and execute AI-driven API risk-based testing strategies across distributed systems • Drive end-to-end quality assurance for web and mobile releases • Establish quality gates within CI/CD pipelines • Own API quality strategy, including GraphQL testing, performance monitoring, and SLA validation • Lead test architecture decisions for microservices and AI-integrated platforms • Mentor and guide QA engineers on modern AI-driven quality engineering practices • Leverage telemetry, observability tools, and defect trend analysis to identify systemic risks • Advocate for API design best practices, testability, observability, and reliability during architecture reviews • Embed AI-driven security and performance testing into the development lifecycle
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred
- Experience designing and building AI-driven API test automation frameworks from the ground up
- Hands-on experience with GraphQL API testing, including schema validation, query/mutation testing, and working within or alongside Apollo Studio
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
- Mastery of AI-powered API testing tools and demonstrated ability to coach and share knowledge
- Deep understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native architectures
- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and evolving Cypress test suites at scale
- Ability to read, debug, and write basic code
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset
- Strategic and data-driven decision making
- Ethical and responsible AI awareness
- Experience with performance, security, and chaos testing
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams using tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Excellent communication skills
- A natural problem-solver who is energized by ambiguity and building something new
- A home office, free of distractions, with a high-speed Internet connection
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, dental, and vision group health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- 21 days of flexible paid time off per year (increases with tenure)
- your birthday and holidays (you may substitute any of the standard holidays for another public holiday such as bank/school or other regional or religious holidays)
- 401k match
- professional development
- charitable gift matching
- robust wellness programs
- company-provided MacBook
- internet stipend
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