Senior QA Engineer – Application Development
About the Role
The Senior QA Engineer for Application Development will test, automate, and document our internal back-office web applications. This is a hands-on senior role: you'll own testing and automation for the applications you support, set the standard for test quality, and mentor onshore and nearshore QA testers. You'll partner closely with developers and business stakeholders and work within an agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Test, automate, and document internal back-office web applications hosted in Azure, covering the API, UI, and database layers.
- Build and maintain automated test suites, using Playwright for UI automation and automated API tests against Swagger/OpenAPI specifications.
- Ensure web applications function correctly across desktop and mobile browsers.
- Review other QA team members' test code, make sure automation follows coding standards, and optimize new and existing test suites.
- Run performance and load tests with JMeter, investigate and profile application performance issues, and coordinate optimization efforts with development.
- Help define and improve QA processes and best practices across new and existing applications.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Work with business users to understand their processes and propose technical and non-technical solutions to business problems.
- Mentor and guide onshore and nearshore QA testers.
- Track and report on test coverage, defects, and release readiness.
- Stay current on QA tools and practices, including AI-assisted testing.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of QA experience, with significant hands-on test automation.
- Strong experience with manual and automated API, UI, and database testing.
- Experience with Playwright for UI automation.
- Experience testing REST APIs, including working from Swagger/OpenAPI specifications.
- Working knowledge of SQL.
- Experience testing in cloud environments (Azure preferred).
- Experience with a test management tool (Qase preferred).
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Strong process discipline and attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a customer-service mindset toward business users.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps).
- Experience with JMeter for performance and load testing.
- Experience mentoring QA testers or working with distributed or nearshore teams.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code.
Current Tech Stack
Playwright, API testing (Swagger/OpenAPI), JMeter, Qase, Azure, Claude Code
