Senior QA Engineer

Senior QA Engineer 

Experience: 10+ Years

Employment Type: W2 Contract only

About the Role

We''re looking for a Senior QA Engineer who owns quality end-to-end — not just someone who writes test cases. In a world where AI can generate test scripts, the value you bring is judgment: knowing what actually needs testing, catching what automated/AI-generated tests miss, spotting edge cases, and making the call on whether a release is safe to ship. You''ll set QA strategy, mentor engineers, and be the last line of defense before production.

Key Responsibilities

• Own quality strategy and release-readiness decisions across one or more product lines
• Design and maintain scalable test automation frameworks (UI, API, integration, regression)
• Apply risk-based testing — prioritize what to test based on business/user impact, not just coverage numbers
• Review and validate AI-generated test suites and code for gaps, false coverage, and blind spots
• Build and maintain CI/CD-integrated test pipelines
• Lead performance, security, and non-functional testing strategy
• Mentor junior/mid-level QA engineers; establish QA best practices and standards
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps on quality gates and definition of done
• For AI/ML-driven products: test for non-deterministic outputs, hallucination/bias detection, model accuracy and drift, in addition to standard functional/regression testing
• Communicate quality risk clearly to stakeholders/leadership in business terms, not just bug counts

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years in QA/software testing, including 3+ years in a senior/lead capacity
• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks: Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright
• Proficiency in at least one programming language: Python, Java, or JavaScript
• Solid experience with API testing (Postman, REST Assured) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Experience with test management/defect tracking tools: Jira, TestRail, Zephyr
• Strong grasp of performance testing (JMeter, k6) and/or security testing fundamentals
• Cloud-native testing experience (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform environments, containerized apps)
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and improve AI-assisted/AI-generated testing output
• Excellent written/verbal communication; able to translate technical risk into business impact