Haystack
← Back to Jobs
Remote
Technology

QA Engineer / VMware / Enterprise

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLCChicago, IL🇺🇸United StatesPosted 6 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This fully remote QA Engineer role offers a fantastic opportunity to impact flagship enterprise products and grow your skills in virtualization and cloud technologies. You'll thrive here if you're a detail-oriented tester with a passion for quality, collaboration, and shaping the future of QA within a respected organization. Apply today to join a team that values your contributions and offers excellent work-life balance!

Quick Overview

Work Type
Remote
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

A growing enterprise software organization is expanding its Quality Assurance team to support multiple flagship products used in large-scale Windows and virtualized environments. This is a full-time, fully remote role focused on hands-on manual testing across desktop, infrastructure, and cloud based systems.

Quality Assurance is a core function here, not an afterthought. The QA team is scaling intentionally to keep pace with development and remove testing bottlenecks. This role offers the chance to work on a completely redesigned user interface, test real world enterprise deployments, and help shape how QA evolves as the organization prepares for future automation initiatives. Strong work life balance, collaborative engineers, and real ownership over test quality make this a standout opportunity.

Required Skills & Experience
  • 4+ years of experience in a hands on QA or Software Testing role
  • Strong experience testing Windows based applications
  • Ability to create clear, repeatable, and deterministic test cases
  • Experience executing smoke, regression, and exploratory testing
  • Familiarity with defect tracking tools such as Jira
  • Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

Desired Skills & Experience
  • Exposure to virtualization technologies (VMware vSphere / ESXi, VDI environments)
  • Experience testing in cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure)
  • Basic Linux familiarity (testing and environment awareness)
  • Prior experience supporting UAT or working closely with end users
  • Interest in test case management tools and process improvement

What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown
  • 45% Windows Applications & Environments
  • 25% Virtualization (VMware / VDI)
  • 20% Cloud Infrastructure (AWS / Azure)
  • 10% Linux-based systems
Daily Responsibilities
  • 70% Hands-On Manual Testing
  • 15% Test Case Creation & Maintenance
  • 15% Collaboration with Developers & QA Team

The Offer
  • Competitive base salary
  • Bonus eligible
Benefits Include:
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Paid Vacation and Holidays
  • Long-term growth opportunities within QA
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Skills

AWS
Azure
Jira
VMware

Similar jobs