Software Quality Assurance Sr. Analyst

Job Title: Software Quality Assurance Sr. Analyst

Location: San Francisco CA (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Key Responsibilities:

• Design maintain and execute clear structured test cases based on
• product specifications acceptance criteria and technical designs.
• Translate product requirements and implementation logic into meaningful
• test coverage including edge cases and negative scenarios.

Actively analyze defects:

• Reproduce issues reliably
• Investigate root causes
• Provide actionable insights to developers
• Collaborate closely with SDETs by:
• Providing input on test scenarios and system behavior
• Explaining business logic and edge cases
• Helping shape automation coverage strategy
• Ensure test work is visible and traceable within the development lifecycle
• by linking test cases execution results and defects to requirements development tasks and releases.
• Participate in refinement grooming and release discussions to ensure quality is built in early.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date test documentation and execution results in TestRail.
• Track defects test tasks and quality risks using Azure Boards.
• Validate complex workflows typical to a cybersecurity SaaS platform
• (scans reports configurations permissions user flows).

Core Skills & Mindset:

• 3 5 years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills.
• Ability to craft test cases from specifications not just from UI behavior.
• Comfortable reasoning about:
• Data flows
• State transitions
• Business rules
• Failure modes
• Confidence in debugging and issue analysis including reading logs
• inspecting responses and isolating root causes.
• Clear communicator who can explain why something fails not just that it fails.
• Collaboration & Process
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

Comfortable working closely with:

• Developers
• Product managers
• SDETs
• Able to give structured input to automation efforts without needing to
• write automation themselves.
• Values quality as a shared responsibility not a final gate.

Tools & Technologies

Test Management: TestRail

Work Tracking: Azure Boards

Testing Types: Functional regression exploratory and integration testing

Nice to Have:

• API testing experience
• Basic understanding of test automation concepts (Playwright API automation CI pipelines)
• Experience with SaaS platforms security products or complex configuration-driven systems