Sr. QA Engineer

About the role:

The Senior QA Engineer on the Duro Design team defines builds and scales the quality systems that ensure hardware engineers can rely on our platform every day. Youll architect and implement quality strategy across our modern stackfrom frontend interfaces to backend servicesembedding confidence into how we design ship and operate software. This role partners closely with engineering product and DevOps teammates in a fast-moving highly autonomous environment.

Were looking for engineers who think systemically about risk embrace experimentation and leverage modern AI-powered workflows to elevate quality across the organization. This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles CA (3 days per week in office).

A day in the life of our Senior QA Engineer:

Quality Strategy Ownership: Define and evolve our end-to-end quality strategy determining what gets tested at which layer and how coverage maps to real user risk.

Test Architecture: Design and maintain scalable test infrastructure across unit integration and end-to-end layers using modern frameworks such as Vitest Jest and Playwright.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner early with product and engineering teams to ensure features are testable by design and quality is embedded before code reaches production.

Full Stack Validation: Validate React interfaces GraphQL APIs and PostgreSQL data integrity to ensure system-wide reliability.

CI/CD Optimization: Architect and refine test pipelines in GitHub Actions (or similar) to balance speed coverage and deployment confidence.

Experimentation & Analytics: Leverage PostHog session replays feature flags and analytics to detect regressions surface edge cases and proactively identify risk.

AI-Driven Quality Engineering: Utilize AI-augmented development workflows to generate test scaffolding explore edge cases and increase velocity while maintaining rigorous standards.

Continuous Improvement: Lead regression analysis and incident retrospectives transforming defects into systemic improvements that strengthen long-term product resilience.

Qualifications :

Required:

8 years of professional experience in software quality engineering or software engineering with strong ownership of quality systems

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field

Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern testing frameworks such as Vitest Jest and Playwright

Experience testing React frontends and GraphQL-based APIs

Experience working with PostgreSQL and validating data integrity across service layers

Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins or similar)

Strong architectural thinking with the ability to design scalable maintainable quality systems

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Comfort operating in autonomous fast-paced environments

A product mindset with the ability to anticipate risk across the full feature lifecycle

Nice to Have:

Experience building PLM PDM or hardware/manufacturing industry software

Background in performance load or stress testing

Experience with visual regression testing tools (Percy Chromatic BackstopJS)

Familiarity with contract testing (Pact or similar)

Experience defining release readiness criteria or quality SLAs

Experience working in AI-augmented development environments
 

How We Build

We dont hire testers. We hire engineers who elevate quality.

At Duro AI is integrated into our engineering workflows. Engineers leverage AI-powered development environments to orchestrate tasks structure context and accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards of craftsmanship.

We value:

Architectural intuition understanding systems before implementing them

Precision in communication clear requirements produce strong outcomes

Pattern recognition knowing when to abstract reuse or experiment

Product taste recognizing quality and refining toward excellence

Intellectual curiosity continuously improving how we build

We optimize for engineers who can look at a roadmap anticipate where quality risk will concentrate and design systems that enable teams to ship quickly with confidence.

Additional Information :

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $150000 to $175000 annually. Actual compensation packages within this range are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate and role requirements including but not limited to skill set years and depth of experience certifications and specific location.

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days per week in our Los Angeles office)
 

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical health savings account (with applicable medical plan) dental vision health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts pre-tax commuter benefits life insurance AD&D and pet addition to elective benefit options benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D LTD short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time paid holidays and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose To Make Our Lives Easier. As the industrys leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive industrial infrastructure and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio including High Performance Computing Embedded Processing Analog & Connectivity and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 22000 professionals in more than 30 countries we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow To Make Our Lives Easier.    

 

At Renesas you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers evolving needs and help make peoples lives easier safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex race religion national origin gender gender identity gender expression age sexual orientation military status veteran status or any other basis protected by federal state or local law. For more information please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation collaboration and continuous learning.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose To Make Our Lives Easier. As the industrys leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive industrial infrastructure and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio including High Performance Computing Embedded Processing Analog & Connectivity and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 22000 professionals in more than 30 countries we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow To Make Our Lives Easier.     
 
At Renesas you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers evolving needs and help make peoples lives easier safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex race religion national origin gender gender identity gender expression age sexual orientation military status veteran status or any other basis protected by federal state or local law. For more information please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation collaboration and continuous learning.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time