Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (OnsiteHybrid)
Foxborough, MA - USA
Job Summary
WHY THIS IS A ONCE-IN-A-CAREER OPPORTUNITY
- Lead in a market undergoing significant disruption and growth from cloud migration to edge intelligence to AI-powered industrial automation.
- Join a culture defined by ambition authenticity speed teamwork and the belief that manufacturing can meaningfully improve the world.
- Competitive benefits compensation and long-term impact on how the worlds industrial companies operate automate and innovate.
ROLE SUMMARY
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to lead our quality initiatives and ensure the delivery of high-performing reliable software. As a key member of our engineering team you will not only design and execute complex testing strategies but also act as a mentor process advocate and architectural advisor. You will be instrumental in evolving our automated testing frameworks and fostering a quality-first culture across the entire development lifecycle.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Strategy and Test Architecture
- Test Planning: Designing comprehensive test strategies for complex features ensuring full coverage across unit integration system and regression testing.
- Automation Framework Development: Designing and maintaining robust automation frameworks from scratch selecting the right tools (e.g. Playwright FlaUI Protractor RestAssured Selenium Playwright etc) that align with the companys tech stack.
- CI/CD Integration: Working on the DevOps tasks to integrate automated testing into the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines to ensure quality at speed.
- Test lab management: Upkeep of all the test environments (on premise and cloud). Managing the security patching on the test deployments.
2. Technical Execution
- Risk Analysis: Performing deep-dive risk assessments to identify which parts of the application are most prone to failure and prioritizing testing efforts accordingly.
- Performance and Security Testing: Moving beyond functional testing to oversee or perform non-functional testing including load testing stress testing and basic security vulnerability assessment.
- Root Cause Analysis: Investigating complex production issues to understand why bugs escaped the testing cycle and implementing safeguards to prevent recurrence.
3. Leadership and Mentorship
- Mentoring: Coaching junior engineers on best practices code quality and testing methodologies.
- Process Improvement: Identifying bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and proposing process improvements (such as shifting left - testing earlier in the development cycle).
- Advocacy: Acting as a Quality Champion within the organization promoting a culture where quality is a shared responsibility among developers product managers and designers.
4. Collaboration and Communication
- Requirement Analysis: Participating in design and architecture meetings early in the process to identify logical flaws or edge cases before code is even written.
- Stakeholder Reporting: Translating technical quality metrics (e.g. defect density test coverage pass/fail rates) into actionable insights for product managers and stakeholders.
Qualifications :
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Programming Skills: Proficiency in at least one object-oriented language (e.g. Python JavaScript/TypeScript) to build and maintain complex automation frameworks.
- Automation Frameworks: Expertise in industry-standard tools. Experience developing automated tests for Windows based applications is highly preferred.
- Web: Selenium Playwright or FlaUI.
- API: Postman REST Assured or PyTest.
- CI/CD Knowledge: Practical experience with pipelines (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI).
- Infrastructure & Cloud: Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) and containerization (Docker Kubernetes) to simulate production-like testing environments.
- Metrics-Driven Mindset: Experience defining and tracking KPIs such as Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) and defect leakage rates to demonstrate the ROI of the QA team.
- Agile/Scrum Experience: Strong background working in iterative environments including participation in sprint planning grooming and retrospectives.
- Industrial Automation Domain: Experience with SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) application and PLC devices REQUIRED.
Education & Experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or in STEM Majors (Science Technology Engineering and Math)
A minimum of 6 years of professional experience
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Hybrid
No travel needs.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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