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Senior Agile QA Engineer
Breakthrough Talent
Remote · US Full-time Senior 2w ago
About the role
We are hiring a Senior Agile QA Engineer to join a high-performing product squad within a modern, cloud-based engineering environment. This is a hands-on QA role , embedded directly into the squad, focusing on shift-left quality, automation, and AI-enhanced testing practices .
If you enjoy being the quality voice in an autonomous team, use AI to accelerate your workflow, and want real ownership over how quality is done, this will be a strong match.
What You’ll Do
- Lead quality strategy within your squad—define test scope, approach, and risk models
- Use data/metrics to drive quality decisions and identify risk early
- Work closely with Product & Engineering from the very start of the lifecycle
- Own and maintain automated tests (Playwright, API, integration)
- Strengthen the team’s shift-left mindset
- Contribute to non-functional testing: performance, resilience, security, accessibility
- Drive improvements across test coverage, tooling, and quality debt
- Use AI tools to speed up test creation, analysis, debugging, and risk reviews
- Collaborate with developers to improve their testing skills and approaches
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of hands-on QA experience within agile squads
- Strong automation background across UI and API layers
- Solid experience in microservices and modern distributed systems
- Confident reading code and reviewing test coverage
- Data-driven approach to testing and risk analysis
- Comfortable working with CI/CD, cloud environments, containers
- Excellent communication skills (this is critical)
- Curious testers who embrace AI to make their work faster and smarter
Nice to Have
- Experience with Playwright, TypeScript, Venom, Kafka, GraphQL, PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Elasticsearch, or resilience testing.
What’s On Offer
- 25 days holiday + public holidays
- Up to 15% annual bonus
- Remote-first culture
- Work with cutting-edge tech
- Real ownership within an autonomous squad
- A big focus on testing innovation and AI-assisted quality
If you would like to learn more then please contract us on . #J-18808-Ljbffr
Skills
APIAIAccessibilityCI/CDCloudContainersDockerElasticsearchGraphQLIntegrationKafkaMicroservicesMongoDBPlaywrightPostgreSQLResilience testingSecurityTypeScriptUIVenom
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