Test Engineering
Key Responsibilities
Quality Engineering Leadership
. Serve as a senior member of the engineering organization responsible for establishing
and promoting quality engineering best practices.
. Define quality standards, testing strategies, and automation frameworks across product
teams.
. Drive shift-left testing practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
. Participate in architecture, design, and requirements reviews to identify quality risks early.
. Mentor QA engineers and developers on testing and quality engineering practices.
. Advocate for continuous improvement and quality-first development culture.
Test Automation
. Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test frameworks and test suites.
. Implement automated testing across:
o Functional Testing
o API Testing
o Ul Testing
o Integration Testing
o Regression Testing
o Performance Testing
o Security Testing
. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
. Improve automation coverage and reduce manual testing effort.
. Analyze test failures and drive root-cause resolution.
Enterprise Application Testing
. Validate complex business workflows and enterprise application functionality.
. Develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scenarios.
. Ensure requirements are testable and traceable throughout the development lifecycle.
. Perform exploratory, system, integration, and end-to-end testing.
. Verify software meets functional and non-functional requirements.
Cloud-Native Quality Assurance
. Test cloud-native applications running within Microsoft Azure.
. Validate reliability, scalability, resiliency, and fault-tolerance requirements.
. Verify integrations across distributed systems, APIs, messaging platforms, and databases.
. Ensure applications meet enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards.
. Participate in release validation and production-readiness assessments.
Al & Intelligent Application Testing
. Support testing of Al-powered product capabilities.
. Validate outputs from Generative Al and Large Language Model (LLM) integrations.
· Develop test strategies for:
o Al Chatbots
o Al Assistants
o Al Agents
o Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Solutions
o Intelligent Search Experiences
. Evaluate Al output quality, consistency, accuracy, and reliability.
. Support Responsible Al practices including fairness, transparency, and governance.
. Partner with Al engineers to establish Al evaluation methodologies and testing
Frameworks.
DevOps & Continuous Testing
. Integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
. Develop automated validation processes for software releases.
. Support infrastructure validation and deployment testing.
. Monitor quality metrics and test coverage.
. Contribute to DevSecOps and continuous delivery initiatives.
Required Qualifications
Education
. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or
a related field.
. Equivalent professional experience will be considered.
Experience
. 7+ years of software quality assurance experience.
. 5+ years of hands-on automated testing experience.
. Experience supporting enterprise-scale software products.
. Experience working within Agile and Scrum delivery environments.
. Experience collaborating directly with development teams throughout the SDLC.
Required Technical Skills
Test Automation
Expertise in one or more of:
. Playwright
· Selenium
. Cypress
. Puppeteer
Experience with:
. Test automation architecture
. Automated regression testing
. CI/CD-based test execution
. Automated reporting and dashboards
API Testing
Experience with:
. REST APIs
. Postman
· Swagger/OpenAPI
. Automated API validation
. Contract testing
. Integration testing
Programming & Scripting
Hands-on experience with:
. C#
. .NET
. Python
. JavaScript / TypeScript
. PowerShell
Ability to develop maintainable automation frameworks and supporting utilities.
Performance & Security Testing
Experience with:
. Load testing tools
. Performance test design
. API performance validation
. Security testing fundamentals
. Vulnerability assessment processes
Microsoft Azure Experience
Working knowledge of:
. Azure App Services
. Azure Functions
. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
. Azure SQL Database
. Azure Cosmos DB
· Azure Storage
. Azure API Management
. Azure DevOps
. Azure Monitor
. Application Insights
. Azure Entra ID
Ability to test applications operating in cloud-native Azure environments.
DevOps & CI/CD Experience
Experience with:
. Azure DevOps Pipelines
. GitHub Actions
. Automated build and deployment pipelines
. Test execution within CI/CD workflows
. Quality gates and release validation processes
Al Knowledge
Working knowledge of:
. Generative Al concepts
. Large Language Models (LLMs)
. Prompt engineering fundamentals
. Al-assisted software development
. Al quality evaluation techniques
. Al Agents and agentic workflows
. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
. Azure OpenAl Service
. Azure Al Search
. Responsible Al principles
Understanding of the unique testing challenges associated with Al-generated outputs,
probabilistic systems, hallucinations, grounding, and Al governance.
Preferred Qualifications
. ISTQB Advanced Certification
. Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE)
. Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
. Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
. Experience testing Al-enabled business applications.
. Experience testing distributed microservices architectures.
. Experience with containerized applications and Kubernetes.
. Experience implementing quality engineering practices in cloud-native environments.
Leadership Competencies
. Quality-first mindset
. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
. Technical leadership and mentoring
. Attention to detail
. Risk assessment and mitigation
. Continuous improvement orientation
. Collaboration and teamwork
. Strong written and verbal communication
. Customer-focused thinking
Success Measures
. Increased automated test coverage
. Reduced production defects and escaped issues
. Improved release quality and deployment confidence
. Faster testing cycles and feedback loops
. Increased reliability and performance of Azure-hosted applications
. Successful validation of Al-powered capabilities
. Strong collaboration across engineering, product, and operations teams
. Continuous improvement of overall software quality metrics
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal Senior Quality Assurance Engineer combines strong software engineering and test
automation expertise with a passion for delivering exceptional product quality. They are
comfortable testing complex Azure-based enterprise applications, building scalable
automation frameworks, and helping teams confidently adopt Al-powered capabilities while
maintaining rigorous standards for reliability, security, performance, and user experience.
REMOTE
NOTE The ideal Senior Quality Assurance Engineer combines strong software engineering and test
automation expertise with a passion for delivering exceptional product quality. They are
comfortable testing complex Azure-based enterprise applications, building scalable
automation frameworks, and helping teams confidently adopt Al-powered capabilities while
maintaining rigorous standards for reliability, security, performance, and user experience.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of software quality assurance experience
- 5+ years of hands-on automated testing experience
- Expertise in one or more test automation tools: Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer
- Experience with API testing tools and standards: REST APIs, Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, contract testing
- Hands-on programming/scripting experience with C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and PowerShell
- Experience designing test automation architecture, CI/CD-based test execution, automated reporting and dashboards
- Experience with performance and security testing fundamentals and load testing tools
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure services (App Services, Functions, AKS, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, API Management, DevOps, Monitor, Application Insights, Entra ID)
- Experience with DevOps CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions
- Working knowledge of Generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, AI agents, and Azure OpenAI/Azure AI Search
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale software products and working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Mentoring and technical leadership in quality engineering practices
- ISTQB Advanced Certification
- Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE)
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
- Experience testing AI-enabled business applications, distributed microservices architectures, containerized applications, and Kubernetes
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