Top Remote QA Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Perform manual exploratory testing and build/maintain automated test suites (Playwright/Selenium). Integrate tests into CI/CD, collaborate with product and engineering on acceptance criteria, investigate and track defects, and advocate shift-left testing and continuous quality improvements.

Lead quality assurance and test strategy across Agile teams, drive automation for testing, mentor QA teams, and ensure high-quality software delivery.

Lead QA Automation Engineer to architect and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for web, API, and database layers; define automation, regression, performance, and release testing strategies; write and run automated API/UI/integration/regression/performance tests; integrate tests into CI/CD; own QA backlog, mentor engineers, troubleshoot complex defects, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure release readiness and quality standards.

Design, execute, and analyze functional, regression, integration, system, and performance tests for a web-based observability platform. Create test plans and cases, track defects, collaborate with developers and product, improve QA processes, and potentially build/maintain automated tests. Participate in Agile ceremonies and investigate root causes to ensure timely resolution.

Lead QA team to develop and implement QA strategies, automation frameworks (mobile-focused), integrate testing into CI/CD, measure quality with KPIs, manage defects, mentor engineers, and report testing progress to stakeholders.

Own quality for assigned features from test planning through release validation. Design test strategies, write and maintain automated tests, perform API and exploratory testing, identify risks, mentor junior QA, collaborate with developers, and improve test infrastructure and processes.

Lead and administer QA testing teams for a Dynamics 365 CRM application. Develop and execute manual and automated functional, regression, performance, and accessibility tests; create detailed test cases; run SQL queries for data analysis; report defects and test results; and collaborate with development and customers to define and implement test automation.

Design, build, and run automated test suites (smoke, regression, end-to-end) for web apps using modern frameworks; create and execute test plans; track and verify defects; integrate tests into CI/CD; evaluate AI-powered testing tools; collaborate with engineering and product teams in an agile environment.

Senior QA Engineer responsible for designing and executing test strategies for Amazon Connect contact centers, building manual and automated Playwright/Cypress/Selenium suites across UI, API and serverless backends, validating migrations and production readiness, running UAT, incident triage, and mentoring junior QA engineers.

Design, develop, and execute automated tests, perform API and performance testing, identify and document defects, collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality and resolve issues.

Work as an embedded QA automation engineer to design, build, and maintain end-to-end and API test suites, integrate tests into CI/CD, run performance/load tests against a NestJS monolith, manage test data, and validate AI agent behavior and integrations across OMS/WMS/catalog workflows.

Lead QA initiatives across the SDLC: design and execute manual and automated tests, perform API and backend testing with SQL validation, manage defect lifecycle, advocate process improvements, and mentor team members to ensure product reliability and release readiness.

The Principal Technology Architect - QA will design QA architecture for SaaS products, implement AI-driven testing, and mentor engineers. They will ensure quality practices are adopted across teams and represent the organization in the quality engineering field.

Design, develop, and execute manual and automated tests for front-end, back-end, APIs, and large-scale services. Build and maintain automated test suites and frameworks (Java, JUnit, Selenium, TestNG), analyze logs, report results, and collaborate with stakeholders; ensure test coverage across devices and drive test strategy and sign-off.

Manual QA Engineer responsible for manual testing of iOS, Android, and web apps. Test new features, document bugs in Jira with reproduction steps, validate fixes, perform release candidate and smoke testing, contribute to test planning and regression suites, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure release readiness.

Lead QA & Standards for an enterprise SaaS platform, owning manual QA, automation, and performance testing. Set org-wide test standards, define release quality gates, drive AI-first QA adoption, grow performance engineering, manage distributed teams, and partner with engineering leadership on automation strategy and quality transformation.

Lead QA testing for an AWS-hosted government web application and Drupal front end. Design and execute functional, load, performance, failover, security, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA / Section 508), and CI/CD smoke tests. Validate IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform), authentication integration, content migration, USWDS theming, cross-browser/responsive behavior, and document defects in Jira/Azure DevOps.

Develop and maintain automated tests, analyze and record test run results, work with CI/CD, write tests in Java, use SQL and bug tracking systems, and support test process improvements.

The Quality Assurance Manager oversees technical quality across factory operations and field inspections, manages quality reports, and collaborates with teams on quality assurance practices.

Lead QA strategy and execution for ARBI and Athena: audit QA, define test architecture, build automated frontend/API/integration/regression suites, validate AI/LLM behaviors and data workflows, integrate tests into CI/CD, perform performance and reliability testing, and own release readiness, metrics, and QA operating rhythms across the product.

Expand and own automated test coverage for the Kitchen Display System: design and execute UI, API, regression, and smoke tests; build scalable automation frameworks; maintain CI/CD test pipelines; investigate defects and improve test reliability; collaborate with developers, product, and QA; use AI-assisted tools to boost test design and engineering productivity.

Design, develop, and execute automated and manual tests for enterprise web applications. Build and maintain automation scripts, dashboards, and test cases; perform backend/database validation, API testing, defect tracking, and release verification across multiple projects. Support test strategy, execution, and post-production validation.

Perform functional, automation, API, and database testing using Katalon, Postman, Selenium/TestNG. Develop and execute test cases and automated scripts, track defects, validate backend data with SQL, support CI/CD test processes, collaborate with developers, and prepare QA documentation and reports to ensure software quality across applications and microservices.

Build and deliver AI-assisted QA curriculum as part-time instructors, authors, or subject-matter experts. Create and review course content, lead workshops, design exercises, advise on AI QA workflows, and support curriculum improvement with hands-on tool experience.

Lead a team of automation engineers, oversee automation strategy and integration into CI/CD for delivering quality software.