Top QA Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads end-to-end quality assurance for Workday implementations, upgrades, and enhancements. Defines testing strategies, plans, frameworks, and risk mitigation; oversees functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing across Workday modules. Manages defects, test data, environments, release validation, reporting, and stakeholder sign-off. Coordinates QA activities among business teams, developers, system integrators, vendors, and delivery partners while ensuring adherence to quality standards and governance.

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.

Plan, execute and automate functional, regression and integration tests for mobile (iOS/Android) and backend services. Create and maintain test plans, cases and data; log and track defects; support UAT, performance and stability checks; collaborate with developers, DevOps and architects; integrate automated tests into CI pipelines and validate release readiness across environments and physical devices.

Lead QA automation for healthcare billing and revenue cycle management platforms. Build Playwright and TypeScript test frameworks covering eligibility, claims, remittance, payment posting, APIs, databases, and financial reconciliation. Integrate generative AI and LLM workflows for test generation, self-healing scripts, and payer rejection simulation. Mentor peers, own product quality, and execute scalable automation in cloud-based CI/CD environments.

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

Designs, develops, executes, and debugs manual and automated tests for enterprise cloud and web applications. Builds automation suites with Selenium, Playwright, or similar frameworks and integrates them into CI/CD pipelines. Tests APIs, web services, and service layers; documents defects, validates releases, and partners with developers and product owners throughout the SDLC. Applies AI-assisted testing, generative AI, and prompt engineering to improve test coverage, test data, and automation efficiency.

Designs and executes automated, API, UI, regression, smoke, and end-to-end tests for cloud-native and air-gapped federal environments. Integrates test suites with GitLab CI and Jenkins, validates security and compliance baselines, diagnoses Linux and Windows systems, and documents test plans, defects, and results. The role supports reliable deployment of cyber-physical security solutions across government and critical infrastructure environments.

Test web applications across requirements, design, implementation, and release. Identify risks early through shift-left testing, manually validate complex features and payment flows, define acceptance criteria and edge cases, review documentation, and create clear bug reports and test documentation. Collaborate with developers, designers, and stakeholders to improve QA processes and product quality.

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.

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.

Test Salesforce releases for a New York State Department of Labor unemployment insurance call center. Develop and execute SIT and E2E scenarios covering workflows, case management, integrations, and user interfaces. Manage test cases, results, metrics, and defects in Copado, retest fixes, and coordinate with developers and functional stakeholders to confirm deployment readiness without disrupting live operations.

Leads functional, system, regression, integration, and black-box testing for web applications and server-based interfaces. Develops test plans, test cases, schedules, data strategies, and evaluation procedures from requirements and user stories. Executes SQL queries, API and web-service testing, manages defects, validates software deployments, documents QA processes, troubleshoots installation issues, and provides technical leadership to junior analysts while supporting cross-functional teams and client engagements.

Hands-on contract QA Engineer responsible for testing web applications, APIs, integrations, desktop and AI-powered features. Duties include creating test plans, executing functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and end-to-end testing, validating REST APIs and databases, testing complex workflows, documenting defects, supporting release readiness, and improving QA processes and coverage.

Develop and execute Salesforce test plans, cases, and scripts across functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and UAT testing. Validate Salesforce configuration, Flow automation, Apex, Lightning Web Components, integrations, data migrations, and reporting. Manage defects using Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools, support Classic-to-Lightning migration and release readiness, and communicate quality status to government stakeholders in a regulated federal environment.

Performs functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, UAT, and AI-agent testing across Salesforce releases. Develops test plans, validates Flow, Apex, LWC, SOQL, integrations, data integrity, prompts, grounding, guardrails, and Agentforce behavior. Manages defects, supports deployments, documents quality status, and briefs government stakeholders while maintaining scalable, auditable QA practices for a regulated federal environment.

Conduct functional and usability testing of Smarkets and BetSBK web and mobile platforms in Indiana. Test signup, login, promotions, deposits, betting, cashouts, withdrawals, customer support, and KYC journeys. Document bugs with reproduction steps and evidence, participate in live testing sessions, provide English QA reports and usability recommendations, verify fixes, and assess product readiness for compliant market launch.

Leads enterprise QA strategy, governance, automation, test architecture, tool selection, and CI/CD integration. Coordinates testing across distributed teams and vendors, oversees complex test planning and execution, analyzes quality trends, manages risks, mentors QA staff, and communicates quality metrics and strategy to leadership. The role operates independently and drives continuous improvement and cross-functional alignment on software quality.

Designs and maintains automated UI, API, regression, and web application test frameworks. Collaborates with engineering, product, and design teams to identify and resolve defects, performs exploratory testing, supports CI/CD and agile processes, and promotes quality, performance, usability, security, and healthcare data privacy compliance.

Lead the QA strategy for Network SDK, design test frameworks, mentor engineers, validate core SDK layers, and ensure high-quality releases.

Build and maintain enterprise-grade Playwright automation frameworks, integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and expand regression coverage across SaaS applications and APIs. Drive AI-assisted test generation using tools such as Claude, establish QA standards and metrics, prioritize automation opportunities, collaborate with engineering, product, and DevOps teams, and mentor junior QA staff.

Designs and maintains automated test suites for a federal IAM platform. Performs unit, regression, integration, functional, security, performance, and compliance testing; validates user stories and non-functional requirements; documents defects and coverage; supports agile ceremonies, application migration, test data management, code reviews, and CI/CD delivery across multiple environments.

Lead and transform the QA function for an AI-accelerated software organization. Define technical quality strategy, CI/CD gates, test-data approaches for PHI, and automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Build and grow a high-performing quality engineering team, set release standards and exit criteria, integrate AI/LLM evaluation with MLEs, and provide auditable metrics for leadership and regulators.

Perform end-to-end, integration, system, user acceptance, and automated testing for software applications. Create test strategies, plans, documentation, and automated test cases; execute tests; assess results; and track defects through resolution. Translate business requirements into technical requirements, identify risks, troubleshoot application issues, and collaborate with engineering and development teams. Support product implementations, training, technical escalations, and quality assurance oversight across project workstreams.

Lead and manage UAT for PeopleSoft ERP implementations: create UAT strategies and test plans, coordinate test data, execute manual test cases across Financials/HCM modules, track defects in JIRA/HP ALM, validate workflows and notifications, train end-users, and report UAT status to project leadership.