Top QA Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

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.

Manual QA Engineer responsible for creating and executing test cases, performing functional/regression/integration/exploratory testing, tracking defects, validating features, supporting releases, and improving QA processes for a health services platform.

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.

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 Quality Engineering for a large-scale digital commerce and loyalty modernization program. Define QA strategy, lead automation-first testing across microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native AWS workloads. Drive CI/CD continuous testing, environment and test data management, performance/resiliency/security testing, and mentor QA teams while collaborating with product, architecture, DevOps, and program leadership to ensure release readiness and production reliability.

Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts for web applications, APIs, and backend services. Execute regression, integration, and end-to-end tests; integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines; analyze requirements and produce test plans/cases; identify and track defects; collaborate with developers and product teams to improve QA processes and software quality.

Lead QA automation strategy and team to design, build, and maintain Java-based Selenium/Cucumber automation frameworks. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines on AWS, define QA processes, measure quality with KPIs, manage defect lifecycle, and collaborate with development, DevOps, and product teams to ensure delivery of high-quality enterprise applications.

Design and execute test plans and strategies, perform functional/integration/regression/exploratory testing, validate end-to-end wallet and cross-chain transaction workflows, document and track defects, build and maintain automated test suites, collaborate with engineers to reproduce/debug issues, and improve QA processes and release readiness.

Perform functional, regression, and integration testing for Amazon Connect contact flows and IVR. Validate AWS Lambda integrations, document defects, support UAT with stakeholders, and monitor routing and call handling post-deployment.