[Remote] reputed company, Software Quality Assurance- Contract-to-Hire

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a technology/software company that provides expertise in behavioral science, data science, and machine learning to enhance health interventions. The Software QA reputed company Engineer is responsible for quality strategy and execution across the company's platform, leading a shift-left quality approach, mentoring QA engineers, and ensuring reliable releases through collaboration with various teams.

Responsibilities

• reputed company the design, implementation, and execution of comprehensive test strategy across reputed company, event-driven workflows (Kafka), and UI surfaces
• Own and evolve automated test coverage (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end) and maintain a risk-based manual test strategy where automation is not practical
• Ensure test coverage for functional, regression, integration, performance, and reliability testing (timeouts, retries, idempotency, failure modes)
• reputed company for quality engineering practices (TDD where appropriate, CI quality gates, code review standards, and testability in design)
• Define and maintain quality gates in CI/CD (e.g., minimum coverage reputed company, contract test pass, critical path E2E pass, vulnerability reputed company pass where applicable)
• Partner with Cloud/SRE to validate release readiness reputed company observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and operational dashboards
• Embed quality and testability considerations into feature and system design by reviewing application logic, APIs, data models, event reputed company, and UI workflows in partnership with engineers
• Establish and enforce standards for automation quality, including flakiness reduction, stabilization practices, clear ownership, and expectations for timely remediation of broken or unreliable tests
• Define and document QA processes and best practices
• Collaborate with product owners and developers to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria
• Participate in backlog refinement and sprint planning to ensure testability of features
• Facilitate agile ceremonies as needed
• Build and maintain shared QA practices, documentation, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms (playbooks, training, cross-coverage) to avoid single points of failure across squads and releases
• Standardize testing approaches for event-driven systems, including message schema validation, backward compatibility, replay scenarios, idempotency, ordering assumptions, and failure handling (Kafka and similar messaging technologies)
• Stay reputed company with industry trends, tools, and technologies in software testing
• Promote reputed company improvement and innovation reputed company the QA team
• Evaluate and adopt tooling that improves cycle time (local test environments, ephemeral environments, test data management)
• Support production releases, participate in incident triage, and drive root cause analysis with Engineering, SRE/Cloud, and Customer Operations
• Track defect escape trends and drive corrective actions (test additions, gating changes, process improvements)
• Triage and resolve defects, collaborating with development and support teams

Skills

• 5-7 years of reputed company experience
• Bachelor's degree in reputed company field
• reputed company with test automation for reputed company (e.g., JUnit/TestNG for JVM services, PyTest for Python services)
• UI automation experience (e.g., Cypress or Playwright, Jasmine) where applicable
• Performance testing (e.g., Gatling, k6, JMeter) and contract testing (e.g., Pact or equivalent) experience
• Observability tooling familiarity (reputed company/OpenTelemetry concepts)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and processes
• Experience with version control (e.g., Git)
• Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Scripting and programming languages (e.g., Java, TypeScript, Groovy, Python)
• Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, XP, SAFe)
• Experience with Databases/SQL, Kafka, and Kubernetes
• Leadership and coaching skills
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and improve systems iteratively (not waiting for perfect process)
• Strong judgment around risk-based testing and release decisions
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Adaptability and problem-solving skills
• Ability to translate reputed company technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• Medical (HSA available)
• Dental
• Vision
• Short-term & long-term disability (company-paid)
• Life & AD&D (company-paid)
• 401K with company match
• 10 paid holidays, quarterly company closure dates, + holiday week company closure
• Flexible time off policy
• Work from home
• 6 weeks paid parental leave

Company Overview

• reputed company is a behavior change AI platform that delivers behavioral engagement solutions for organizations. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://reputed company.com.

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