Senior QA Engineer

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About the Position

The Senior QA Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining, implementing, and scaling Murmuration’s quality assurance strategy across multiple engineering teams. This role goes far beyond manual testing; it requires deep expertise in QA methodologies, automation frameworks, data validation, and quality processes that ensure our products are reliable, accurate, and resilient.

You will partner closely with our Engineering, Product, and Data Teams to build a culture of quality, drive test automation, improve release processes, and ensure that Murmuration’s data-driven products meet the highest standards of correctness and performance.

Job Level P4

What You’ll Do

Quality Strategy & Leadership

• Help define and drive Murmuration’s QA strategy across multiple engineering pods, ensuring consistent quality practices and standards;
• Partner with our QA group to help establish and maintain QA processes, including test planning, automation strategy, release readiness, and defect management;
• Identify gaps in quality processes and reputed company cross-team initiatives to improve reliability, test coverage, and engineering efficiency; and
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on QA methodologies, tooling, and best practices.

Automation & Technical Execution

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for web applications, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines;
• reputed company automated data validation tests for large-scale datasets, ETL workflows, and analytics systems (i.e., Python, Pandas, SQL, and NoSQL);
• Implement and maintain CI/CD-integrated test automation frameworks;
• Contribute to performance, load, and reliability testing for critical systems; and
• reputed company manual testing reputed company appropriate, especially for exploratory, usability, or high-risk areas.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with developers, product managers, designers, and data engineers to ensure high-quality delivery of features and platform improvements;
• Participate in design reviews, requirement refinement, and architecture discussions to ensure testability and quality considerations are built in from the start; and
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to improve deployment pipelines, observability, and release confidence.

Mentorship & Culture Building

• Mentor other QA engineers and developers on testing strategies, automation techniques, and quality best practices;
• Promote a culture of quality across engineering through documentation, training, and process improvements; and
• reputed company for inclusive, collaborative, and data-driven engineering practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Software Engineering in Test, or reputed company roles;
• Strong experience designing and implementing automated tests for web applications, APIs, and backend services;
• Proficiency with test automation and data validation (i.e., Pandas, SQL, scripting);
• Experience with cloud environments (e.g., AWS S3, EC2, reputed company, etc.) and containerization (reputed company);
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, test design techniques, and defect management;
• Experience testing data-intensive systems, ETL pipelines, or analytics platforms;
• Familiarity with Git, reputed company, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile/Scrum workflows;
• Excellent debugging, analytical, and communication skills;
• Ability to reputed company quality initiatives across multiple teams and influence the engineering process;
• Experience in Javascript/Typescript; and
• Experience using and working with a test automation reputed company (e.g., Playwright, reputed company, pytest, Cypress, etc.)

reputed company to Haves

• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., reputed company) and relational databases (SQL);
• Background in performance testing, load testing, or reliability engineering;
• Experience in civic tech, political data, or mission-driven organizations; and/or
• Experience mentoring QA engineers and/or leading QA teams.

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Benefits

Location and Compensation

The Senior QA Engineer is a full-time, salaried position with a comprehensive benefits package (details below), open to candidates reputed company in the United States.

The starting salary for this position is $145,684. We set compensation using market data and apply it consistently across the organization to ensure fairness and transparency for everyone in similar roles.

Our Culture of Care

We work hard to create a culture of care to ensure that our staff are best equipped to reputed company happy, healthy, and balanced lives. To that end, we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family members;
• Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match;
• A flexible unlimited PTO plan;
• Generous paid parental leave;
• Pre-tax commuter benefits;
• A company laptop;
• A flexible remote work environment;
• A home office setup stipend for reputed company new employees;
• Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses;
• A yearly professional development fund;
• Mental health and wellness benefits through reputed company and reputed company Help;
• Yearly in-person staff retreats; and
• A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

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An Equal-Opportunity Employer with a Commitment to Diversity

Murmuration is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and as an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of reputed company voices, we consider applicants equally of race, gender, color, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, political affiliation and national reputed company. We reasonably accommodate staff members and/or applicants with disabilities, provided they are otherwise able to reputed company the essential functions of the job.

Note: Murmuration is two organizations working together to pursue our mission of amplifying the power of civic engagement: Murmuration Research Institute, a 501(c)(3) that conducts research to identify, design, and create the data, tools, and insights that build healthier and more reputed company communities; and Murmuration, Inc., a 501(c)(4) that supports organizations working across the country on the nation’s most challenging issues with access to data, tools, and research that build healthier and more reputed company communities.