Hybrid Software QA Engineer — Equity & IoT/Firmware Growth

Throne Labs; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity

Earned wage access

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Life insurance

EAP

Job summary

Throne Labs is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for a hybrid role, onsite about 3 days per week from Brentwood, MD or Seattle, WA. The base salary ranges from $100,000 to $135,000 with a comprehensive benefits package including equity.

You will contribute to QA/QC for firmware and software across internal staff, users, and partners. You will design tests, perform manual and automated testing, and collaborate with product and engineering to improve time-to-market while ensuring high

Qualifications

• 4+ years of QA experience in software.
• 2. Back-end API, database, web and mobile testing experience.
• 3. Understanding of cloud-based architecture and hands-on AWS tools.
• 4. Micro-services and serverless architecture knowledge.
• 5. Familiarity with observability/monitoring tools.
• 6. Test automation with JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.
• 7. Willingness to work in a startup R&D phase.
• 8. Strong communication with on-site and remote teams.
• 9. Proactive in process improvement and feedback.
• 10. Experience using AI-assisted testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering to understand requirements.
• Estimate test efforts and plan testing scope.
• Design test cases, checklists, and scenarios across levels.
• Manually test firmware and software for quality and UX.
• Perform integration testing of hardware/firmware/software components.
• Investigate logs and localize issues in production and QA environments.
• Provide test coverage information and contribute to Test Plan.
• Setup and maintain QA test environments.
• Leverage AI/tools to optimize testing and automation.
• Create and maintain technical/testing documentation.

Skills

QA engineering

API testing

Web testing

Mobile testing

Automation

AWS basics

Observability

AI-assisted testing

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Sentry

OpenSearch

GitHub Copilot

Testim

Job description

Throne Labs is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for a hybrid role, onsite about 3 days per week from Brentwood, MD or Seattle, WA. The base salary ranges from $100,000 to $135,000 with a comprehensive benefits package including equity.

You will contribute to QA/QC for firmware and software across internal staff, users, and partners. You will design tests, perform manual and automated testing, and collaborate with product and engineering to improve time-to-market while ensuring high