Platform Quality Engineer - Cloud & API Performance

StarCompliance; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

StarCompliance is seeking a Platform Quality Engineer to own integration and API testing across our distributed, cloud-native SaaS platform. You will design, implement, and maintain automated tests, validate cross-service interactions, and ensure reliability, resilience, and performance at scale.

Reporting to the Lead Quality Architect, you will work with product owners and engineering teams to validate upcoming changes, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and apply AI-assisted tooling to accelerate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Relevant cloud platform certifications in Azure or performance testing are beneficial but not required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests at the integration and API layers across distributed services.
• Develop tests for asynchronous and event-driven workflows, including messaging, retries, ordering, and failure scenarios (e.g. Azure Service Bus–based integrations).
• Contribute production-quality code to shared automation frameworks and quality tooling used across the enterprise platform.
• Design and execute performance and scalability tests for the enterprise SaaS platform.
• Build and maintain performance test data, scenarios, and workloads reflecting real-world usage patterns, including load, concurrency.
• Integrate automated functional and performance tests into CI/CD pipelines, contributing to reliable, high-signal quality gates.
• Support validation activities within the Staging environment as the primary platform integration and quality assurance layer.
• Analyze functional, integration, and performance test results to identify systemic platform risks and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to understand upcoming platform changes and integrations, preparing targeted integration and performance tests in advance.
• Collaborate with architecture, platform, and engineering teams to improve system testability, reliability, and observability.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate test creation, improve coverage, analyse failures, and reduce test flakiness.
• Adhere to and contribute to quality standards, patterns, and engineering practices defined by the centralised Platform Quality Engineering function

Skills

Platform QA

C#/TypeScript/Python

API testing

Cloud-native testing

Event-driven testing

Performance testing

CI/CD testing

AI tooling

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelors in CS/SE

Cloud/QA certifications

Tools

Azure DevOps

Kafka

Azure Service Bus

JMeter

k6

Gatling

SNS/SQS

Job description

StarCompliance is seeking a Platform Quality Engineer to own integration and API testing across our distributed, cloud-native SaaS platform. You will design, implement, and maintain automated tests, validate cross-service interactions, and ensure reliability, resilience, and performance at scale.

Reporting to the Lead Quality Architect, you will work with product owners and engineering teams to validate upcoming changes, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and apply AI-assisted tooling to accelerate