QA Engineer

Production Technologies; Fullerton (CA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits

Mentor from senior engineers

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Production Technologies in Fullerton, CA is seeking a QA Engineer focused on performance testing to build robust, scalable testing pipelines in a freelance arrangement.

This role targets professionals with 1+ years of experience and offers $82,000-$120,000 with meaningful growth and generous benefits.

You will tackle race conditions, automate observability, and contribute to secure, distributed systems across CA.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of QA/testing experience.
• Strong knowledge of performance testing concepts.
• Familiarity with load testing tools and environments.

Responsibilities

• Catch performance testing race conditions during peak traffic.
• Wrangle config to mirror production in staging.
• Sketch LoadRunner architecture and defend it in reviews.
• Trace bugs across regression testing services to find root cause.
• Stand up observability to surface failures before customers.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems with security testing.
• Scale data pipelines handling millions of events with CI.
• Demonstrate adaptability with quick yes/no pivots.

Skills

Performance Testing

Collaboration

Adaptability

Written Communication

Security Testing

Tools

LoadRunner

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

Picture a QA Engineer role where Performance Testing expertise is the floor, not the ceiling, and Production Technologies in Fullerton, CA is building exactly that. For a gloriously-unglamorous professional with 1+ years behind them, this freelance QA Engineer job delivers $82,000 - $120,000 and meaningful growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Catch the Performance Testing race conditions that only surface under Fullerton peak traffic
• Wrangle Written Communication config across environments so Fullerton staging mirrors production
• Sketch the LoadRunner architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Trace a relentlessly curious technology bug across three Regression Testing services to the one bad line
• Stand up observability so Production Technologies sees failures before customers in CA do
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Security Testing and Written Communication
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Continuous Integration
• Spike an Adaptability proof of concept fast when Production Technologies needs a yes-or-no answer

What You'll Bring

• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, growth-minded environment
• Strong working knowledge of Written Communication and Security Testing
• A nimble bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• Familiarity with Production Technologies-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them

Production Technologies doesn't sell technology so much as guarantee it, a high-energy distinction the Fullerton, CA team takes personally. We build an environment where people-centered ideas get tested quickly and credit is shared fairly.

Combine $82,000 - $120,000 with growth, generous benefits, and a mentor, and you have the reason people stay at Production Technologies for years.

The Production Technologies team is expanding in Fullerton, CA this quarter, and this seat is part of that growth.