QA / Test Automation Engineer

Flaredog; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Flaredog is seeking a QA engineer to help keep production software reliable by building automated tests that uncover meaningful defects before release. You’ll work with engineers to investigate issues, address underlying causes, and provide a clear view of product quality and release risk.

You’ll design and maintain automated test suites, create regression checks, and collaborate to resolve failures, while communicating quality metrics that reflect real product risk.

Qualifications

• At least two years of QA or test automation experience on production software.
• Ability and willingness to write test code beyond preparing manual test plans.
• Strong attention to edge cases and ways systems can fail.
• Clear written communication in bug reports and reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated test suites across products.
• Create regression checks and release gates that catch practical risks.
• Collaborate with engineers to identify and resolve root causes of failures.
• Track and communicate quality measures that reflect real product risk.
• Examine edge cases and failure modes as part of ongoing test coverage.

Skills

QA / test automation

Test code writing

Edge case analysis

Bug report writing

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Release automation

Job description

Role overview

Help keep production software reliable by building automated tests that uncover meaningful defects before release. You’ll work alongside engineers to investigate issues, address their underlying causes, and provide a clear view of product quality and release risk.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated test suites across products.
• Create regression checks and release gates that catch practical risks.
• Collaborate with engineers to identify and resolve root causes of failures.
• Track and communicate quality measures that reflect real product risk.
• Examine edge cases and failure modes as part of ongoing test coverage.

Requirements

• At least two years of QA or test automation experience on production software.
• Ability and willingness to write test code, beyond preparing manual test plans.
• Strong attention to edge cases and ways systems can fail.
• Clear written communication in bug reports and reviews.

Nice to have

• Experience testing AI or LLM-enabled features.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• A software engineering background.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote, with work arranged within your timezone.
• Ownership of your area from the start, with direct access to founders.
• Small, experienced team and an async-first culture with few meetings.