Remote-First Senior QA Engineer: Automation & Quality

vclusterlabs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Job summary

vclusterlabs is seeking an experienced QA leader to own quality strategy across backend services and UI. You will design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks, and ensure reliable feedback through CI/CD and product decisions in a fast-evolving product.

In this remote-first role, you will collaborate with engineering and product teams to shape testable features, run exploratory testing to catch edge cases, and balance priorities while guiding QA as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of QA or software testing experience, including 2+ years in a senior role.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or JavaScript for automation.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD and integrating test suites (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Strong analytical, debugging, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to own and prioritize in ambiguity while balancing multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks for services and UI.
• Set testing strategy across features, aligning coverage with product goals.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD to provide timely feedback on changes.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to shape testable features and quality expectations.
• Run exploratory testing to uncover usability issues and edge cases not covered by automation.
• Investigate backend and infrastructure issues while balancing work across multiple projects.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation

CI/CD integration

Test automation

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

vclusterlabs is seeking an experienced QA leader to own quality strategy across backend services and UI. You will design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks, and ensure reliable feedback through CI/CD and product decisions in a fast-evolving product.

In this remote-first role, you will collaborate with engineering and product teams to shape testable features, run exploratory testing to catch edge cases, and balance priorities while guiding QA as the company scales.