Senior QA Engineer

Proximia; Bozeman (MT); On-site; USD 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Dental and vision coverage

HSA contributions

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Phone reimbursement

Direct access to engineering leaders

Real hardware lab access

Fast-paced startup culture

Job summary

Proximia, Bozeman, MT, seeks a senior QA Engineer to own quality end-to-end. You will gate releases, build automation, and drive a growing QA platform across web, API, mobile, desktop, and hardware in our lab. You will balance automation with critical defect reporting and real-world testing in a fast-growing startup.

You will collaborate with engineering and product, mentor QA teammates, and shape testing standards. You must be a U.S.

Qualifications

• At least seven years in software QA, including ownership of test automation in production.
• Gated real releases and able to describe a time you held one.
• Experience testing desktop software on Windows and/or macOS, including installers and upgrades.
• Git-based workflow: branches, pull requests, code review, CI.
• Clear written communication; tickets, test plans, and run records.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment where you own outcomes.
• A degree in a technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Release gating across desktop, web, APIs, and mobile surfaces; maintain run records and QA sign-off.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans and a current test-case library.
• Build and maintain automated web, API, desktop, and mobile suites; ensure traceability to test cases.
• Extend the internal QA console to track test runs, sign-offs, and coverage.
• Keep CI/CD suites green and publish readable test results and dashboards.
• Reproduce, isolate, and file prioritized defect tickets; verify fixes; run regression tests.
• Manage the test lab with desktops, mobile devices, and hardware.
• Collaborate with engineering and product to ensure testability and early risk awareness.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to QA team; promote QA tooling best practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling for test generation, maintenance, triage, and reporting.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support department and company goals.

Skills

QA ownership

Test automation

Desktop testing

Git + CI

Technical communication

Startup environment

Degree or equivalent

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Job description

Location: On-site in Bozeman, MT (relocation assistance available)

Work authorization: Must be a U.S. person under U.S. export control law (see below)

Salary range: $80,000 to $150,000, depending on experience

Start date: As soon as possible

About Proximia

Proximia builds zero trust authentication across both digital and physical assets. Our platform replaces passwords with fast, passwordless login and keeps protecting users after they sign in, locking access when they walk away. Organizations use Proximia to secure personal and shared workstations, remote teams, and offline environments.

Because customers trust us with access to their most sensitive systems, we hold ourselves to the same standards they are audited against: SOC 2, HIPAA, with FedRAMP 20x and CMMC Level 2 in progress. That bar applies to how we build, test, and ship.

The role

As our senior QA engineer, you will own quality across the system from end to end: gating releases, keeping the testing honest, and building automation that makes our testing more efficient and our product more secure.

Our product spans web applications, mobile apps (iOS and Android), desktop clients (Windows and macOS), APIs, and physical hardware, and every release is tested on real devices in our lab before it ships. You will help build out our QA platform: a growing test-case library, automated suites for web, API and mobile, and an internal QA console that tracks runs and release sign-off. Your job is to shape it, grow it, and make it the thing the whole company trusts to answer "is this release good?"

This is not a pure automation seat and it is not a pure manual seat. In any given week you will write automation code, drive a physical test lab, file precise defect reports, and decide whether QA signs off on a release. Product, security, and engineering hold their own gates. The QA gate is yours, and no release clears it without you.

What you will own

• Release gating. Plan and execute release testing across every surface we ship: desktop clients (installers, upgrades, services, authentication flows), web applications and admin tooling, mobile apps, and APIs. Every release has an executed-run record; you keep that record, and QA sign-off is yours.
• Test planning and the test corpus. Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases, and keep the test-case library current as the product changes: triage, change requests, retirement, coverage mapping.
• Test automation. Build out and maintain the automated suites for web, API, desktop, and mobile. Keep tests traceable to documented test cases so it is always clear what automation covers and what still needs a manual pass. Own test data discipline so every run is repeatable, self-provisioning, and self-cleaning.
• The QA console. Extend the internal web app that tracks test runs, release sign-off, and coverage. You own what it needs to do and ship changes to it yourself, with support from engineering. You are comfortable working in a web app, not just testing one.
• CI/CD and reporting. Keep suites green on CI, keep the delivery pipeline healthy, publish results people can read (dashboards, trend reporting), and make failures actionable.
• Defects. Reproduce, isolate, and file clear, prioritized defect tickets; verify fixes; run regression and pre-release smoke passes. Review test results regularly and troubleshoot issues in the system under test.
• The test lab. Run the physical lab: desktop machines, mobile devices, and the hardware our product works with. Keep it documented so anyone can use it.
• Working with engineering and product. Get involved early: review stories for testability with product owners, pair with developers on repro, and raise risk upward before it ships, not after.
• Leadership. Mentor and guide QA team members as the function grows, set the testing standard, and keep the team current on QA tooling and practice.
• AI-assisted workflow. We use AI coding tools daily for test generation, maintenance, triage, and reporting. You review what these tools produce with a critical eye and use them to move faster without lowering quality.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support department and company goals.

The ideal candidate should have

• At least seven years in software QA, including several years owning test automation in production, not proof-of-concept.
• You have gated real releases and can describe a time you held one.
• Experience testing desktop software on Windows and/or macOS: installers and upgrades, background services, and authentication or login flows.
• Git-based workflow: branches, early draft pull requests, code review, CI. You work in the open.
• Clear written communication. Others rely on your tickets, test plans, and run records.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment where you own outcomes, not tasks.
• A degree in a technical field, or equivalent hand-on experience.

Nice to have

• Identity and access management: SSO, MFA, modern authentication protocols, desktop login.
• Hands-on Microsoft Entra ID or AWS administration: tenants, users and groups, app registrations, access policies for test environments.
• Mobile test automation on iOS and Android.
• Testing with physical hardware in the loop: wireless devices, readers, device farms.
• CI/CD ownership, including self-hosted build and test infrastructure.
• Security or cybersecurity product background.

What we offer

• Salary range of $80,000 to $150,000, depending on experience
• Group health plan, 100% employer funded
• Dental and vision coverage, with an employer contribution
• Employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA), subject to HSA eligibility
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance, 100% employer funded
• $50,000 term life insurance, 100% employer funded
• Partial reimbursement for personal cell phone use
• Real hardware, real customers, real releases: your call matters.
• Direct access to engineering leadership.
• Benefits are subject to the terms of each plan and policy.

This role supports federal and defense customers and involves access to export-controlled technical data. Applicants must be U.S. persons as defined by U.S. export control law (22 CFR 120.62): U.S. citizens and nationals, lawful permanent residents, and individuals granted asylum or refugee status. This restriction is imposed by federal law, not by preference, and Proximia does not otherwise consider citizenship or immigration status in hiring. Proximia is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities; contact [e-mail].