Senior QA Engineer

YASSI Yotta Automated Software Solutions Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

YASSI Yotta Automated Software Solutions Inc. is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to own quality across the web app, admin tooling, and integrations that customers rely on.

You will set testing strategy, lead risk-based exploratory testing, and push quality left in a fast-paced SaaS environment, collaborating with product and support to prevent defects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software QA experience testing a complex web application.
• Ability to own quality for a product area independently, not just execute a plan handed to you.
• Strong risk-based testing judgment with clear reasoning for test decisions.
• Deep QA fundamentals: test planning, design techniques, boundary/negative testing, defect lifecycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable flagging release readiness.
• Hands-on automation exposure (GitHub Actions, Playwright) to read/run/evaluate tests.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and testing's place within them.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and GitHub for bug tracking and test management.
• Solid API testing with Postman and SQL data validation.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum with frequent releases.

Responsibilities

• Own test strategy and defend coverage decisions with reasoning.
• Lead exploratory and risk-based testing across multi-tenant data and workflows.
• Design and refine test plans and cases; mentor reviews.
• Shift quality left by reviewing requirements and design early.
• Assess release risk for go/no-go decisions as the senior contributor.
• Write clear bug reports with reproduction steps and environment details.
• Manage regression suite to stay fast, meaningful, and scalable.
• Test APIs and integrations using Postman; validate payloads and status codes.
• Query databases to validate data and build needed test data.
• Collaborate with Support and Product to feed learnings into coverage.

Skills

Hands-on QA

Web apps

Automation basics

Postman

SQL

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Tools

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Job description

We're looking for a Senior QA Engineer to own quality for a significant area of our platform — the web application, admin tooling, and the integrations our customers depend on. This is a senior individual contributor role: you'll set the testing approach for your area rather than execute someone else's, and you'll be the person the squad turns to when the question is \"what could this break?\"

The craft here is still hands-on testing — exploratory work, risk-based coverage decisions, and the kind of deep product knowledge that catches the defect nobody wrote a test case for. What makes it senior is scope and influence: you'll define test strategy, push quality earlier into the development cycle, and make the judgment calls on release risk that others rely on.

What You'll Do

• Own the test strategy — deciding what gets deep coverage, what gets a smoke check, and what we consciously accept risk on, then defending those calls with reasoning rather than instinct.
• Lead exploratory and risk-based testing across multi-tenant data separation, role-based permissions, complex customer workflows, and the seams between systems where defects actually live.
• Design and implement test plans and cases and raise the standard of the team's existing cases through review and refactoring.
• Shift quality left — reviewing requirements and designs early, challenging ambiguous acceptance criteria before a line of code is written, and making the case for testability in design discussions.
• Own release risk assessment on go/no-go calls: what was tested, what wasn't, what the residual risk is, and whether it's acceptable. Senior means your assessment carries weight.
• Write exemplary bug reports with clear reproduction steps, environment details, evidence, and a considered severity and priority — and triage incoming defects for the team.
• Own and curate the regression suite so it stays fast, meaningful, and trusted; retire cases that no longer earn their place and identify the highest-value candidates for automation.
• Test APIs and integrations using Postman or similar — validating payloads, status codes, error handling, and contract behavior between services.
• Query the database to validate data directly, investigate discrepancies, and build the test data the team needs.
• Improve QA practice — identify recurring failure patterns, propose process changes, and drive them to adoption. You'll be expected to improve how we work, not just work within it.
• Partner with Support and Product on escalated customer issues, reproducing hard-to-pin-down problems and feeding what you learn back into test coverage.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on software QA experience, with meaningful time testing a complex web application.
• A track record of owning quality for a product area independently — setting the approach, not just executing a plan handed to you.
• Strong risk-based testing judgment: you can articulate why you tested what you tested, and what you deliberately left uncovered.
• Deep command of QA fundamentals: test planning and design techniques, boundary and negative testing, equivalence partitioning, severity vs. priority, and the defect lifecycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the credibility and comfort to tell a room that a release isn't ready — and to explain why.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools ( Github Actions, Playwright)) — enough to read, run, and evaluate a suite even if you don't build it.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and where testing fits within them.
• Proficiency with a bug tracking and test management toolchain (Jira, confluence, github)
• Solid API testing skills with Postman or similar, and working with SQL for data validation.
• Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment with frequent releases.

Nice to Have

• Senior QA experience in B2B SaaS, particularly with multi-tenant architecture, role-based permissions, or subscription and billing flows.
• Experience identifying automation candidates and collaborating with engineers on coverage strategy.
• Experience testing third-party integrations, webhooks, or SSO/SAML.
• Performance or security testing exposure.
• Accessibility testing against WCAG guidelines.
• ISTQB Advanced Level (Test Analyst) or comparable depth of training.