Senior QA Engineer

YASSI Yotta Automated Software Solutions Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Equity/stock options

Flexible PTO

Hybrid work

Job summary

YASSI Yotta Automated Software Solutions Inc. seeks a Senior QA Engineer to own quality for a major platform area including the web app, admin tooling, and customer integrations.

You will set testing strategy, lead risk-based testing, and guide release risk decisions in a hands-on, senior individual contributor role. You will drive test planning and design, expand regression coverage, and push quality earlier in development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in hands-on software QA for a complex web app
• Independently owning quality for a product area
• Strong risk-based testing judgment and decision making
• Deep QA fundamentals: planning, design, boundary/negative testing, defect lifecycle
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to advocate for release readiness
• Automation experience with tools like Github Actions, Playwright or similar
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and testing within them
• Proficient in bug tracking and test management (Jira, Confluence, GitHub)
• Solid API testing using Postman and data validation with SQL
• Fluency with browser dev tools and application logs to diagnose issues
• Experience in Agile/Scrum with frequent releases

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy for your area, deciding coverage depth, smoke tests, and acceptable risk, with reasoned calls
• Lead exploratory and risk-based testing across multi-tenant data separation and complex customer workflows
• Design and implement test plans and cases; improve existing ones through review and refactoring
• Shift quality left by reviewing requirements and designs early, challenging ambiguous criteria
• Own release risk assessment and articulate what was tested, what wasn’t, and residual risk
• Write exemplary bug reports with reproduction steps, environment details, evidence, severity and priority
• Own and curate regression suite; retire outdated cases and identify high-value automation candidates
• Test APIs and integrations using Postman or similar; validate payloads and status codes
• Query databases to validate data, investigate discrepancies, and build test data
• Improve QA practices by identifying recurring failure patterns and driving adoption
• Collaborate with Support and Product on escalated issues and feed learnings back into coverage

Skills

QA fundamentals

Risk-based testing

Test planning & design

Communication

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD

SQL basics

Bug triage

Test strategy

Test automation reading

Tools

Github Actions

Playwright

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Postman

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
• Fluency with browser developer tools and application logs — you can usually tell the team whether an issue is front-end, back-end, or data before they open it
• 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

Benefits

• Health/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Equity/stock options
• Flexible PTO
• Hybrid work