Senior QA Engineer - AI-Driven Testing & FedRAMP

Ontic; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits

401k

Stock Options

HSA Contribution

Learning Stipend

Flexible PTO Policy

Parental Leave

Home Office Stipend

Mobile Phone Reimbursement

Home Internet Reimbursement

Job summary

Ontic, a security software company, is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead manual and automated testing efforts across front-end, API, and integrations. You will drive test strategy, expand automation, and ensure quality for Commercial and FedRAMP environments.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and QA teams, mentor junior engineers, and help shape release risk communication while thriving in a fast-paced startup setting in Austin.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in manual and automation testing.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, software development lifecycle, and testing best practices.
• Experience with test management tools like JIRA.
• Proven ability in functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development processes.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with a willingness to learn and adapt.
• Prior experience with FedRAMP or secure testing practices is a strong plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in automation frameworks or scripting.
• Exposure to FedRAMP environments or working on government projects.
• Experience with MongoDB, AWS, and Elasticsearch is highly desirable and would be a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute test cases for front-end, API, and integration testing using AI generated test cases with humans in the loop for review.
• Risk-based test planning and estimation, identifying critical scenarios, edge cases, negative testing, exploratory testing and determining appropriate regression coverage across multiple releases.
• Ensure test coverage and quality standards are maintained for Commercial and FedRAMP customers.
• Collaborate with product, developers and QA team members to resolve issues effectively.
• Own quality for assigned features from requirements through production readiness, including test strategy, execution, automation, defect management and release risk communication.
• Support system integration testing and continuous delivery workflows (CI/CD).
• Identify automation opportunities and contribute to building test automation frameworks.
• Work independently with minimal supervision, and proactively communicate progress and blockers.
• Participate in requirement/design discussions, review acceptance criteria, identify testability gaps and risks before development begins.
• Review test cases/automation created by other engineers, share best practices, and mentor junior QA engineers. This is an important Senior-level differentiator.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation testing

QA methodologies

SDLC

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IT

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Ontic, a security software company, is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead manual and automated testing efforts across front-end, API, and integrations. You will drive test strategy, expand automation, and ensure quality for Commercial and FedRAMP environments.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and QA teams, mentor junior engineers, and help shape release risk communication while thriving in a fast-paced startup setting in Austin.