Senior QA Engineer – Automation & Release Readiness Remote

Atomic HR; New York (NY); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Atomic HR is seeking an experienced QA engineer to own testing strategy for a fast‑growing SaaS platform. You will build automated tests, run end‑to‑end and API tests, and own release readiness across web apps and integrations. Work remotely across the U.S. with a team that ships rapidly and values evidence‑based decisions.

You’ll define tests, collaborate with delivery teams, and push back on risky dates with data‑driven insights while improving coverage and quality across the product.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quality, test or software engineering, with automation you wrote yourself, running in CI and kept by other engineers.
• At least one test practice you built from a low baseline: you chose the tools, wrote the first suites, wired them into CI, and can explain what you left untested.
• Strong test code in Python or TypeScript across API, browser and pipeline, including headless browser runs and integration tests for failing dependencies.
• Experience testing business rules you had to learn first: you read the policy, found the gaps, and wrote tests from the answers.
• Experience as the only quality person across several teams, setting your own priorities with no backlog handed to you.
• Clear written updates for engineers and non‑engineers alike, including the confidence to challenge a deadline with facts.

Responsibilities

• Test strategy and automation.
• Decide where the product is most likely to break and what gets tested first.
• Build end‑to‑end journeys, a smoke suite on every build, and integration tests in code engineers review and keep.
• Pick the tools and run everything in GitHub Actions.
• Release verdicts – provide ready/not ready notes with evidence for each release.
• Write a plain‑language summary for non‑engineers of what’s verified and push back on risky dates with evidence.
• Testing inside delivery teams – sit with customer‑facing teams and test features as they’re built across teams.
• Set a shared definition of “done” and coach engineers on testing their own work.
• Web app, services and outside systems – run functional, regression and accessibility tests across browsers and devices.
• Test APIs and asynchronous flows between services, and write contract tests for outside systems.
• Make sure the product behaves sensibly when a dependency is slow, down or returns wrong data.
• AI chat features – Build evaluation suites with golden datasets for chatbots and assistants, rerun them on every prompt or model change.
• Use AI tools to write, maintain and triage tests.
• Test data and security – Seed realistic test data for a complex system, inside strict access and data‑protection rules.
• Help find and fix security vulnerabilities in the app and its infrastructure.

Skills

Quality automation

CI/CD

Python

TypeScript

Headless browsers

API testing

Browser testing

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Atomic HR is seeking an experienced QA engineer to own testing strategy for a fast‑growing SaaS platform. You will build automated tests, run end‑to‑end and API tests, and own release readiness across web apps and integrations. Work remotely across the U.S. with a team that ships rapidly and values evidence‑based decisions.

You’ll define tests, collaborate with delivery teams, and push back on risky dates with data‑driven insights while improving coverage and quality across the product.