Senior QA Engineer - Hybrid, Automation & API Expert

Socket.dev; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Rightsline is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join our Quality & Experience team and own the quality bar for our platform. Reporting to the Manager of QA and based in Toronto on a hybrid-basis, you'll work closely with Engineering, Product, and the wider Quality team — bringing a meticulous, logical approach to testing and coding, sharp communication skills, and a genuine drive to solve hard problems.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you'll own the automated testing strategy, design and

Qualifications

• Ownership of the software testing life cycle (STLC) end to end.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills, including asynchronous JavaScript.
• Seasoned experience with load and performance testing tools such as JMeter and BlazeMeter.
• High proficiency with Git version control.
• Proven experience testing as part of an Agile/Scrum team, partnering with engineers to shape testing strategy throughout the sprint.
• 5+ years of QA automation experience, having owned the software testing life cycle (STLC) end to end.
• Expertise designing, building, and debugging automated test suites, with 5+ years testing REST/API services using Postman.
• 5+ years writing, executing, and reporting on manual and automated test cases — smoke, sanity, functional, integration, and regression.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality of key features end to end — from interpreting requirements through functional, regression, and smoke testing for your assigned Scrum team.
• Evaluate and test change requests to confirm the software meets defined requirements before it ships.
• Investigate issues uncovered during testing, get to the root cause, and update tests so they catch it next time.
• Design and build clean, lean automated tests using the Playwright framework to cut out repetitive manual work.
• Keep the test repository healthy — readable, maintainable, and well-organized — through regular refactoring.
• Review pull requests promptly to raise our code quality bar and keep projects moving.
• Research, pitch, and implement new tools that make our testing sharper and more efficient.

Skills

QA automation

JavaScript (async)

REST/API testing

Git

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Playwright

Postman

JMeter

BlazeMeter

Jira

TestMo

AWS CodeBuild

Cypress

Angular

React

Job description

Rightsline is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join our Quality & Experience team and own the quality bar for our platform. Reporting to the Manager of QA and based in Toronto on a hybrid-basis, you'll work closely with Engineering, Product, and the wider Quality team — bringing a meticulous, logical approach to testing and coding, sharp communication skills, and a genuine drive to solve hard problems.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you'll own the automated testing strategy, design and