Senior QA Engineer - Performance Testing

CodeRoad; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD pay

PTO and holidays

Health insurance assistance

Job summary

CodeRoad is seeking a seasoned QA engineer for a 3-month contractor project in the United States. You will own end-to-end system validation, API and backend automation, and data integrity checks across multi-service platforms.

This remote role emphasizes collaboration with US-based engineers, building scalable test architectures, and advancing CI/CD integration. Strong SQL skills and English proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of dedicated QA experience in software quality engineering.
• Proven API/backend validation and automated framework design.
• Strong SQL skills across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL.
• Advanced English communication (C1) with US stakeholders.
• Experience with CI/CD and test automation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Validate complex system integrations and routing across ecosystems.
• Triage and resolve hub technical inquiries from operations teams.
• Identify platform gaps and lead documentation efforts.
• Architect scalable API and backend automation suites (REST/gRPC).
• Execute deep data assertions using multi-service SQL scripts.
• Integrate test pipelines into GitHub Actions / GitLab CI.

Skills

QA Engineering

API Automation

SQL

English Proficiency

Distributed Systems

Tools

PyTest

REST Assured

Playwright

Karate

Postman

Python

TypeScript

Java

C#

Job description

Location: United States

Engagement Type: Contractor (3-Month Project)

About CodeRoad

CodeRoad is a technology execution partner trusted by companies across North America since 2002. We work alongside our clients to engineer, modernize, and scale the technology that powers their businesses, combining deep technical expertise, specialized teams, and shared accountability for outcomes. Our capabilities span product engineering, platform engineering, legacy modernization, and AI engineering.

Our engineers, designers, delivery leaders, and technology specialists collaborate through Velocity Studios: specialized teams developed within CodeRoad to deliver complex technology initiatives. Being assigned to a project means you become part of a collaborative environment where you can strengthen your expertise, take ownership of meaningful work, and grow alongside experienced professionals.

Why Build Your Career at CodeRoad?

• High-Velocity Work & Client Exposure: We work close to the technology, teams and roadmaps that move real outcomes. Direct engagement with U.S. client teams and roadmaps.
• Career Continuity & Long-Term Opportunity: Your career here can outlast any single project. Continuous multi-project pipeline; long-tenure CodeRoaders.
• Engineering Autonomy & Technical Mastery: We invest in the skills that shape what's next. Agentic AI tools and training, Coursera Enterprise, Studio practice labs, L1-L7 Career Framework.
• High-Trust Employee Experience: You grow in an environment built on trust, transparency and recognition. High-touch onboarding, transparent leadership communication, community recognition, psychological safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate Complex System Integrations & Routing: Own end-to-end and functional verification of critical operational workflows, ensuring customer-assigned routes and logistics data flow seamlessly across merged application ecosystems and third-party endpoints.
• Triage & Resolve Hub Technical Inquiries: Act as the primary technical point of contact to investigate, reproduce, and root-cause system errors, edge cases, and field-reported issues originating from logistics and operations hub teams.
• Identify Platform Gaps & Lead Process Documentation: Perform comprehensive exploratory and functional QA audits across the platform, mapping out functional deficiencies, drafting robust test plans/technical documentation, and articulating actionable improvement strategies.
• Architect Scalable Backend & API Automation: Design, build, and maintain robust API and backend test automation suites (targeting REST/gRPC microservices) while sustaining a strategic 50% automation to 50% functional/exploratory split.
• Execute Deep Data Assertions: Write and execute advanced SQL scripts across multi-service databases to validate routing state changes, verify message integrity, and audit data sync workflows between integrated platforms.
• Drive Shift-Left Quality & CI/CD Integration: Integrate test pipelines into modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and actively collaborate with developers to propose flow optimizations and identify high-value automation opportunities.

What You Bring

• 5+ Years of Dedicated QA Experience: Proven track record in software quality engineering, demonstrating deep technical competency across functional system analysis, API/backend validation, and automated framework design.
• Strong Backend & API Automation Toolkit: Hands-on expertise automating services using tools and frameworks such as PyTest, REST Assured, Playwright, Karate, or Postman, with proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, TypeScript, Java, or C#).
• Advanced Database & Querying Skills: Solid proficiency in SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL) to audit complex transactions, verify data pipeline transformations, and validate multi-system data flows.
• Functional Discovery & Problem-Solving Ownership: Demonstrated ability to dissect complex distributed systems, translate operational support issues (such as field hub escalations) into reproducible test artifacts, and communicate platform gaps with clarity.
• Bilingual Communication & Autonomy: Advanced verbal and written English proficiency (C1 minimum) for seamless collaboration with U.S. engineering stakeholders, cross-functional delivery PODs, and distributed operations teams.

What You’ll Love

• USA Contractor / 100% Remote
• Competitive Pay (USD)
• Holidays Off & Paid Time Off
• Health insurance assistance program
• Opportunity to work with high-growth US-based companies and cutting-edge tech stacks.