Senior QA Engineer - Quality Leader & Automation

Dark Matter Technologies; Sharon (Mercer County); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dark Matter Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior QA Engineer / Analyst to lead quality assurance across multiple products. You will drive test strategy, implement automation, and mentor junior QA engineers while championing quality practices within Agile teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with software engineers, product managers, and DevOps, and involves ownership of test plans, defect management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of software quality assurance, software testing, or quality engineering experience.
• Embraces an AI-First mentality when it comes to software testing.
• Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies and SDLC processes.
• Experience developing and executing comprehensive test strategies and plans.
• Experience with manual and automated testing methodologies.
• Strong defect analysis, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience working with test management and defect tracking tools.
• Experience validating APIs, databases, integrations, and enterprise applications.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Lead testing efforts for complex software projects, releases, and strategic initiatives.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies and execution plans for assigned product areas.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements to identify quality risks and testing needs.
• Champion quality engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Participate in release readiness reviews and production deployment validations.
• Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, API, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Create and maintain test plans, test scripts, test data, and testing documentation.
• Analyze test results and communicate quality status to stakeholders.
• Ensure comprehensive validation of new features, enhancements, integrations, and defect fixes.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects through resolution.
• Conduct root cause analysis for production and UAT defects.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve defect prevention and early quality detection.
• Analyze recurring quality trends and recommend corrective actions.
• Support continuous process and quality improvements.
• Develop and maintain automated testing assets and regression suites.
• Expand test automation coverage across applications and services.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify opportunities to increase testing efficiency through automation and tooling.
• Partner with engineering, product, architecture, and operations teams throughout project lifecycles.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to QA Engineers / Analysts and junior team members.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence.

Skills

Quality Assurance

AI-First Testing

Agile SDLC

Test Strategy

Test Automation

Root Cause Analysis

Communication

Multi-Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT or related

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Postman

Playwright

Selenium WebDriver

C#

Page Object Model

Job description

Dark Matter Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior QA Engineer / Analyst to lead quality assurance across multiple products. You will drive test strategy, implement automation, and mentor junior QA engineers while championing quality practices within Agile teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with software engineers, product managers, and DevOps, and involves ownership of test plans, defect management, and continuous improvement initiatives.