Senior QA Engineer - Remote | Automation & Quality Leader

Cross River; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cross River is seeking an experienced Senior QA Engineer who will embed quality into software from the start. You will define and evolve our automation strategy, build scalable UI automation using Playwright, Cypress, TypeScript, and Gherkin, and own end-to-end testing across our Angular enterprise applications.

You will integrate testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD and Octopus Deploy, review coverage, and drive improvements with AI-assisted tooling while maintaining engineering quality standards.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, SDET, or a similar engineering role focused on quality.
• Strong software engineering and programming skills with TypeScript.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright or Cypress or similar modern browser automation technologies.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of modern testing strategies, including the testing pyramid, component testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience testing modern web applications, preferably Angular applications.
• Experience with Gherkin/Cucumber or behavior-driven testing practices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, containerized applications, and cloud-based application architectures.
• Experience integrating automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and role-based access testing.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently identify problems, propose solutions, and drive quality engineering initiatives to completion.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality engineering strategy across our enterprise platforms, ensuring every release is backed by reliable automation and measurable quality.
• Design, build, and continuously improve scalable UI automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, TypeScript, and Gherkin. Drive the evolution of our automation architecture to improve reliability, maintainability, execution speed, and developer productivity.
• Own micro frontend integration and end-to-end testing across our Angular enterprise applications, ensuring critical user journeys and integrations are covered by reliable automation.
• Design and implement automated integration testing, smoke testing, and post-deployment validation for Sandbox and Production releases.
• Integrate automated testing and quality gates into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and Octopus Deploy release workflows, with automated test reporting and team notifications.
• Review test coverage across the testing pyramid, ensuring appropriate unit and component test coverage while taking primary ownership of integration and end-to-end automation.
• Perform exploratory and manual testing when appropriate, while continuously identifying repeatable scenarios that can be converted into reliable automation.
• Participate in refinement, design, and technical discussions to identify quality risks, edge cases, and testing requirements early in the development lifecycle.
• Investigate automation failures, release issues, and product defects through root cause analysis, working with the appropriate engineers until issues are understood and resolved.
• Proactively identify gaps in automation, testing strategy, tooling, and release processes, and drive improvements without waiting for direction.
• Define and publish quality metrics, test reports, and automated notifications that provide visibility into product health and release readiness.
• Take ownership of quality initiatives from idea through implementation, driving technical solutions to completion and continuously identifying opportunities to improve engineering quality.
• Effectively leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity, software quality, debugging, and test automation while ensuring all AI-assisted work is reviewed, understood, validated, and meets engineering quality standards before adoption.
• Evaluate new testing technologies, tools, and engineering practices and make recommendations that improve quality, maintainability, and team productivity.

Skills

TypeScript

Playwright

Cypress

Automation frameworks

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

End-to-end testing

Angular

Gherkin/Cucumber

AWS

Tools

Azure DevOps

Octopus Deploy

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

Cross River is seeking an experienced Senior QA Engineer who will embed quality into software from the start. You will define and evolve our automation strategy, build scalable UI automation using Playwright, Cypress, TypeScript, and Gherkin, and own end-to-end testing across our Angular enterprise applications.

You will integrate testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD and Octopus Deploy, review coverage, and drive improvements with AI-assisted tooling while maintaining engineering quality standards.