Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Verra Mobility; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Verra Mobility in Mesa, AZ seeks a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to champion automation and the quality of our core technology products. You will lead automation initiatives, enforce quality gates in the CI/CD pipeline, and scale QA practices across multiple engineering teams.

The role demands strong leadership, hands-on automation expertise with Playwright and JMeter, plus experience in Azure DevOps and Agile/Scrum.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field.
• 7+ years in software quality assurance with senior/lead experience.
• Proven automation experience with modern QA tooling.

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce uniform QA processes and testing standards across development teams.
• Implement and monitor quality gates within the CI/CD pipeline for releases.
• Architect, scale, and maintain automated testing frameworks across web apps and Windows services.
• Mentor QA team members and raise automation maturity across squads.
• Analyze complex requirements, lead design reviews with Product/Development/Scrum teams.
• Oversee system integration, functional, regression, and performance testing (manual and automated).
• Track and report defect metrics and test coverage to senior management.

Skills

Automation frameworks

Playwright

JMeter

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Agile Scrum

Web API testing

Windows testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)

Tools

Playwright

JMeter

Azure DevOps

Job description

Position Overview
Verra Mobility is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to champion the development and quality of our core technology products. You will lead automation initiatives, establish strict quality gates, and standardized testing methodologies across multiple engineering teams. This role requires a balance of hands-on technical expertise in automation and strategic leadership to scale our QA competency.

Position Overview
Verra Mobility is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to champion the development and quality of our core technology products. You will lead automation initiatives, establish strict quality gates, and standardized testing methodologies across multiple engineering teams. This role requires a balance of hands-on technical expertise in automation and strategic leadership to scale our QA competency. To be successful, you must display robust leadership and interpersonal skills, possess a high aptitude for technical learning, and show initiative in solving complex engineering problems. You will foster collaboration, mentor team members, and maintain high composure and transparency in a fluid, fast-paced environment.

Essential Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce uniform QA processes, testing standards, and best practices across all development teams.
• Implement and monitor strict quality gates within the CI/CD pipeline to ensure all product releases meet or exceed defined quality goals.
• Architect, scale, and maintain comprehensive automated testing frameworks across web-based applications and windows services.
• Guide and mentor QA team members, sharing knowledge to enhance overall engineering competency and automation maturity.
• Analyze complex requirements, lead design reviews, and collaborate with Product, Development, and Scrum teams to ensure customer needs are met.
• Oversee system integration, functional, regression, volume, and performance testing using both manual and advanced automated techniques.
• Track, analyze, and report on defect metrics and test coverage to present quality findings to senior management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) and 7+ years in software quality assurance, with at least 2+ years in a senior, lead, or principal role.
• Extensive experience creating, maintaining, and scaling automation frameworks using Playwright and JMeter for performance testing.
• 5+ years of experience managing test plans and workflows using Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Deep understanding of Agile Scrum methodologies, iterative development, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Strong experience testing web-based applications, APIs, and Windows operating systems/services.
• Proven ability to gather and use defect metric data to optimize team workflows and report clear findings to management.
• Exceptional capacity to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and pivot quickly to meet high-priority business needs.

Verra Mobility Values

• Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
• Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
• Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
• Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.

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Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.