Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Hudl; Iowa Center (IA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Remote work options

Tech stack provided

Employee assistance program

Medical insurance

Pay equity practices

Job summary

Hudl seeks an experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to own end-to-end quality for the North American Sports product team. You will design automated testing strategies for APIs, data-heavy backends, and front-end validation, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Design to ship reliable software.

You will coach teammates, drive quality discussions, and apply AI-powered testing approaches to improve efficiency and coverage across the squad.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software testing experience across full stack — API, backend, data-heavy systems, and frontend validation.
• Owned quality for a squad, led testing initiatives end-to-end and defined success criteria.
• Proficient in automation frameworks like Playwright and languages such as Python or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality initiatives and drive risk-based testing strategies for your squad.
• Design and execute tests across UI, APIs, back-end services, and data pipelines.
• Coach teammates and raise the quality bar across the team, influencing overall quality culture.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design; contribute to hiring and professional development.
• Collaborate with teams in North America; support remote applicants while prioritizing local candidates in Nebraska.

Skills

Software testing

API testing

Frontend validation

Data pipelines

Quality strategy

AI tooling

Performance testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Playwright

Python

TypeScript

Job description

You’re trusted to get your work done your way while testing the limits of what’s possible and what’s next. We work hard to provide a culture where everyone feels supported, and our employees feel it—their votes helped us become one of Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces.

We think of ourselves as the team behind the team, supporting the lifelong impact sports can have: the lessons in teamwork and dedication; That’s why we help teams from all over the world see their game differently. Our products make it easier for coaches and athletes at any level to capture video, analyze data, share highlights and more.

We're seeking an experienced, automation-focused Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our North American Sports product team. This team develops insightful analytics and Recruit products for American Football, helping high-level coaches and analysts make faster, data-driven decisions on player performance and talent acquisition.

As the testing expert within your cross-functional squad, you'll own quality end-to-end — building the strategies and automation that ensure we're shipping software our users love. You'll drive quality discussions, challenge the team to maintain high standards, and be the advocate for reliability and performance at every stage of delivery.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Lead quality initiatives. Build risk-based testing strategies tailored to your squad's architecture, drive quality discussions in scrum ceremonies, challenge defect priorities, and continuously look for ways to improve practices and keep your squad's quality processes ahead of the curve.
• Design and execute tests spanning front-end UI, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines — validating transformations, service outputs, and complex logic at scale.
• Use your technical depth and quality instincts to coach teammates, raise the bar for quality standards across the team, and influence how the whole squad thinks about quality.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design, contribute to hiring, and invest in your own professional development.
• While local candidates in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska are prioritized, we’re open to remote applicants who reside in one of the following states: Quality focus. You see the big picture and use it to drive improvements in both quality and velocity.
• 4+ years of software testing experience with hands‑on expertise across the full stack — API testing, backend and data‑heavy systems, and front‑end validation — plus proficiency in automation frameworks like Playwright and languages like Python or TypeScript.
• You’ve owned quality for a squad, led testing initiatives end‑to‑end, defined success criteria, and designed approaches that measurably reduce risk in production.
• You dig to root causes of complex problems, back your findings with data, and measure outcomes.
• You think critically about the user experience and let that understanding shape your testing approach.
• AI‑powered working. You actively use AI tools in your day‑to‑day workflow — for test case creation, failure diagnosis, documentation, and beyond — and look for new ways to apply them to raise the team's efficiency.
• Performance testing exposure. Familiarity with load, stress, and scalability testing concepts and tools (e.g. JMeter) for validating API and backend performance.
• Passion for or experience in Basketball, American Football or Ice Hockey — whether as an athlete, coach, or fan — and an appreciation for the unique challenges of sports technology.
• A bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits and Perks

• flexible vacation time, company-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) days, remote work options and more so you can enjoy your personal life too.
• Provide an environment to help you succeed . But whether you’re at the office or working remotely, we’ll provide you the tech stack and hardware to do your best work.
• Our Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups and fitness partner Peerfit have you covered.
• Cover your medical insurance . We have multiple plans to pick from to ensure you’ll have the coverage you (and your dependents) want, including vision, dental, fertility healthcare and family forming benefits.
• We make compensation decisions based on an individual's experience, skills and education in line with our internal pay equity practices.

Inclusion

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