Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Hp Iq; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance (long & short)

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Generous time off & parental leave

Job summary

HP IQ, HP’s new AI innovation lab in San Francisco, seeks a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to define test strategies across software and hardware teams. You’ll grow automation, improve testability, and partner across disciplines to raise quality in the AI era.

Join a fast-paced, human-centric team building reliable, scalable experiences that empower people to do their best work with delightful software and hardware integration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design comprehensive test strategies that align with product goals, architecture, and user experience.

Skills

Automation testing

Selenium

Playwright

Python

Manual testing

CI/CD familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CircleCI

API testing

Job description

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.

We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.

We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset.

By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work.

Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.

About the Role

The Quality Engineering team ensures every HP IQ experience is robust, reliable, and delightful to use. We are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to lead test strategy and quality initiatives across software and hardware teams. You’ll define and scale test automation, influence architecture for testability, and partner across disciplines to raise the bar for what quality means in the AI era.

What You Might Do

• Design comprehensive test strategies that align with product goals, technical architecture, and customer experience.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks for functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineers, product managers, UX, and design to embed quality from ideation through release.
• Define and drive key quality metrics, triage defect patterns, and surface actionable insights through dashboards and reports.
• Establish standards for test planning, execution, and documentation, mentoring QA engineers and championing best practices across teams.
• Build tooling and infrastructure to support continuous integration, faster feedback cycles, and scalable test coverage.
• Proactively identify future testing needs across cloud, edge, and device interfaces—shaping the long-term QA roadmap.

Essential Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with a proven record of raising quality bars in complex systems.
• Strong background in both manual and automated testing for customer-facing applications.
  Proficiency with test automation tools and scripting (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Python, or similar).
• Deep understanding of QA methodologies, metrics, and test architecture design.
• Experience programmatically validating product behavior and analyzing diagnostic signals from CI pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred Skills

• Experience testing AI-powered or edge-connected applications.
• Familiarity with backend service testing, distributed systems, and API validation.
• Strong communication skills that emphasize collaboration, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI).
• Passion for user experience, accessibility, and long-term product health.

Salary range: $120,000 - $188,000

Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills.

At HP IQ, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave ( US benefits overview )

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab, building the intelligence to empower humanity—reimagining how we work, create, and connect to shape the future of work.

• Innovative Work Help shape the future of intelligent computing and workplace transformation.
• Autonomy and Agility Work with the speed and focus of a startup, backed by HP’s scale.
• Meaningful Impact Build AI-powered solutions that help people and organisations thrive.
• Flexible Work Environment Freedom and flexibility to do your best work.
• Forward-Thinking Culture We learn fast, stay future-focused, and imagine what comes next—together.

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