Senior Quality Assurance Engineer New

Hudl; Lexington (NE); On-site; USD 82,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudl is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our North American Sports product team. You will own quality end-to-end, building testing strategies and automation to ship reliable software for coaches and analysts.

You’ll design tests across UI, APIs, and data pipelines, automate with Playwright, and mentor teammates. You’ll partner with Engineering, Product and Design, supporting growth and hiring while championing user-focused quality and performance.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software testing across API, backend and frontend.
• Hands-on experience with automation and Playwright.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript for automation tasks.
• Proven ability to drive quality initiatives in a squad.
• Ability to analyze data and measure outcomes to reduce risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality initiatives and drive testing strategy for your squad.
• Test across UI, APIs, services and data pipelines at scale.
• Design and implement reliable automated checks with Playwright.
• Mentor teammates and raise quality standards across the team.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product and Design; support hiring.

Skills

Quality focus

Technical depth

Leadership

Investigative rigour

User focus

AI-powered working

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Playwright

Python

TypeScript

Job description

Austin, TX, United States; Chicago, IL United States; Dallas, TX, United States; Kansas City, MO, United States; Lexington, KY, United States; Lincoln, NE, United States; Omaha, NE, United States

At Hudl, we build great teams. We hire the best of the best to ensure you’re working with people you can constantly learn from. 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; the influence of inspiring coaches; and the opportunities to reach new heights. 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.

Ready to join us?

Your Role

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.

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll:

• 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.
• Test across the stack. Design and execute tests spanning front-end UI, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines — validating transformations, service outputs, and complex logic at scale.
• Automate with intent. Make informed decisions about what, when, and how to automate. Use Playwright and scripting to build reliable, maintainable automated checks that keep pace with development.
• Mentor and grow others. 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.
• Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design, contribute to hiring, and invest in your own professional development.

Location

While local candidates in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska are prioritized, we’re open to remote applicants who reside in one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Must-Haves

• Quality focus. You see the big picture and use it to drive improvements in both quality and velocity.
• Technical depth. 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.
• A track record of leadership. 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.
• Investigative rigour. You dig to root causes of complex problems, back your findings with data, and measure outcomes.
• User focus. 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• Performance testing exposure. Familiarity with load, stress, and scalability testing concepts and tools (e.g. JMeter) for validating API and backend performance.
• Sports knowledge. 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 relevant degree or equivalent experience. A bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Our Role

• Champion work-life harmony. We’ll give you the flexibility you need in your work life (e.g., flexible vacation time, company‑wide holidays and timeout (meeting‑free) days, remote work options and more) so you can enjoy your personal life too.
• Guarantee autonomy. We have an open, honest culture and we trust our people from day one. Your team will support you, but you’ll own your work and have the agency to try new ideas.
• Encourage career growth. We’re lifelong learners who encourage professional development. We’ll give you tons of resources and opportunities to keep growing.
• Provide an environment to help you succeed. We’ve invested in our offices, designing incredible spaces with our employees in mind. But whether you’re at the office or working remotely, we’ll provide you the tech stack and hardware to do your best work.
• Support your mental and physical health. We care about our employees’ wellbeing. 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.
• Contribute to your 401(K). Yep, that’s free money. We’ll match up to 4% of your own contribution.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is displayed below—starting salaries will typically fall near the middle of this range.

We make compensation decisions based on an individual's experience, skills and education in line with our internal pay equity practices.

Base Salary Range

$82,000 - $137,000 USD

Inclusion at Hudl

Hudl is an equal opportunity employer. Through our actions, behaviors and attitude, we’ll create an environment where everyone, no matter their differences, feels like they belong.

We offer resources to ensure our employees feel safe bringing their authentic selves to work, including employee resource groups and communities. But we recognize there’s ongoing work to be done, which is why we track our efforts and commitments in annual inclusion reports.

We also know imposter syndrome is real and the confidence gap can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply—we’d love to hear from you.

Voluntary self-identification, gender and race

We'd like to know how well we're doing to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion in our recruitment processes. To help us reach this goal, we'd appreciate if you'd take our diversity questionnaire. Your voluntary choice to complete it will create a separate, confidential record of your name, where you learned about the role you applied for, and information about protected characteristics (UK: the Equity Act 2010).

This information will be automatically removed from your profile prior to reviewing your application. Your data is kept strictly confidential and won't be used as a part of the selection process. We'll only use it to measure our recruitment activity and to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees.

U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Comp letion is voluntary)

Individuals seeking employment at Hudl are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements.

Completion of the form is entirely voluntary . Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

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• Hudl and its affiliates act as data controllers in relation to the personal data Hudl collects in connection with its recruiting and hiring processes, as well as with data subprocessors engaged by Hudl to help manage those processes. Hudl’s headquarters and its sub processes are located in the USA. If you are located outside of the USA, your personal data will be transferred to the USA once you submit it through our careers site.
• Diversity information is defined by the DPA as “sensitive”. The information you give will be held on both manual and electronic systems by Hudl.