Senior Quality Engineer: AI Tools & Observability

SkySpecs; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SkySpecs is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to shape the Horizon platform, building quality tooling, telemetry, and AI-enabled testing capabilities across frontend, backend, and production systems. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design testable features, establish observability, and raise the bar for release confidence.

The role emphasizes hands-on work, AI-assisted workflows, and continuous improvement of quality signals, dashboards, and testing strategies in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and maintaining quality platforms, automated testing systems, developer tooling, or similar engineering systems for production software.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and systems-thinking.
• Deep understanding of software quality across testing, observability, application performance, and production systems.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated testing frameworks, quality infrastructure, CI/CD quality gates, and engineering feedback systems.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated quality solutions across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and production systems.
• Experience using production telemetry, application performance monitoring, session replay, or similar tools to identify and prioritize quality improvements.
• Ability to independently drive quality initiatives from concept through implementation.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a cross-functional team of technical and non-technical contributors.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, and a track record of evolving how you use them.
• Sound judgment when using AI tools, including reviewing and correcting agent-generated tests and code.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our quality platform, infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling.
• Partner on solution design and quality strategy, including clear acceptance criteria and testing plans.
• Improve Horizon and engineering systems, measurement of user experience, and release health.

Skills

Quality engineering

Observability

CI/CD

Automated testing

AI-assisted development

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

GitLab

Auth0

Grafana

Terraform

Kafka

Node.js

TypeScript

Apollo GraphQL

React

Ant Design

Vitest

Playwright

PostgreSQL

Job description

SkySpecs is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to shape the Horizon platform, building quality tooling, telemetry, and AI-enabled testing capabilities across frontend, backend, and production systems. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design testable features, establish observability, and raise the bar for release confidence.

The role emphasizes hands-on work, AI-assisted workflows, and continuous improvement of quality signals, dashboards, and testing strategies in a