Senior Quality Engineer — Automation & Shift-Left Champion

Umain AB; Chicago (IL); In loco; USD 135.000 - 165.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health insurance

Flexible time off

Coaching & development plan

Descrizione del lavoro

Umain is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join our product and technology group in Chicago. You’ll drive quality through automation, building test frameworks, pipelines, and culture to deliver reliable software for global brands.

Based in Chicago with a minimum of 3 days in the office, you’ll partner with cross-functional teams, define test strategies, and own end-to-end quality from requirements through production. This role emphasizes shift-left testing and continuous improvement.

Competenze

• 5+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering, with both manual and automated testing.
• Proficient with at least one automation framework (Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium) and comfortable writing test code in TypeScript or Python.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into developer workflows.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies and a shift-left mindset.
• Collaborative team player with client-focused mindset; quality as shared responsibility.
• Curious and methodical with complex systems.

Mansioni

• Partner with clients, product managers, and engineers to define test strategies, plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Champion a shift-left approach across requirements, design, and code reviews.
• Convey risk, coverage, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Help shape Umain’s U.S. quality engineering culture and standards.
• Build, maintain, and scale automated test suites with Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing on every build.
• Advocate for a testing pyramid with unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Test web apps and APIs built on React/Next.js and Node.js/NestJS; use Postman for API testing.
• Perform thorough manual and exploratory testing across web and mobile platforms.
• Design reusable test cases in TestRail or Zephyr and log defects in Jira with clear reproduction steps.
• Explore AI-assisted testing tools for test generation and visual regression.

Conoscenze

QA Engineering

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

TypeScript

Python

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Shift-left

Cross-functional collaboration

Strumenti

TestRail

Zephyr

Jira

Postman

Git

Descrizione del lavoro

Umain is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join our product and technology group in Chicago. You’ll drive quality through automation, building test frameworks, pipelines, and culture to deliver reliable software for global brands.

Based in Chicago with a minimum of 3 days in the office, you’ll partner with cross-functional teams, define test strategies, and own end-to-end quality from requirements through production. This role emphasizes shift-left testing and continuous improvement.