Senior Quality Engineer — Remote, AI-Driven Quality & Automation

Worky; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity with refresh grants

35 days PTO

Job summary

Circle is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to shape how quality is built into our product. You’ll work across Engineering, Product and Design, exploring ideas, identifying risks and helping teams ship with confidence in a fully remote environment.

You’ll lead automation across web and APIs, enable quality strategy, and collaborate across multiple teams, while leveraging AI-assisted tooling to improve planning, debugging, and release confidence.

Qualifications

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English (CEFR C2 or equivalent).
• Strong web test automation experience with Playwright, TypeScript, or comparable technologies.
• Good knowledge of API and integration testing.
• Strong exploratory and risk-based testing skills.
• Confidence reading application code and debugging complex technical issues.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution.
• Strong product judgement. You care about the experience being built, not just whether it technically works.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and product areas, switching context and getting up to speed quickly.
• Able to operate with a high degree of autonomy and identify where your input will create the most value.
• Confident asking questions, challenging assumptions and influencing decisions constructively.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach to balancing quality, risk and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Partner with multiple product teams across different areas of Circle.
• Get involved early in product, design and engineering discussions.
• Identify meaningful product, technical and customer risks.
• Bring a quality perspective to user journeys, UI/UX, requirements and technical approaches.
• Shape pragmatic, risk-based testing approaches based on the change and its potential impact.
• Build and maintain reliable automated coverage across web, APIs and integrations.
• Make thoughtful decisions about what to automate, where to test it and what provides the strongest signal.
• Investigate complex failures across the application, APIs, CI pipelines and supporting systems.
• Work with engineers to improve testability, reliability and developer feedback loops.
• Use modern engineering and AI-assisted tooling where it improves planning, automation, debugging or investigation.
• Identify recurring or systemic quality issues and drive improvements across teams.
• Use bugs, production issues and quality signals to improve prevention, not just detection.
• Help teams make informed decisions about risk, coverage and release confidence.
• Share knowledge and approaches that strengthen quality ownership across Engineering.

Skills

English communication

Playwright

TypeScript

API testing

Exploratory testing

CI/CD

Debugging

Product judgment

Cross-team collaboration

Autonomy

Questioning assumptions

Delivery balance

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

Job description

Circle is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to shape how quality is built into our product. You’ll work across Engineering, Product and Design, exploring ideas, identifying risks and helping teams ship with confidence in a fully remote environment.

You’ll lead automation across web and APIs, enable quality strategy, and collaborate across multiple teams, while leveraging AI-assisted tooling to improve planning, debugging, and release confidence.