Senior Quality Engineer - Remote API & UI Automation Expert

Sophos; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work

Diversity networks

Volunteer days

Wellbeing days

Wellbeing webinars

Annual charity initiatives

Job summary

Sophos in the United States seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to champion quality across the Investigate & Respond product area. You will work autonomously across services, APIs, and user-facing workflows — helping teams catch issues early, build meaningful automated coverage, and deliver reliable customer experiences.

You will design, implement, and maintain automated tests, collaborate with engineers and product managers — from refinement through release — to identify risk, sharpen acceptance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering, SDET, or a closely related role.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining automated tests across API, service, and UI layers.
• Experience with Python and pytest for test automation.
• Experience with modern testing frameworks and automation practices.
• Strong API testing experience.
• The ability to build test strategies for ambiguous, cross-service, or high-risk changes.
• A self-directed working style — you take initiative, drive investigations to completion, and know when to pull others in.
• Clear, direct communication and comfort influencing decisions across engineering and product teams.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, test reporting, and test environment management.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the team’s quality strategy across functional, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test coverage using established frameworks and practices.
• Partner with engineers and product managers — from refinement through release — to identify risk, sharpen acceptance criteria, and build quality into every stage of delivery.
• Test complex workflows spanning distributed services, asynchronous processing, APIs, and web applications.
• Investigate production issues and customer-reported defects; translate findings into regression coverage and process improvements.
• Raise quality risks early and advocate for pragmatic solutions that protect the customer experience.
• Improve test reliability, execution speed, observability, and developer feedback loops.

Skills

5+ years experience

Automated testing

Python & Pytest

API testing

CI/CD

Communication

Go testing

GraphQL

Playwright

Tools

Playwright

Go testing

Go

GraphQL

Job description

Sophos in the United States seeks a Senior Quality Engineer to champion quality across the Investigate & Respond product area. You will work autonomously across services, APIs, and user-facing workflows — helping teams catch issues early, build meaningful automated coverage, and deliver reliable customer experiences.

You will design, implement, and maintain automated tests, collaborate with engineers and product managers — from refinement through release — to identify risk, sharpen acceptance