Senior Software QA Engineer – Hybrid & AI Testing

Vizient, Inc.; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Benefits package

Job summary

Vizient is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to lead quality practices that ensure the reliability, security, usability, and operational readiness of software applications and services.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product managers, business stakeholders, architects, data engineers, and other quality engineers to define quality strategies, establish testable requirements, and drive automated validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, QA, or related field.
• Six or more years of software quality engineering experience.
• Experience defining quality strategies for complex applications and services.
• Advanced experience with automated tests for web apps, APIs, integrations, and data workflows.
• Proficient with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or comparable framework.
• Experience testing REST APIs, authentication, authorization, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with data-level testing and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of accessibility, security, performance, and observability testing.
• Ability to analyze requirements and designs to identify risks and testability concerns.
• Strong communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality strategies for applications, APIs, data flows, integrations, and user experiences.
• Establish test approaches, quality standards, automation patterns, and risk-based validation practices.
• Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, designs, and technical approaches to identify ambiguity, risk, dependencies, and testability concerns.
• Design and maintain automated tests for web applications, APIs, integrations, workflows, and data-level validations.
• Develop end-to-end, integration, regression, smoke, functional, exploratory, performance, accessibility, and security tests as appropriate.
• Use Playwright or comparable tools to establish scalable web application test automation.
• Validate REST APIs, authentication, authorization, workflows, data exchanges, and distributed systems.
• Validate data across application, API, pipeline, and database layers.
• Design test scenarios using equivalence partitioning, boundary-value analysis, decision tables, state transitions, pairwise testing, and cause-and-effect analysis.
• Establish test data, test environment, and test execution practices that support reliable validation.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates for pull requests and deployments.
• Lead failure analysis, defect triage, root-cause analysis, and risk assessment.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve defects and improve design, testability, and reliability.
• Verify fixes and establish regression protection to prevent recurrence.
• Contribute to accessibility, security, performance, observability, and operational-readiness validation.
• Define evaluation approaches for AI-enabled capabilities, including accuracy, consistency, relevance, safety, explainability, and appropriate behavior.
• Use AI-assisted testing and development tools responsibly while validating outputs.
• Participate in design reviews, refinements, code reviews, demos, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to repository guidance, reusable test patterns, quality documentation, and the Software Factory workflow.
• Mentor quality engineers and developers and promote shared ownership of quality.

Skills

Quality engineering leadership

Automation testing

Playwright

REST API testing

CI/CD integration

Risk assessment

Team collaboration

Security testing

Accessibility testing

AI-enabled testing awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Vizient is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to lead quality practices that ensure the reliability, security, usability, and operational readiness of software applications and services.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product managers, business stakeholders, architects, data engineers, and other quality engineers to define quality strategies, establish testable requirements, and drive automated validation.