Senior Software Quality Engineer

Adobe Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 153,200 - 221,750; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to establish standards for a new AI-first web product. You will build fast, reliable test systems for evolving AI workflows and ensure real-time performance, accessibility and cross-browser coverage.

Own end-to-end quality strategy, implement modern web test automation (Playwright/Cypress, TypeScript/JavaScript) and CI/CD test gates. Collaborate with engineering, product and design to embed quality early.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• 8+ years of customer-facing software quality/SDET experience.
• Automation experience with Playwright/Cypress and TS/JS; Python a plus.
• Experience designing test strategy for AI/ML/LLM-powered features.
• Strong API testing, performance/load testing, and observability tooling.
• Excellent collaboration and communication; influence engineers and PMs early in build.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and adapting to evolving tooling.
• Experience with creative tools, browser-based graphics, or real-time collaboration stacks.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality strategy for a new AI-first web app.
• Compose, build, and maintain modern web test automation (Playwright/Cypress, TS/JS).
• Stand up evaluation harnesses for automated workflows and safety checks.
• Ensure comprehensive quality for real-time web product: performance, accessibility, cross-browser/devices.
• Embed quality into CI/CD: release gates, reduce flake, leverage telemetry.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to embed testability early.

Skills

Collaboration & communication

Agile environment

Founding-team mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Job description

Overview

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to build and deliver outstanding digital experiences.

Our team is developing a new‑generation, AI‑first web application in an emerging field. This is a new product we are building from scratch, and quality engineering is a core founding‑team focus.

We seek a Senior Software Quality Engineer eager to establish standards for a modern web product. If you enjoy creating fast, reliable test systems for innovative web experiences and thrive on the uncertainty involved with workflows guided by AI, we'd love to connect.

What you’ll do

• Own the end‑to‑end quality strategy for a new AI‑first web application, spanning the prompt and agent layer, the in‑browser experience, and the generated output.
• Compose, build, and maintain modern web test automation (Playwright/Cypress, TypeScript/JavaScript) and the underlying infrastructure that keeps it fast, deterministic, and developer‑friendly.
• Stand up evaluation harnesses for automated workflows: golden prompt suites, regression baselines, model/version comparisons, hallucination and safety checks, and human‑in‑the‑loop review pipelines.
• Ensure comprehensive quality for a real‑time web product—performance, resilience, accessibility (WCAG), and cross‑browser/cross‑device coverage.
• Embed quality into CI/CD: build release gates that catch real regressions, reduce flake, and turn production telemetry into pre‑submit signal.
• Work closely with engineering, product, and design to build testability into the process early. Guide engineers on test strategy, automation patterns, and adopting a shift‑left outlook.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in customer‑facing software quality/SDET positions.
• Automation experience with modern web frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, or similar) and strong coding skills in TypeScript/JavaScript; comfort with Python is a plus.
• Experience designing test strategy for AI/ML/LLM‑powered features—prompt regression, evaluation datasets, model drift, timely‑injection and safety testing, or equivalent.
• Strong fundamentals in API testing, performance and load testing, and observability tooling (Datadog, Splunk, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
• Excellent collaboration and communication; able to influence engineers and PMs early in the build cycle.
• Embrace generative and AI‑assisted development workflows, and be eager to learn and adapt as the tooling continues to evolve.
• Thrive in a fast‑paced, agile, founding‑team environment with real ambiguity.
• Prior experience with creative tools, design‑to‑code, browser‑based graphics (Canvas/WebGL), or real‑time collaboration stacks.

Expected Pay Range

The U.S. pay range for this position is $113,400–$221,750 annually. In California, the pay range is $153,200–$221,750. Other potential incentives may include cash, benefits, and equity.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.

Accommodations

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