Senior Software Quality Engineer

vclusterlabs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Job summary

vclusterlabs is seeking an experienced QA leader to own quality strategy across backend services and UI. You will design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks, and ensure reliable feedback through CI/CD and product decisions in a fast-evolving product.

In this remote-first role, you will collaborate with engineering and product teams to shape testable features, run exploratory testing to catch edge cases, and balance priorities while guiding QA as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of QA or software testing experience, including 2+ years in a senior role.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or JavaScript for automation.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD and integrating test suites (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Strong analytical, debugging, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to own and prioritize in ambiguity while balancing multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks for services and UI.
• Set testing strategy across features, aligning coverage with product goals.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD to provide timely feedback on changes.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to shape testable features and quality expectations.
• Run exploratory testing to uncover usability issues and edge cases not covered by automation.
• Investigate backend and infrastructure issues while balancing work across multiple projects.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation

CI/CD integration

Test automation

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

Role overview

Own software quality strategy across backend services and user interfaces for a rapidly evolving product. You will build and maintain automation that gives engineering teams reliable feedback, and bring a quality and testability perspective into product and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks for services and UI.
• Set testing strategy across features, connecting coverage to product goals.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines to provide timely feedback on changes.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to shape testable features and define quality expectations.
• Run exploratory testing to uncover usability issues, edge cases, and regressions missed by automation.
• Investigate backend and infrastructure problems while balancing work across multiple projects.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of QA or software testing experience, including 2 or more years in a senior or staff-level role.
• Strong practical programming skills in Go, Python, or JavaScript, including building automation or tools.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD and experience integrating test suites into systems such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Strong analytical, debugging, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to take ownership, work through ambiguity, and manage competing priorities.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and distributed systems, or the ability to learn these areas quickly.
• Regular use of AI tools in quality workflows, with sound judgment to verify their output.

Nice to have

• Experience testing tenant clusters or tenant isolation environments.
• Experience leading QA at a startup during rapid product growth.

Benefits and work setup

• Flexible work location and schedule; the role is described as remote-first.
• Compensation includes equity, and insurance options include health, dental, vision, and life coverage, with availability varying by country.