Senior Software Quality Engineer (Hybrid)

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

Position Summary

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

This role will work closely with software engineers, product managers, business stakeholders, architects, data engineers, and other quality engineers to define quality strategies, establish testable requirements, automate validation, identify risks, and guide delivery of small, independently demonstrable increments.

The role will be part of a team that leverages AI-DLC to support software development through structured work items, repository guidance, automated implementation, pull requests, testing, and continuous feedback.

Job Description

This role will require working in the Irving, TX office 3 days per week. In addition, there will be an in-person interview required.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead quality strategies for applications, APIs, data flows, integrations, and user experiences.


• Establish appropriate 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, event-driven integrations, and distributed systems.


• Validate data across application, API, pipeline, and database layers.


• Design test scenarios using techniques such as 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 and repeatable 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 system 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 and agentic capabilities, including accuracy, consistency, relevance, safety, explainability, and appropriate behavior.


• Use AI-assisted testing and development tools responsibly while validating their outputs.


• Participate in technical design, refinement, code reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, 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 throughout the development lifecycle.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Quality Assurance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.


• Six or more years of experience in software quality engineering, software testing, test automation, or a related field.


• Demonstrated experience defining and implementing quality strategies for complex applications and services.


• Strong experience developing and maintaining automated tests for web applications, APIs, integrations, and data workflows.


• Advanced experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or a comparable test automation framework.


• Experience testing REST APIs, authentication, authorization, event-driven integrations, and distributed systems


• Experience with test planning, test design, defect management, regression testing, and root-cause analysis.


• Experience validating data using SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.


• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and delivery workflows.


• Experience with data-level testing, event-driven systems, asynchronous processing, or distributed applications.


• Experience with accessibility, security, performance, resilience, and observability testing.


• Familiarity with test automation frameworks, reusable test utilities, test data management, quality reporting, and test architecture.


• Strong understanding of software development, testing, and quality engineering lifecycles.


• Strong understanding of application security, secure test practices, accessibility, performance, and observability validation.


• Ability to analyze requirements and technical designs to identify risks, gaps, dependencies, and testability concerns.


• Strong problem-solving, communication, documentation, leadership, and collaboration skills.


• Experience delivering quality validation incrementally through small, independently testable units of work.


• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, sound judgment, attention to detail, and commitment to product quality.


• Ability to receive feedback, apply it, and continuously improve individual and team practices.


• Commitment to collaboration, customer focus, integrity, inclusion, and engineering excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka, or Azure.


• Experience with test management tools such as Azure DevOps Test Plans or comparable platforms.


• Experience with GitHub Actions, Harness, Kubernetes, AKS, or other CI/CD and cloud technologies


• Experience testing AI-enabled applications, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, or AI-generated outputs.


• Experience working in an AI-native or Software Factory development model.

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $88,900.00 to $155,500.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

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