Senior Test Engineer — Automation & Quality Advocate

Fortra; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortra in the United States is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to develop and execute test strategies ensuring the quality, reliability, security, and usability of its software products. This role partners with Product Management, Software Engineering, and cross-functional teams to identify product risks, improve test coverage, investigate defects, and support successful product releases.

You will lead testing activities, mentor junior testers, and contribute to automation practices across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software QA experience.
• Experience creating test plans, cases, estimates, and risk-based testing.
• Experience testing enterprise software, SaaS, or complex technical apps.
• Strong experience with functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.
• Experience with test automation principles and at least one framework or tool.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to work independently with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop test strategies, estimates, plans, and coverage approaches for new features and product releases.
• Perform risk-based test analysis and communicate coverage, risks, and release readiness to stakeholders.
• Design and execute functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and non-functional testing.
• Develop and maintain automated tests using AI-assisted development tools to improve coverage and reliability.
• Investigate, reproduce, troubleshoot, and isolate complex defects.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management, and stakeholders during requirements and design reviews.
• Identify gaps and risks in requirements and designs.
• Participate in defect triage and determine severity, priority, root cause, and resolution.
• Coordinate test activities across testers and projects; provide estimates and recommendations.
• Maintain test cases, results, defects, and docs in test management systems.
• Contribute to testing standards, processes, templates, and knowledge management.

Skills

Test planning

Risk-based testing

Test automation

Defect tracking

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Automation framework

Job description

Fortra in the United States is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to develop and execute test strategies ensuring the quality, reliability, security, and usability of its software products. This role partners with Product Management, Software Engineering, and cross-functional teams to identify product risks, improve test coverage, investigate defects, and support successful product releases.

You will lead testing activities, mentor junior testers, and contribute to automation practices across