Sr. QA Engineer

Renesas Electronics; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to architect and implement quality strategies in Los Angeles. This hybrid role focuses on defining end-to-end quality processes, designing scalable test infrastructure, and collaborating cross-functionally. Candidates should have over 8 years in quality engineering, a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, and strong skills in TypeScript and modern testing frameworks. The position offers an annual salary range of $150,000 to $175,000.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software quality or engineering.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and testing frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and data integrity validation.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve end-to-end quality strategy.
• Design scalable test infrastructure using modern frameworks.
• Validate system-wide reliability across multiple layers.

Skills

Software quality engineering

CI/CD pipelines

TypeScript

React testing

PostgreSQL

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Vitest

Jest

Playwright

GitHub Actions

Job description

• Compensation: USD 150,000 - USD 175,000 - yearly

Job Description

About the role:

The Senior QA Engineer on the Duro Design team defines, builds, and scales the quality systems that ensure hardware engineers can rely on our platform every day. You’ll architect and implement quality strategy across our modern stack—from frontend interfaces to backend services—embedding confidence into how we design, ship, and operate software. This role partners closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teammates in a fast-moving, highly autonomous environment.

We’re looking for engineers who think systemically about risk, embrace experimentation, and leverage modern AI-powered workflows to elevate quality across the organization. This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles, CA (3 days per week in office).

A day in the life of our Senior QA Engineer:

• Quality Strategy Ownership: Define and evolve our end-to-end quality strategy, determining what gets tested, at which layer, and how coverage maps to real user risk.
• Test Architecture: Design and maintain scalable test infrastructure across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers using modern frameworks such as Vitest, Jest, and Playwright.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner early with product and engineering teams to ensure features are testable by design and quality is embedded before code reaches production.
• Full Stack Validation: Validate React interfaces, GraphQL APIs, and PostgreSQL data integrity to ensure system-wide reliability.
• CI/CD Optimization: Architect and refine test pipelines in GitHub Actions (or similar) to balance speed, coverage, and deployment confidence.
• Experimentation & Analytics: Leverage PostHog session replays, feature flags, and analytics to detect regressions, surface edge cases, and proactively identify risk.
• AI-Driven Quality Engineering: Utilize AI-augmented development workflows to generate test scaffolding, explore edge cases, and increase velocity while maintaining rigorous standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead regression analysis and incident retrospectives, transforming defects into systemic improvements that strengthen long-term product resilience.

Qualifications

Required:

• 8+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering or software engineering with strong ownership of quality systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern testing frameworks such as Vitest, Jest, and Playwright
• Experience testing React frontends and GraphQL-based APIs
• Experience working with PostgreSQL and validating data integrity across service layers
• Hands‑on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Strong architectural thinking with the ability to design scalable, maintainable quality systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort operating in autonomous, fast‑paced environments
• A product mindset with the ability to anticipate risk across the full feature lifecycle

Nice to Have:

• Experience building PLM, PDM, or hardware/manufacturing industry software
• Background in performance, load, or stress testing
• Experience with visual regression testing tools (Percy, Chromatic, BackstopJS)
• Familiarity with contract testing (Pact or similar)
• Experience defining release readiness criteria or quality SLAs
• Experience working in AI‑augmented development environments

Additional Information

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $175,000 annually.

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days per week in our Los Angeles office)

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.