Sr. QA Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Health savings account

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Renesas Electronics Corporation seeks a Senior QA Engineer for the Duro Design team in Los Angeles. You will define and implement quality strategies across all software layers, ensuring robust testing for frontend and backend systems. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in software quality engineering and strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern testing frameworks. The position includes a hybrid work arrangement and a competitive salary range of $150,000 to $175,000 annually.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software quality engineering or software engineering.
• Strong ownership of quality systems is required.
• Experience with modern testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the end-to-end quality strategy.
• Design scalable test infrastructure across various testing layers.
• Validate system-wide reliability by testing interfaces and APIs.

Skills

TypeScript

Quality systems design

React testing

PostgreSQL

CI/CD pipelines

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Vitest

Jest

Playwright

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

• 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 such as Percy, Chromatic, or BackstopJS.
• Familiarity with contract testing (Pact or similar).
• Experience defining release readiness criteria or quality SLAs.
• Experience working in AI‑augmented development environments.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $150,000 to $175,000 annually.
• Hybrid work arrangement: 3 days per week in the Los Angeles office.
• Full range of elective benefits including medical, dental, vision, health savings account, dependent care FSA, pre‑tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short‑term medical, paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued vacation.

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.