Sr. QA Engineer

Ansira; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ansira is seeking a seasoned Senior QA Engineer to lead quality efforts for 3-tier applications. You will own test plans, automate tests with Selenium, TestNG, and Rest Assured, and drive QA processes across the development cycle.

You will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams, analyze defects and metrics, and ensure releases meet the definition of done. Experience with AI tools (Playwright, Claude) is a plus, as is studying production defects for root cause analysis.

Qualifications

• Experience owning QA processes and test plans.
• Ability to analyze quality metrics and defect data.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Drafts and owns test plans, scenarios, and cases.
• Automates smoke and regression tests and reviews code.
• Monitors defect metrics and performs root cause analysis.
• Collaborates with Product and Engineering to validate test scripts.
• Participates in release readiness and risk analysis.

Skills

QA processes

Test planning

Test execution

Tools

Selenium

TestNG

Rest Assured

Playwright

Claude

Job description

A seasoned Senior QA Engineer with extensive experience in 3-tier applications, bug tracking tools, and expertise in QA automation (Selenium, TestNG, Rest Assured) is sought to lead the assurance of product quality. This role involves actively participating in all QA processes, owning test plans and test cases, automating tests, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. The Senior QA Engineer should be well-versed in gathering and collating quality metrics, defect analysis, and suggesting improvements for the continuous enhancement of product quality.

• Practices all QA processes and drafts, maintains, and owns test plans, scenarios, and test cases.
• Provides sign-off for every release and ensures no leakage of defects.
• Automates smoke and regression test cases, performs code reviews, and validates production defects using AI tools(Playwright preferable).
• Proficient in using AI tools such as Claude with Basic/Advance understanding of Prompt Engineering and Agent Creation.
• Actively monitors QA and defect metrics, performing defect analysis on a regular cadence.
• Validates production defects aimed towards root cause analysis
• Demonstrates domain knowledge and awareness of business requirements, understanding the project’s contribution to overall success.
• Ensures features are complete and tested based on the definition of “done.”
• Takes responsibility for the overall quality of the application.
• Estimates tasks, evaluates impediments, and guides the team to ensure successful sprints.
• Responds to support requests from clients, Product, and Customer Success Teams.
• Collaborates with Product Management and Software Engineering teams to develop and validate manual and automated test scripts.
• Actively participates in discussions related to implementation approach and proactively looks for impediments.
• Provides risk analysis to the Scrum technology team for any new/updated feature.
• Participates in the release management process voicing overall readiness for product deployment
• Gathers and collates quality metrics and reporting to QA Leadership
• Performs test plans and test execution reviews for every sprint and provides sign off for every release