Staff QA Engineer - SaaS Security Posture (Remote)

IonQ, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is hiring a QA Engineer for our SaaS-based Quantum Security Posture Management platform. You will own product-level testing, focusing on functional correctness, regression coverage, and automation, ensuring quality across network modeling and security posture analysis.

The role collaborates with developers, builds automated UI/API tests, and contributes to CI/CD test integration. Remote-friendly with on-site Santa Clara presence and travel up to 15%.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software QA/testing for SaaS or enterprise products.
• Working knowledge of Layer 2/Layer 3 networking (VLANs, subnetting, routing, ACLs, NAT, firewall logic).
• Experience with manual and automated testing (Selenium, Playwright, Postman/Newman) and defect tracking tools (Jira).
• Comfortable testing REST APIs and validating JSON/data payloads.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to write clear, reproducible bug reports.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and execute test cases for platform features: network discovery, topology mapping, policy/rule analysis, posture scoring, alerting, and reporting.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and API testing across releases and sprints.
• Validate correctness of Layer 2/Layer 3 network modeling (VLANs, routing, ACLs, NAT, firewall rules).
• Build and maintain automated test suites (UI and API) to increase regression coverage and reduce manual testing effort.
• Set up and maintain test environments/labs with virtual networks and multi-vendor device configs.
• Log, triage, and track defects; work with engineering to reproduce, root‑cause, and verify fixes.
• Participate in sprint planning and release readiness reviews; provide a quality/risk perspective.
• Contribute to test strategy improvements, including shift-left testing and CI/CD test integration.
• Maintain clear, thorough test documentation.

Skills

QA testing

SaaS testing

REST API testing

Automated testing

Manual testing

Jira

Selenium

Playwright

Tools

Selinium

REST Assured

Pytest

Jira

Job description

IonQ, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is hiring a QA Engineer for our SaaS-based Quantum Security Posture Management platform. You will own product-level testing, focusing on functional correctness, regression coverage, and automation, ensuring quality across network modeling and security posture analysis.

The role collaborates with developers, builds automated UI/API tests, and contributes to CI/CD test integration. Remote-friendly with on-site Santa Clara presence and travel up to 15%.