Senior Software QA Engineer

The Senior Software QA Engineer is a highly skilled software engineering role responsible for leading complex manual and automated testing initiatives across Ontada's product ecosystem. This role designs, builds, and optimizes automation frameworks; drives quality strategy within an Agile squad; mentors junior engineers; and ensures releases meet stringent quality, performance, and compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Lead test strategy, planning, and execution for complex products and releases.

• Drive the evolution of the test automation framework, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to QA Engineers and junior team members.

• Champion shiftleft testing practices and CI/CD quality gates across development squads.

• Collaborate with architecture and engineering leadership to define quality standards and automation best practices.

Automation & Framework Development

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced automated test suites (UI, API, backend, data validation).

• Build and enhance automation frameworks using tools such as Selenium, TOSCA, Playwright, or similar.

• Develop robust API automation using RestAssured, Postman scripts, or equivalent frameworks.

• Create effective test data strategies, including synthetic data generation and environment management.

Test Planning & Execution

• Author comprehensive, wellstructured test strategies, plans, and test cases.

• Lead exploratory testing efforts to uncover complex defects.

• Coordinate validation of deployments across multiple environments, ensuring endtoend readiness.

• Perform advanced backend testing across SQL/NoSQL database systems.

Collaboration & Agile Delivery

• Work closely with Product Owners to refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and ensure testability.

• Partner with developers, product teams, and DevOps to ensure highquality releases.

• Influence iteration planning, sprint commitments, and quality checkpoints.

• Coordinate with onshore/offshore QA teams to drive consistent delivery and quality standards.

Quality Governance & Compliance

• Ensure alignment with HIPAA and other regulatory/security requirements.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives for QA processes, tools, and documentation.

• Lead rootcause analysis and drive corrective actions for systemic quality issues.

Minimum Requirement

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.

Critical Skills

• 7+ years of progressive Software Quality Assurance experience, preferably in healthcare or regulated industries.

• 5+ years of handson test automation development experience using Selenium, JavaScript automation frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Jest), or similar.

• 5+ years of strong API testing and automation experience.

• 5+ years of backend testing experience using various database technologies.

• 1+ years testing AI/ML or GenAI systems (LLMs, recommendation engines, NLP pipelines, or MLOps) - or demonstrated delivery of AIadjacent quality frameworks (e.g., RAG evaluation, guardrails).

• Experience owning QA responsibilities for complex product areas with minimal oversight.

• Proven experience mentoring QA engineers and influencing technical direction.

Additional Skills

• 5+ years in Agile SDLC environments with strong exposure to CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong programming or scripting experience (Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.).

• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar) and build tools (Maven, Gradle, Ant).

• Deep understanding of QA methodologies, automation strategies, and quality metrics.

• Strong analytical, problemsolving, debugging, and decisionmaking abilities.

• Experience in Prompt design and prompt testing; negative testing for prompt injection/jailbreaks.

• RAG testing (embedding quality, retrieval accuracy/recall, chunk strategy validation).

• Familiarity with vector databases and semantic search evaluation.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

• Experience with Bitbucket, GitHub, Git Bash, or similar SCM tools.

• Experience with test management platforms (qTest, ALM, TestLink TestRail, etc.).

• Knowledge of healthcare software, data privacy, and compliance best practices is a plus.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently in a fastpaced environment.

Working Conditions

• Remote work location - Eastern or Central United States.

• Occasional travel up to 10%.

Candidates must be authorized to work in USA. Sponsorship is not available for this role.