Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Position Overview:

We’re looking for a Senior QA Automation Analyst who is passionate about building reliable software through automation-first testing. In this role, you’ll design, create, manage, execute, and automate test suites across web and mobile applications, partnering closely with product, design, and engineering. You’ll leverage Playwright and modern CI/CD practices in Azure DevOps/GitHub, with deployments and environments spanning AWS and Azure. We are initiating AI-assisted test automation on the team so experience in AI tools is a plus.  You’ll be part of a fast-paced, collaborative team driven by a startup mindset and focused on delivering innovative solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for web and mobile using Playwright (or alternatives like: Cypress or Puppeteer) and Appium (mobile), emphasizing reliability, maintainability, and speed.
• Create comprehensive test strategies (functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, cross-browser/device, accessibility, performance).
• Shift-left testing: Collaborate with developers on unit & API test strategies; participate in story grooming, acceptance criteria refinement, and testability reviews.
• Build CI/CD quality gates in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions; integrate test results, flaky-test detection, and quality metrics dashboards.
• Manage test environments and data across AWS & Azure, including test fixtures, mocking, and service virtualization.
• Execute and triage automated and exploratory tests; isolate defects with clear repro steps, logs, video, and screenshots.
• Continuously improve UX quality: Validate usability, accessibility (WCAG), responsiveness, and visual consistency; partner with design for testable UI patterns.
• Contribute to standards: Coding style, page object models, fixtures, test data strategies, reliability practices, and documentation.
• Leverage modern tooling (e.g., BrowserStack/Sauce Labs) for cross-device coverage; use AI-assisted tools for generating test cases, locators, and flakiness analysis where appropriate.
• Metrics & reporting: Track and communicate coverage, defect leakage, mean time to detect/resolve (MTTD/MTTR), flaky-test rate, and release readiness.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 4 + years of QA/Quality Engineering experience focused on test automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript preferred) for web UI, API, and component testing.
• Solid experience with Azure DevOps (pipelines, test plans) and/or GitHub (Actions, pull request checks), including integrating automated tests into CI/CD.
• Practical knowledge of cloud environments: provisioning test environments, secrets management, and pipelines in AWS and Azure.
• Experience automating tests for mobile apps (at least one: Appium, Detox, Espresso, or XCTest).
• Proficiency with API testing (e.g., Playwright API, Postman/Newman, REST/GraphQL) and contract testing (e.g., Pact).
• Familiarity with cross-browser/device testing using BrowserStack or Sauce Labs.
• Strong debugging skills: network tab, HARs, logs, tracing, screenshots/videos, and r