Senior Engineer, QE
AlphaSense
IndiaremotePosted 10 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Level Required: 5+ years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering roles
- Notable requirement: Expert-level experience with Playwright or comparable browser automation frameworks
Role overview
As a Senior Engineer, QE, you own test strategy and coverage for your team's features and act as a strategic quality partner to the engineers who build them. You design test plans, build and evolve automation frameworks, and embed quality-by-design, partnering closely with developers, product managers, and platform teams to define test requirements, guide teams toward sustainable quality practices, and help ship with confidence at velocity.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute test strategies across UI, API, and service layers to ensure comprehensive coverage.
- Develop and maintain reliable automation frameworks and performance testing suites.
- Utilize AI-assisted tools and agentic workflows to accelerate testing and debugging cycles.
- Lead risk assessments, release validations, and root-cause analyses for critical issues.
- Implement shift-left practices and enforce quality gates within development teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering roles
- Deep proficiency in testing TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend ecosystems (React, Webpack, or similar).
- Expert-level experience with Playwright or comparable browser automation frameworks (Cypress, Selenium WebDriver) for end-to-end testing.
- Strong experience with unit and component testing frameworks such as Vitest, Jest, or React Testing Library.
- Proven track record of designing and building test automation frameworks from scratch or significantly evolving existing ones at scale.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, Gitlab or similar) and how to integrate and optimize test suites within them.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude for accelerating test authoring, code review, and debugging.
- Hands-on experience with Allure or similar test reporting/analytics platforms.
Nice to have
- Understanding of AI/ML-powered products and the unique testing challenges they present (non-deterministic outputs, data quality, model evaluation).
- Experience in SaaS, fintech, or market intelligence domains.
- Familiarity with performance and load testing tools (k6, Lighthouse, Artillery).
- Familiarity with visual regression testing (Percy, Chromatic, Playwright visual comparisons).
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
Additional details
- About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.
- The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland.
- AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.
- In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.
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- Originally posted on Himalayas