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Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Emergent Software

WorldwideremotePosted 22 days ago
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Key highlights

  • 100% remote, indefinite
  • Profit-sharing up to 15% of salary
  • 100 hours/year professional development
  • Medical insurance covers up to 84% of premiums
  • Senior-level agile QA role with client collaboration
  • AI-assisted testing exploration encouraged

Role overview

Emergent Software seeks a Senior Software QA Engineer to own quality for complex, data-driven web applications and websites. This 100% remote role involves collaborating with developers, product owners, and clients throughout agile projects. Ideal candidates are self-starters with strong communication skills and a passion for solving complex problems through software solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Build test coverage aligned with project risk and communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders
  • Participate in backlog refinement and define testable acceptance criteria
  • Plan test cases for user stories and features with agile teams
  • Collaborate with developers during sprints to catch and resolve defects early
  • Execute hands-on testing against acceptance criteria
  • Coordinate regression testing and client testing (using automation judiciously)
  • Maintain visible/current quality status for leads, product owners, and clients
  • Evaluate mid-project changes for testing impact
  • Estimate QA effort, track time, and flag coverage/budget conflicts
  • Improve QA processes for efficiency and reliability
  • Explore/apply AI-assisted testing tools and share effective techniques
  • Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with clients, explaining quality status non-technically
  • Support multiple client projects simultaneously (active builds to maintenance work)

Requirements

  • Agile team experience as a Quality Engineer, owning test strategy/execution end-to-end
  • Judgment for balancing automation vs. manual testing investments
  • Experience writing comprehensive test plans/cases and adapting to changing requirements
  • High-level understanding of websites, web apps, APIs, databases, mobile/Windows apps, and cloud
  • Ability to manage multiple client projects with varying testing needs
  • Experience working within scoped budgets/billable hours
  • Strong attention to detail and collaborative problem-solving skills
  • Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or similar agile tools
  • AI application for test design, data generation, or defect analysis
  • Test automation experience (especially Playwright)
  • Large project test planning experience
  • Consulting experience (independent or firm)
  • Microsoft stack familiarity (C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure)
  • Content management system experience (e.g., Umbraco)
  • Software development experience

Benefits

  • 100% remote work, indefinitely
  • Flexible work schedule (work when most productive)
  • Paid overtime for hours beyond 40/week
  • 100 hours/year dedicated professional development time + training costs
  • Profit-sharing bonus (up to 15% of salary quarterly)
  • Medical insurance (up to 84% coverage) + HSA options + $200/month HSA contribution
  • Dental/vision insurance (50% coverage)
  • 401(k) match (up to 4% of salary)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short-term disability ($500/week for 12 weeks)
  • Long-term disability (up to $6,000/month)
  • Group life/AD&D insurance ($50k)
  • PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays
  • Employee/customer referral bonuses
  • Dependent care/healthcare FSAs

Additional details

  • Vetting process includes: application, online assessment, website testing challenge, phone interview, final interview
  • Remote-first company since inception (pre-pandemic)
  • Career growth opportunities without management transition (technical track valued)
  • Minnesota-based culture with nationwide remote team
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