Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development and consulting company that delivers custom software services for clients. The Senior Software QA Engineer will own quality for complex, data-driven web applications and websites, developing test strategies, executing hands-on and regression testing, partnering with agile development teams, coordinating client UAT, and improving QA practices.
Responsibilities
- Build test coverage that matches project risk, and communicate coverage decisions and tradeoffs to the team and client
- Take part in backlog refinement and story shaping, helping the team write testable acceptance criteria before development starts
- Plan test cases for user stories and features with the agile team
- Partner with developers throughout each sprint to catch issues early, reproduce defects clearly, and resolve them together rather than just handing them off
- Perform hands-on testing against acceptance criteria throughout each project
- Coordinate regression testing and scheduled client testing, using automation where it makes sense and earns its cost
- Keep quality status visible and current, so leads, product owners, and clients can see where things stand without having to ask
- Evaluate mid-project changes for testing impact
- Estimate QA effort for upcoming work, track your time accurately, and flag it early if test coverage and budget are in conflict
- Help improve our QA processes, making them more efficient and reliable
- Explore and apply AI-assisted testing tools and techniques, and bring what works back to the team in a usable way
- Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) directly with clients, explaining quality status and risk in terms non-technical stakeholders understand
- Other related duties as assigned
Skills
- Experience on an agile development team as a Quality Engineer, owning test strategy and execution across the full project lifecycle
- Judgment about where automation adds value and where hands-on testing is the better investment
- Experience writing comprehensive test plans and test cases, and adapting coverage as requirements change
- A solid understanding of how websites, web applications, APIs, databases, mobile apps, Windows apps, and the cloud work at a high level
- Ability to support multiple client projects at once, from embedded, sprint-based testing on active builds to lighter regression coverage on maintenance work
- Experience working within scoped budgets or billable-hours environments, with good judgment on where to prioritize testing effort
- Strong attention to detail, and the ability to work with teammates to find practical solutions to quality issues
- Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills
- Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or other agile work tools
- Experience using AI to speed up test design, test data generation, or defect analysis
- Test automation experience, particularly with Playwright
- Experience planning tests for large projects
- Previous consulting experience, independent or with a firm
- Microsoft stack technologies, such as C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure
- Content management systems, such as Umbraco
- Software development experience
Benefits
- 100% remote work
- Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want
- Flexible work schedule
- Extra compensation for work over 40 hours/week
- 100 hours per year to focus on professional development
- Clear career paths for employees who want to stay hands-on, with no management transition required
- Profit sharing bonus
- Medical insurance covering up to 84% of the monthly medical premium (HSA options available)
- HSA contribution of up to $200/month
- Dental and vision insurance covering up to 50% of monthly dental and vision premium costs
- 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Profit sharing bonus of up to 15% of salary paid quarterly
- Employee referral and customer referral bonuses
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent care and healthcare costs
- Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks
- Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month
- Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k
- PTO, standard holidays, and 2 floating holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs
- Remote-first company culture
- Long-term career development opportunities
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