[Remote] Senior QA Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Volt Labs is building the infrastructure layer behind modern business messaging, focusing on compliance and operational complexity. They are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to define test strategies and build automation infrastructure while collaborating with various teams to enhance quality standards as the platform scales.
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously improve QA strategy, processes, and standards across engineering and product workflows
- Design and build automated testing infrastructure for platform reliability and release confidence Not just execute tests, but build the systems that run them
- Define and maintain test plans, regression testing, and release validation processes
- Identify gaps in testing coverage and operational risk areas, and drive resolution
- Partner with Engineering and Product to set and enforce quality gates in the development and release workflow
- Own staging and QA environment management within AWS, including deployment of code into pre-production environments
- Document bugs clearly with reproducible steps and business impact context
- Drive observability, monitoring validation, and production issue analysis
- Lead API testing, workflow testing, and operational scenario validation with an emphasis on back-end platform and infrastructure coverage over UI testing
- Actively support peers through knowledge sharing, filling coverage gaps, and contributing to team-wide quality standards, not just owning your own test surface
- Leverage AI tooling to improve test generation, bug analysis, automation, documentation, and troubleshooting
- Build and maintain scalable QA documentation, standards, and operational playbooks
Skills
- Proven experience in senior QA engineering, software testing, or release management
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing lifecycles, and test strategy at the system level
- Experience building and owning automated testing frameworks and infrastructure, not just using them
- Strong API testing and back-end platform testing experience
- Ability to think strategically about operational risk, edge cases, and quality at scale
- Comfort with AWS environments and the ability to manage deployments into staging and QA environments independently
- Strong documentation and communication skills
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering and Product teams, with the credibility to influence quality standards
- Ability to operate independently and drive quality initiatives while actively supporting and collaborating with a small, high-trust team
- A collaborative, low-ego approach to peer feedback and shared ownership of quality
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership expectations
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical mindset
- Actual, hands-on experience with AI-enabled testing workflows and agentic tooling, ideally in an environment that has made the shift from traditional QA practices
- Experience testing high-volume platforms or messaging systems
- Hands-on experience with AWS services relevant to deployment and environment management (ECS, CodePipeline, CloudWatch, or similar)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms
- Experience with performance or load testing at scale
- Familiarity with SQL and database validation workflows
- Experience building QA automation infrastructure from the ground up
- Deep familiarity with agentic tooling and AI-assisted QA at the team or org level
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