Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

** This is an opportunity to join our team of top-notch engineers, including software developers, architects, and quality assurance engineers. This position is 100% remote, indefinitely. **

Emergent Software is looking for a Senior Software QA Engineer who is smart, passionate, and efficient. You'll own quality on complex, data-driven, web-based applications and websites, working closely with developers, product owners, and clients throughout each project. This role is a great fit for self-starters with strong communication skills, solid work ethic, and the ability to take part in every stage of the agile software development life cycle.

Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software

• Work closely with other talented engineers and team members. Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about.

• Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want 

• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or whenever you work best 

• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work! 

• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with software solutions. 

• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development. We invest in your growth! 

• Grow your career without leaving the tech track. At Emergent Software, deep technical expertise is valued as much as leadership, with clear career paths for those who want to stay hands-on, no management transition required.

• Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful 

• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave 

Primary Duties

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Nice to Have Experience

• 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.

Our Vetting Process

At Emergent Software, we work hard to find the best Quality Assurance Engineers capable of helping to deliver high quality software for our clients. If you think you’re one of those, please understand that the effort put into this by people like yourself helps us be successful in surrounding you with other top-notch engineers. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position:

1. Application (5 minutes)

2. Online Assessment (30-40 minutes)

3. Website Testing Challenge (60 minutes)

4. Initial Phone Interview (30-45 minutes)

5. Final Interview (60-90 minutes)

6. Job Offer!

Benefits Package Details

• Medical Insurance: up to 84% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)

• HSA Contribution: up to $200/month

• Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs

• 401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary

• Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly

• Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week

• Employee referral & customer referral bonuses

• Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & 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, 2 floating holidays

• Paid parental leave

• Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs

About Emergent Software

Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development and consulting company serving clients across the country and beyond. We are building a team of talented software developers, database architects, UX designers, quality engineers, and project managers capable of developing high quality custom software services for our clients.

We are a remote-first company

From our inception, we offered a remote-friendly culture supporting work flexibility beyond the norm. When the pandemic of 2020 hit, all we had to do was clean out the fridge and the shift to working fully remote began. Seeing this as an opportunity, we shifted to being a remote-first company and hiring people from anywhere. We still offer that Minnesota-nice, Midwest friendly attitude but now with people all over treated the same whether they know what the skyway system is or not.

Your career grows with us

Working with talented engineers on interesting projects makes this an engaging work environment for people passionate about software development. Learning by working directly with our experienced team, utilizing our staff development program, and solving complex problems on a variety of projects provide ample long-term career development opportunities.

At Emergent Software, your ideas will be heard, you will grow exponentially as a master of your craft, and you will enjoy working other dedicated team members to deliver software solutions for our clients.

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