About this roleWe're looking for a senior, highly autonomous
QA Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team at Speak. You'll own QA coverage for assigned feature team end-to-end: test planning, execution, and release sign-off. Beyond hands-on testing, this is a high-ownership IC role for someone who actively looks for smarter ways to scale coverage through tooling, automation, and AI-powered workflows, not just manual effort.
What you'll be doing- Test planning and execution
- Own QA coverage for 1~2 pods: analyze requirements, write test plans and test cases, execute across iOS, Android, webapp, and backend.
- Conduct functional, regression, and design testing. Document and track defects in Qase and Linear
- Participate in pod weeklies and collaborate with PMs and Engineers to clarify requirements and catch issues before they reach QA
- Risk analysis and release readiness
- Assess risk across features and releases: identify what needs the most coverage, what can be deferred, and what's a blocker
- Own release candidate sign-off for your pods, with a clear point of view on what's ready to ship and what isn't
- Surface patterns in defects and coverage gaps to improve how the team plans and prioritizes QA work
- Scale QA intelligently
- Identify what's automatable vs. what requires human judgment and act on that distinction
- Document execution-ready test cases with clear steps for any outsourced or automated testing scope
- Contribute to evaluating and adopting agentic testing tools and AI-powered workflows that reduce manual effort over time
- Drive quality culture
- Partner with Product, Engineer, and QA on process improvements, coverage gaps, and release readiness
- Contribute to QA documentation, standards, and best practices across pods
- Bring a continuous improvement mindset: if something is slow or manual and doesn't need to be, fix it
What are we looking for?- 5+ years of QA experience in user-facing mobile apps (iOS or Android required)
- Hands-on tester first: you manually test the app, find real bugs, and document them with precision and full context
- Strong risk analysis instincts: you know what to test deeply, what to deprioritize, and how to make the call under time pressure
- High ownership mindset: you define what good coverage looks like and build toward it without being told
- Experience writing structured test plans and test cases from product specs
- Experienced using AI tools in your QA workflow: test case generation, automated execution, or agentic testing frameworks, and actively look for ways to apply them to reduce manual effort
- Comfortable reading and understanding test scripts; you don't need to write them from scratch but you can use AI tools to write and improve them without relying on Engineering
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and release windows are tight
- Able to work from SF HQ at least 3 days/week
Nice to have:- Experience with AI-powered testing tools and methodology
- Exposure to ASR or audio/speech product testing
- Familiar with mobile test automation frameworks (Espresso, XCUITest, Appium, or Detox) and/or web (Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress)
