Role Overview As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Salient, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our products. Your keen eye for detail, strong problem-solving skills, and collaborative spirit will be key to your success in this role.
Key Responsibilities- Evaluate and interpret system specifications to understand the overall system architecture and individual components.
- Create and execute detailed test cases to ensure product quality and functionality.
- Report and track bugs using JIRA, ensuring timely resolution of issues.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering teams, Product Management, and Customer Support to perform both functional and non-functional testing.
- Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous process improvements and team-oriented initiatives.
- Leverage AI/LLM tools (e.g., Claude) as part of daily testing workflows, including test case drafting, log analysis, and lightweight scripting for data collection.
Success in This Role Relies On:- Attention to Detail: A meticulous approach to testing, ensuring that all potential issues are identified and addressed
- Collaboration: Working effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure quality at every stage of the product lifecycle
- Adaptability: Being open to learning new tools and technologies, and adapting to changes in a fast-paced environment
- Continuous Improvement: A desire to continuously improve your skills and contribute to the growth of the QA team
Requirements
Required Experience- 2+ years of professional experience as a software tester
- Solid understanding of testing methodologies including test planning, test execution, and defect management
- Demonstrated experience using Claude (or comparable LLM tools) as part of a daily QA workflow
- Ability to translate user story acceptance criteria into comprehensive test coverage
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on teamwork
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for reporting test results and actionable items
- Work experience with API Testing
- Experience using SQL for test validation
Preferred Experience- Experience using LLM tools to write scripts for testing or data collection tasks
- Experience building or working with AI agents (e.g., agentic workflows, MCP-based tooling)
- Work experience with Automation
- Knowledge of testing cloud-enabled applications in AWS environments
- Experience planning and executing scalability, security, and performance testing
- Experience testing Video Management software
CompensationSalary is commensurate with experience. Salient Systems provides an excellent benefits package including; partial employer paid health insurance, employer sponsored life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance, voluntary dental and vision insurance, 401(k), and unlimited PTO. Our values are commitment, collaboration, customer focus, determination, and innovation! A fun, entrepreneurial spirit and initiative are key elements of the Salient environment. We foster a culture of collaboration through supporting team building events and continuing career growth and development.
