Senior Quality Engineer

Accordion

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software testing or quality engineering experience
  • Experience with manual and automated testing in modern application environments
  • Strong comfort with APIs, integration testing, and complex workflow validation
  • Familiarity with logs, defect triage, and data validation
  • Experience with finance, workflow, or data-centric products preferred
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex issues and solutions
  • Bachelor's degree preferred

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute various tests including functional, integration, regression, and API testing
  • Build and maintain automated test cases for efficiency
  • Validate system behavior across applications and business processes
  • Clarify acceptance criteria and risk with Product and Engineering teams
  • Provide quality assessments based on evidence and defect trends
  • Support pre-release validation and conduct post-release quality reviews
  • Execute test scenarios on AI-enabled features, focusing on business behavior and quality standards

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule with flexibility for remote work
  • Opportunity to work in a role critical to business workflow quality
  • Exposure to modern application environments and AI testing
  • Chance to contribute to continuous improvement and reusable test assets
  • Mentorship opportunities and collaboration with engineers and stakeholders
Full Job Description
Please note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
Senior Quality Engineer

The Senior Quality Engineer partners directly with delivery pods to validate software features, workflows, integrations, and releases. This impact role will be critical in executing and automating test coverage across traditional applications and AI-enabled solutions, with a focus on business-critical workflow quality and evidence-based release readiness.

This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates).

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
What You'll Do:

Validation Execution
  • Design and execute functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end workflow tests
  • Build and maintain automated test cases where they create leverage and repeatability
  • Validate system behavior across application boundaries, services, and business processes

Release Readiness
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to clarify acceptance criteria, risk, and expected behavior
  • Provide quality assessments grounded in evidence, defect trends, and scenario coverage
  • Support pre-release validation and post-release quality review

AI Workflow Testing
  • Execute test scenarios against AI-enabled features, including edge cases, missing context, ambiguous requests, and workflow handoffs
  • Validate outputs against expected business behavior, traceability requirements, and quality standards

Continuous Improvement
  • Identify recurring defects, weak spots in requirements, and opportunities to improve test coverage
  • Contribute reusable test assets, documentation, and scenario libraries
You Have:
  • 5+ years of software testing or quality engineering experience
  • Experience with manual and automated testing in modern application environments
  • Strong comfort with APIs, integration testing, and complex workflow validation
  • Familiarity with logs, defect triage, and data validation
  • Experience with finance, workflow, or data-centric products preferred
  • Ability to work closely with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders, balancing technical detail with business impact, finding edge cases and translating risk into action
  • Consistent commitment to protecting quality without becoming rigid - you are methodical, curious, and accountable
  • Bachelor's degree preferred
You Are:
  • Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
  • Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
  • Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO
  • Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture
  • Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing)
  • A self-starter with a strong work ethic
  • Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
  • Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
  • A team player, able to work with team members across all levels
  • Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
  • A leader of others; you lead by example

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $120,000 to $150,000 + benefits + bonus.

Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

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