# Senior Quality Engineer

**Company:** [FloQast](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/floqast)
**Location:** San Jose, CA
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, cypress, Playwright, selenium, rest-assured, Node.js, MongoDB, artillery, jmeter, gatling, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2025-08-25

> Leads quality strategy, test automation, and performance engineering for complex products and backend platforms. Requires 5+ years of software quality engineering experience, strong JavaScript/TypeScript or Java skills, and expertise in performance testing, CI/CD, and MongoDB.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and own quality strategies, standards, and practices for complex product and platform initiatives.
- Drive test architecture and tooling, including automated frameworks and CI/CD quality gates.
- Lead cross-functional quality initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
- Collaborate with development, product management, and UX to shift quality left and identify issues early.
- Design and implement robust automation for UI, API, and backend systems.
- Design and implement performance, load, stress, soak, and scalability tests for backend services built on Node.js and MongoDB.
- Define and automate non-functional requirements (NFR) validation in CI/CD pipelines.
- Build and extend performance testing frameworks using k6, Artillery, Gatling, JMeter, or custom Node.js scripts.
- Conduct system profiling and analyze results using Coralogix, Prometheus, Grafana, and similar tools.
- Establish performance SLAs and ensure services meet them in production-like environments.
- Contribute to overall test strategy, particularly where performance and resilience intersect with functional quality.
- Analyze production issues and improve monitoring, observability, and incident prevention with stakeholders.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering, including leading quality for major products or platforms.
- Strong coding skills in JavaScript/TypeScript or Java.
- Deep understanding of modern test automation frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, and REST-assured.
- Deep knowledge of software testing methodologies, performance/load testing, and systems-level thinking.
- Track record of influencing engineering culture and product quality through leadership and collaboration.
- Hands-on experience with Artillery, JMeter, and Gatling.
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB performance tuning and profiling.
- Deep knowledge of HTTP, REST, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems.
- Understanding of CPU, memory, disk, and network resource utilization under load.
- Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Harness.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with containerized applications, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, AWS, containers, and microservices.
- Experience in fintech, accounting, or B2B SaaS domains.
- Exposure to chaos engineering or failure testing.
- Knowledge of distributed tracing and profiling tools such as Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.
- Knowledge of security and compliance testing practices.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

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