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Senior Manual QA Engineer

119k – 141kCaliforniaQA EngineeringRemote8+ YOE
Summary

Senior Manual QA Engineer responsible for designing and executing comprehensive test strategies for a complex clinical SaaS platform. Requires 8-10+ years of QA experience, expert SQL skills, cloud-native testing expertise, and AI/LLM tool proficiency to augment manual testing.

About the role

Duties and Responsibilities

Test Strategy & Design

Analyze user requirements and design documents to develop detailed, risk-based test plans and manual test cases for a complex SaaS platform.

Execution & Reporting

Lead the execution of functional, regression, and integration test cases. Document defects with high precision and provide detailed testing summaries.

Data Validation

Utilize SQL queries to analyze, manipulate, and validate test data.

Impact Analysis

Evaluate proposed software changes to determine their impact on platform performance, scalability, and reliability.

Mentorship

Provide technical guidance and best practice mentoring to QA Engineers to improve team efficiency and testing depth.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Coordinate information flow and maintain close communication with Developers, Product Owners, and DevOps.

Process Improvement

Apply innovative thinking to improve existing QA methodologies and ensure approved development standards are followed.

Issue Monitoring

Provide close monitoring and triage of issues found during the SDLC as well as high-priority bugs reported by end-users.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years in Quality Assurance, with a proven track record in fast-moving startups
  • Proactive expertise in leveraging Generative AI and LLM tools to augment manual testing
  • Extensive experience testing cloud-native applications (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and modern, multi-tenant SaaS platforms
  • Expert-level proficiency in SQL for deep data validation and backend integrity testing
  • Strong understanding of black-box and white-box testing, as well as non-functional, performance, accessibility, and security testing principles
  • Meticulous, detail-oriented approach with strong root cause analysis skills
  • Excellent writing, verbal, and presentation skills for translating technical issues to business impact
  • Strong experience using Quality and Test Management tools (e.g., Jira, QASE)
  • Familiarity with the "shift-left" approach and supporting the transition from manual-heavy to automation-integrated workflows

Benefits

  • Salary range: $119,000 to $141,000 per year
  • Equity component
  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k)
  • Life Insurance, Short Term and Long Term Disability
  • Flexible Vacation Policy, Paid Sick & Public Holidays
  • Training & Development Reimbursement
  • Remote or Hybrid Work Environment
  • Peer-to-peer bonus program
  • Stock Option Plan
Skills
JiraSQLAWSAzureGoogle CloudSaaS TestingTest PlanningRegression TestingBlack-box TestingWhite-box Testing
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