Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Murmuration is an organization dedicated to empowering communities through data-driven insights and tools. They are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer who will define and implement the quality assurance strategy across engineering teams, focusing on automation and collaboration to ensure high-quality data-driven products.

Responsibilities:

• Help define and drive Murmuration’s QA strategy across multiple engineering pods, ensuring consistent quality practices and standards
• Partner with our QA group to help establish and maintain QA processes, including test planning, automation strategy, release readiness, and defect management
• Identify gaps in quality processes and lead cross-team initiatives to improve reliability, test coverage, and engineering efficiency; and
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on QA methodologies, tooling, and best practices
• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for web applications, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines
• Develop automated data validation tests for large-scale datasets, ETL workflows, and analytics systems (i.e., Python, Pandas, SQL, and NoSQL)
• Implement and maintain CI/CD-integrated test automation frameworks
• Contribute to performance, load, and reliability testing for critical systems; and
• Perform manual testing when appropriate, especially for exploratory, usability, or high-risk areas
• Work closely with developers, product managers, designers, and data engineers to ensure high-quality delivery of features and platform improvements
• Participate in design reviews, requirement refinement, and architecture discussions to ensure testability and quality considerations are built in from the start; and
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to improve deployment pipelines, observability, and release confidence
• Mentor other QA engineers and developers on testing strategies, automation techniques, and quality best practices
• Promote a culture of quality across engineering through documentation, training, and process improvements; and
• Advocate for inclusive, collaborative, and data-driven engineering practices

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Software Engineering in Test, or related roles
• Strong experience designing and implementing automated tests for web applications, APIs, and backend services
• Proficiency with test automation and data validation (i.e., Pandas, SQL, scripting)
• Experience with cloud environments (e.g., AWS S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.) and containerization (Docker)
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, test design techniques, and defect management
• Experience testing data-intensive systems, ETL pipelines, or analytics platforms
• Familiarity with Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile/Scrum workflows
• Excellent debugging, analytical, and communication skills
• Ability to lead quality initiatives across multiple teams and influence the engineering process
• Experience in Javascript/Typescript
• Experience using and working with a test automation framework (e.g., Playwright, Postman, pytest, Cypress, etc.)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB) and relational databases (SQL)
• Background in performance testing, load testing, or reliability engineering
• Experience in civic tech, political data, or mission-driven organizations
• Experience mentoring QA engineers and/or leading QA teams