Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development and consulting company that delivers custom software services for clients across the country and beyond. The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will own quality for complex, data-driven web applications and websites, developing test coverage, planning and executing testing throughout the agile lifecycle, coordinating with developers and clients, and improving QA processes.

Responsibilities:

• Build test coverage that matches project risk, and communicate coverage decisions and tradeoffs to the team and client
• Take part in backlog refinement and story shaping, helping the team write testable acceptance criteria before development starts
• Plan test cases for user stories and features with the agile team
• Partner with developers throughout each sprint to catch issues early, reproduce defects clearly, and resolve them together rather than just handing them off
• Perform hands-on testing against acceptance criteria throughout each project
• Coordinate regression testing and scheduled client testing, using automation where it makes sense and earns its cost
• Keep quality status visible and current, so leads, product owners, and clients can see where things stand without having to ask
• Evaluate mid-project changes for testing impact
• Estimate QA effort for upcoming work, track your time accurately, and flag it early if test coverage and budget are in conflict
• Help improve our QA processes, making them more efficient and reliable
• Explore and apply AI-assisted testing tools and techniques, and bring what works back to the team in a usable way
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) directly with clients, explaining quality status and risk in terms non-technical stakeholders understand
• Other related duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Experience on an agile development team as a Quality Engineer, owning test strategy and execution across the full project lifecycle
• Judgment about where automation adds value and where hands-on testing is the better investment
• Experience writing comprehensive test plans and test cases, and adapting coverage as requirements change
• A solid understanding of how websites, web applications, APIs, databases, mobile apps, Windows apps, and the cloud work at a high level
• Ability to support multiple client projects at once, from embedded, sprint-based testing on active builds to lighter regression coverage on maintenance work
• Experience working within scoped budgets or billable-hours environments, with good judgment on where to prioritize testing effort
• Strong attention to detail, and the ability to work with teammates to find practical solutions to quality issues
• Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills
• Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or other agile work tools
• Experience using AI to speed up test design, test data generation, or defect analysis
• Test automation experience, particularly with Playwright
• Experience planning tests for large projects
• Previous consulting experience, independent or with a firm
• Microsoft stack technologies, such as C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure
• Content management systems, such as Umbraco
• Software development experience