Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Hudl is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer for its North American Sports product team. The role owns end-to-end quality for American Football analytics and recruiting products, leading testing strategy, automation, and collaboration across a cross-functional squad.

Responsibilities:

• Lead quality initiatives. Build risk-based testing strategies tailored to your squad‘s architecture, drive quality discussions in scrum ceremonies, challenge defect priorities, and continuously look for ways to improve practices and keep your squad‘s quality processes ahead of the curve
• Test across the stack. Design and execute tests spanning front-end UI, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines — validating transformations, service outputs, and complex logic at scale
• Automate with intent. Make informed decisions about what, when, and how to automate. Use Playwright and scripting to build reliable, maintainable automated checks that keep pace with development
• Mentor and grow others. Use your technical depth and quality instincts to coach teammates, raise the bar for quality standards across the team, and influence how the whole squad thinks about quality
• Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design, contribute to hiring, and invest in your own professional development

Requirements:

• Quality focus. You see the big picture and use it to drive improvements in both quality and velocity
• Technical depth. 4+ years of software testing experience with hands-on expertise across the full stack — API testing, backend and data-heavy systems, and front-end validation — plus proficiency in automation frameworks like Playwright and languages like Python or TypeScript
• A track record of leadership. You‘ve owned quality for a squad, led testing initiatives end-to-end, defined success criteria, and designed approaches that measurably reduce risk in production
• Investigative rigour. You dig to root causes of complex problems, back your findings with data, and measure outcomes
• User focus. You think critically about the user experience and let that understanding shape your testing approach
• AI-powered working. You actively use AI tools in your day-to-day workflow — for test case creation, failure diagnosis, documentation, and beyond — and look for new ways to apply them to raise the team‘s efficiency
• Performance testing exposure. Familiarity with load, stress, and scalability testing concepts and tools (e.g. JMeter) for validating API and backend performance
• Sports knowledge. Passion for or experience in Basketball, American Football or Ice Hockey — whether as an athlete, coach, or fan — and an appreciation for the unique challenges of sports technology
• A relevant degree or equivalent experience. A bachelor‘s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience