Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

What you’ll do Reporting to the QA Manager, we're looking for a Senior QA Engineer to assist in leading our quality engineering efforts while acting as a hands-on technical QA Engineer for our manual and automation team. This role combines people and process leadership with deep, hands-on automation expertise across API, web, and desktop applications. You'll set the technical direction for test automation, mentor other QA engineers, and champion the use of AI-assisted tools to accelerate test design, maintenance, and coverage.Provide both manual and QA automation and assist in mentoring a team of QA engineers, providing technical guidance, and code reviewsSet automation standards, frameworks, and best practices across the QA functionPlan and prioritize QA work in partnership with engineering and product leadershipAssist QA Manager to provide test strategy for new features and major releases, including risk assessment and coverage planningReport on quality metrics, automation coverage, and release readiness to stakeholdersAct as the primary escalation point for complex quality and testing issuesDesign, build, and maintain automated test suites for API, web UI, and Windows desktop applicationsDevelop and extend API test automation frameworks using Java and REST AssuredWrite automation scripts and tooling in Python to support test execution, data setup, and reportingEvaluate, integrate, and apply AI automation tools to improve test generation, maintenance, and self-healing capabilitiesUse Claude AI to accelerate automation development, including generating test cases, refactoring test code, analyzing failures, and creating test documentationBuild and maintain CI/CD test pipelines within Azure DevOps, including test plans, pipelines, and release gatesPerform manual and exploratory testing where automation coverage is still developingTriage test failures, distinguish flaky tests from genuine defects, and drive root-cause analysis