[Remote] Senior QA Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Volt Labs is building the infrastructure layer behind modern business messaging, focusing on compliance and operational complexity. They are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to define test strategies and build automation infrastructure while collaborating with various teams to enhance quality standards as the platform scales.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve QA strategy, processes, and standards across engineering and product workflows
• Design and build automated testing infrastructure for platform reliability and release confidence Not just execute tests, but build the systems that run them
• Define and maintain test plans, regression testing, and release validation processes
• Identify gaps in testing coverage and operational risk areas, and drive resolution
• Partner with Engineering and Product to set and enforce quality gates in the development and release workflow
• Own staging and QA environment management within AWS, including deployment of code into pre-production environments
• Document bugs clearly with reproducible steps and business impact context
• Drive observability, monitoring validation, and production issue analysis
• Lead API testing, workflow testing, and operational scenario validation with an emphasis on back-end platform and infrastructure coverage over UI testing
• Actively support peers through knowledge sharing, filling coverage gaps, and contributing to team-wide quality standards, not just owning your own test surface
• Leverage AI tooling to improve test generation, bug analysis, automation, documentation, and troubleshooting
• Build and maintain scalable QA documentation, standards, and operational playbooks

Skills

• Proven experience in senior QA engineering, software testing, or release management
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing lifecycles, and test strategy at the system level
• Experience building and owning automated testing frameworks and infrastructure, not just using them
• Strong API testing and back-end platform testing experience
• Ability to think strategically about operational risk, edge cases, and quality at scale
• Comfort with AWS environments and the ability to manage deployments into staging and QA environments independently
• Strong documentation and communication skills
• Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering and Product teams, with the credibility to influence quality standards
• Ability to operate independently and drive quality initiatives while actively supporting and collaborating with a small, high-trust team
• A collaborative, low-ego approach to peer feedback and shared ownership of quality
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership expectations
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical mindset
• Actual, hands-on experience with AI-enabled testing workflows and agentic tooling, ideally in an environment that has made the shift from traditional QA practices
• Experience testing high-volume platforms or messaging systems
• Hands-on experience with AWS services relevant to deployment and environment management (ECS, CodePipeline, CloudWatch, or similar)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms
• Experience with performance or load testing at scale
• Familiarity with SQL and database validation workflows
• Experience building QA automation infrastructure from the ground up
• Deep familiarity with agentic tooling and AI-assisted QA at the team or org level

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