Role overview

Senior QA Analyst

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities

  • Own the quality strategy for a major product area, ensuring comprehensive coverage across features, integrations, and data flows.
  • Develop deep expertise in business logic and proactively identify risk areas before implementation begins.
  • Translate ambiguous requirements into structured, comprehensive test strategies in Qase.
  • Design complex, multi-system test scenarios that validate real-world workflows and failure states.
  • Execute advanced exploratory testing to uncover edge cases others may miss.
  • Lead regression strategy for your domain and ensure coverage evolves as the system grows.
  • Partner with automation engineers to prioritize and evolve automation coverage strategically.
  • Analyze defect trends and propose systemic improvements to reduce recurring issues.
  • Participate in architecture and design discussions to advocate for testability and risk mitigation.
  • Communicate release risk and tradeoffs clearly to engineering and product leadership.
  • Mentor Quality Analysts and help level up testing rigor, documentation quality, and risk awareness.
  • Raise the standard of clarity in acceptance criteria and definition of done.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software quality assurance or quality analysis.
  • Proven experience owning quality for complex product domains.
  • Strong ability to handle ambiguous requirements and convert them into structured validation plans.
  • Demonstrated experience identifying systemic risk beyond surface-level bugs.
  • Advanced experience designing comprehensive test strategies in Qase (or similar tools).
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and data validation.
  • Ability to analyze patterns in defects and influence process or architectural improvements.
  • Experience mentoring or coaching other QA team members.
  • Strong communication skills and comfort presenting risk assessments to leadership.

Details

  • 6+ years of experience in software quality assurance or quality analysis.
  • Proven experience owning quality for complex product domains.
  • Strong ability to handle ambiguous requirements and convert them into structured validation plans.
  • Demonstrated experience identifying systemic risk beyond surface-level bugs.
  • Advanced experience designing comprehensive test strategies in Qase (or similar tools).
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and data validation.
  • Ability to analyze patterns in defects and influence process or architectural improvements.
  • Experience mentoring or coaching other QA team members.
  • Strong communication skills and comfort presenting risk assessments to leadership.
  • Significant reduction in escaped defects within your domain.
  • Improved release confidence and fewer high-severity production incidents.
  • Higher clarity in requirements and fewer late-stage ambiguities.
  • Clear regression strategy with strong traceability and evolving coverage.
  • Increased maturity of other QA team members through mentorship.
  • Measurable improvement in quality-related DORA indicators (Change Failure Rate, MTTR).

Success Metrics

  • Significant reduction in escaped defects within your domain.
  • Improved release confidence and fewer high-severity production incidents.
  • Higher clarity in requirements and fewer late-stage ambiguities.
  • Clear regression strategy with strong traceability and evolving coverage.
  • Increased maturity of other QA team members through mentorship.
  • Measurable improvement in quality-related DORA indicators (Change Failure Rate, MTTR).

Benefits

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
  • Life Insurance
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • 9 paid Holidays
  • Family Leave
  • Remote
  • Hybrid work (for Orlando Associates)
  • Free Food & Snacks (Orlando)
  • Wellness Resources
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