Full-Time Senior Software Quality Engineer

The Role - Senior Software Quality Engineer

The Senior Software Quality Engineer role at EOS Worldwide will be essential in guiding and supporting the development team with a focus on ensuring the quality and reliability of our EOS One platform. In this "quality-first" role, they’ll provide expertise in test automation, load testing, and integration testing, embedding quality practices throughout the development lifecycle. Working closely with backend engineers, front-end developers, product managers, and QA, this role will ensure that our testing strategies are robust, scalable, and aligned with best practices, adapting to evolving business needs. This position emphasizes a hands-on, collaborative approach, where they will frequently work with the team, lead quality-focused discussions, and continuously refine our testing processes to drive improvement and ensure product excellence.

This position will report directly to the Director of Software Engineering.

Job Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Test Strategy and Automation: Provide hands-on expertise in designing and implementing automated testing strategies for the EOS One platform, focusing on functional, load, and integration testing. Maintain a balance between immediate testing needs and long-term quality assurance strategy.
• Agile Collaboration: Act as a quality advocate and mentor within agile processes, working closely with developers to ensure testing is integrated into each stage of development. Promote a quality-first mindset that supports iterative, incremental development.
• Testing Best Practices: Advocate for best practices in testing, including the implementation of automated test suites, performance testing, and continuous integration testing. Assist the team in implementing scalable and maintainable testing frameworks.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with product, frontend, and backend teams to ensure testing requirements are aligned with functional requirements, performance expectations, and user experience. Facilitate open communication and knowledge-sharing across the team to enhance testing effectiveness.

Core Skills

• Test Automation: Expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining automated end-to-end tests. Ability to create robust and reusable test scripts that ensure high coverage and reliability across different browsers and platforms.
• Extensive Experience in C# and .NET Framework: Proficient in C# and the .NET ecosystem, with a strong track record of developing reliable and maintainable applications and automated test scripts, ensuring quality and performance.
• Experience in Azure Cloud Services: Solid understanding of Microsoft Azure, including setting up test environments, managing cloud resources, and using Azure services to support continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
• Quality-Driven Development Practices: Strong advocate of quality-first practices, including test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD), to support high standards of code quality, maintainability, and rapid feedback.

Secondary Skills

• Agile Development Practices: Proven experience working within agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, emphasizing adaptive planning, continuous improvement, and close collaboration with cross-functional teams to integrate testing into each development phase.
• Automated Test Design for Microservices: Familiarity with testing strategies for microservices architectures, including end-to-end testing, contract testing, and managing dependencies across microservices.
• CI/CD and DevOps Principles: Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, including setting up automated test suites within deployment pipelines to support continuous testing and ensure reliable, rapid releases.
• Azure Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services for supporting testing environments, including compute, storage, networking, and automation for scalable and consistent test execution.
• Data Testing and Validation: Knowledge of testing strategies for data-driven applications, including validating data integrity in relational and NoSQL databases, managing data migrations, and ensuring accurate data streaming and processing.
• Testing in Distributed Systems: Experience testing distributed applications, with knowledge of handling fault tolerance, consistency, and load testing to ensure the reliability and scalability of multi-node systems.
• Security Testing and Best Practices: Understanding of security testing principles, including testing for vulnerabilities and implementing security checks in the development pipeline to ensure secure software across the lifecycle.
• Observability and Monitoring: Familiarity with observability tools for monitoring application performance and reliability, including setting up logging, monitoring, and tracing for test environments to quickly identify and resolve issues.

Soft Skills

• Remote Team: Ability to be productive and collaborative in a remote work environment.
• Communication and Team Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills, with a focus on collaboration, inclusivity, and being a team player. We value a culture-first approach in our team.
• Continuous Learning and Intellectual Curiosity: Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and commitment to continuous learning and professional growth in technology.