What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Quality Assurance Engineer position at Pointwest-North America?
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Tester / Software Engineer who will lead quality assurance
initiatives across modern web, mobile, cloud, and API-driven applications. The ideal candidate has strong
experience in both manual and automated testing, understands modern software development practices,
and can collaborate closely with developers, product managers, DevOps engineers, and stakeholders to
ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing software releases.
This role is expected to contribute strategically to test architecture, automation frameworks, CI/CD
integration, performance validation, and quality governance within Agile and DevSecOps environments.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Assurance & Testing
Education
related field.
Programming & Scripting
Strong proficiency in one or more of the following:
Experience with:
Familiarity with:
Exposure to:
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initiatives across modern web, mobile, cloud, and API-driven applications. The ideal candidate has strong
experience in both manual and automated testing, understands modern software development practices,
and can collaborate closely with developers, product managers, DevOps engineers, and stakeholders to
ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing software releases.
This role is expected to contribute strategically to test architecture, automation frameworks, CI/CD
integration, performance validation, and quality governance within Agile and DevSecOps environments.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Assurance & Testing
- Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for web,
- Perform functional, regression, integration, smoke, exploratory, usability, and end-to-end testing
- Build and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks for frontend, backend, and APIs
- Validate system integrations across microservices and distributed systems
- Conduct cross-browser, cross-platform, and responsive testing
- Develop automation scripts using modern testing tools and frameworks
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Improve automation coverage and reduce manual regression effort
- Maintain test environments, test data strategies, and automation reporting dashboards
- Conduct load, stress, and performance testing for cloud-based systems
- Identify bottlenecks, latency issues, and system vulnerabilities
- Collaborate with security teams for secure SDLC and vulnerability validation
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and
- Work closely with software engineers, DevOps, UI/UX, and product teams to ensure quality
- Support release validation, production deployment verification, and incident triage
Education
related field.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or
- 5 years of experience in Software QA Engineering or Test Automation
- Strong experience testing enterprise web and cloud applications
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum and DevOps environments
Programming & Scripting
Strong proficiency in one or more of the following:
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- Python
- Java
- C#
- SQL
Experience with:
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium WebDriver
- Appium
- Postman
- REST Assured
- REST API testing
- GraphQL testing
- Microservices validation
- Contract testing
Familiarity with:
- AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Docker & Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins
- Terraform or Infrastructure-as-Code concepts
- Jira
- TestRail / Zephyr
- Confluence
- Git-based workflows
Exposure to:
- JMeter / k6
- OWASP testing principles
- SonarQube
- SAST/DAST concepts
- ISTQB Certification or equivalent QA certification
- Experience with AI-assisted testing platforms
- Experience testing SaaS, healthcare, fintech, or enterprise systems
- Knowledge of HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, or regulated environments is an advantage
- Exposure to AI/ML testing methodologies is a plus
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Effective communication and stakeholder management
- Leadership and mentoring capability
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced Agile environments
- Strong ownership mindset and commitment to software quality
- React / Next.js applications
- Node.js backend systems
- Kafka or event-driven architectures
- AI-integrated applications
- Observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or New Relic
- Mobile testing for iOS and Android platforms
- Increased automation coverage
- Reduced defect leakage into production
- Faster regression cycles
- Improved release stability
- Enhanced QA process maturity and documentation standards
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