Senior Software Quality Engineer

🇲🇽In-Person - Mexico City, MexicoMX$840K–MX$1.3M/yri1h ago

K-12 Engineering Software Quality Assurance Test Automation QA Engineering Software Testing AI Development

Role Snapshot

Senior Software Quality Engineer responsible for ensuring quality and user experience of applications through comprehensive testing and automation framework development. Acts as a technical point of contact for quality assurance strategy, complex problem-solving, and continuous testing model implementation across product domains.

Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain automated and manual test frameworks; define test strategies, plans, and cases; participate in functional, regression, and integration testing across all project stages. Investigate and track defects, provide technical guidance and mentoring to teams, and leverage AI tools to optimize test automation and generate scalable test datasets.

Skills & Tools: Advanced expertise in test automation frameworks, functional and regression testing, CI/CD processes, and quality assurance best practices. Strong proficiency with AI-assisted coding tools, prompt engineering, UI test automation, and demonstrated ability to mentor teams and communicate technical guidance.

Qualifications: Significant professional experience in software quality assurance and test automation framework development, with proven expertise in complex testing environments and architectural design. Advanced knowledge of testing methodologies, tools, and emerging technologies with demonstrated leadership in QA initiatives.

Location: In-Person - Mexico City, Mexico

Compensation: MX$840K–MX$1.3M/yr (estimated)

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Job Description

The Senior Software Quality Engineer (SSQE) plays a critical role in assuring quality (adherence to requirements and user experience) by testing the company's applications. This role shares ownership over moderate to complex architecture developments, including strategy, plan, framework, and solution development. The SSQE is responsible for creating automation frameworks from scratch, solving high complexity problems, developing Continuous Testing (CT) models, and acting as a Point of Contact (POC) for technical guidance across the product domain. They exhibit advanced, wide-ranging experience, using in-depth professional knowledge, acumen, and concepts to develop and resolve complex models and procedures creatively and effectively.

Responsibilities:

Defines, develops, and implements quality assurance best practices and procedures: test strategies, test plans, test cases, and other quality-related assessments for their Domain.
Participates in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, integration, and test planning.
Works collaboratively with their team during all project stages to provide in-process testing results.
Designs, writes, executes, and maintains automated and manual tests, as well as frameworks for UI tests.
Augments development teams by enhancing test coverage where needed.
Investigates, records, triages, and tracks defects, and verifies their fixes.
Participates in code releases and the code review process.
Stays up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
Provides leadership, guidance, training, and mentoring to implement quality validations and initiatives for the domain.
AI Integration: Leverages generative AI coding assistants to optimize framework scripting, and implements prompt engineering methodologies to draft automated test workflows and generate scalable test datasets.