QA Engineer

TechDigital

San Francisco, CA

JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
San Francisco, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Core Skills & Mindset

  • 3–5 years of experience in software quality assurance.

  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills.

  • Ability to craft test cases from specifications, not just from UI behavior.

  • Comfortable reasoning about:

    • Data flows

    • State transitions

    • Business rules

    • Failure modes

  • Confidence in debugging and issue analysis, including reading logs, inspecting responses, and isolating root causes.

  • Clear communicator who can explain why something fails, not just that it fails.


Collaboration & Process

  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

  • Comfortable working closely with:

    • Developers

    • Product managers

    • SDETs

  • Able to give structured input to automation efforts without needing to write automation themselves.

  • Values quality as a shared responsibility, not a final gate.


Tools & Technologies

  • Test Management: TestRail

  • Work Tracking: Azure Boards

  • Testing Types: Functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing

  • Nice to Have:

    • API testing experience

    • Basic understanding of test automation concepts (Playwright, API automation, CI pipelines)

    • Experience with SaaS platforms, security products, or complex configuration-driven systems


Personal Must-Haves

  • Hands-on mentality

  • Passionate for success and execution at speed

  • Team player

  • Excellent stakeholder relationship skills

  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Ability to hit the ground running, quickly absorb new subject areas and start delivering value


What Success Looks Like

  • Test cases clearly reflect product logic and system behavior.

  • Defects are reported with precision, context, and actionable insight.

  • SDETs receive high-quality scenario input that improves automation coverage.

  • QA work is visible, respected, and integrated into the development process.

  • Fewer surprises late in the release cycle.


Why Join Us

  • Work on a mission-critical cybersecurity platform.

  • Be part of a QA culture that values thinking, reasoning, and engineering judgment.

  • Collaborate with experienced developers and SDETs in a mature, evolving quality practice.

  • Opportunity to grow toward Senior QA or SDET paths over time.

About the Company

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TechDigital

COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Other/Not Classified