Sr Quality Assurance Engineer

Jeppesen ForeFlight is seeking a dedicated Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our test engineering team. Collaborating with cross-functional teams of developers, designers, and product owners, you will be responsible for the creation and implementation of comprehensive manual and automated testing protocols for our EFB mobile iOS Application - FliteDeck Pro. Your contributions will safeguard the dependability and safety of the essential tools relied upon daily by aviation professionals. This is a hybrid position based in Austin, TX, requiring onsite presence at our Austin office 2–3 times per quarter. Fully remote work arrangements may be considered for highly qualified candidates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own test strategy and test architecture for a product area, driving decisions on coverage, risk, and release readiness
• Design and write manual test plans and execute test cases, and support automated testing for new features and regression coverage across our product suite
• Collaborate with developers and product managers throughout the SDLC to understand requirements, identify edge cases, and define acceptance criteria
• Identify, document, and track defects clearly and thoroughly, working with engineering to drive issues to resolution
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing across iOS/iPad OS and macOS
• Analyze test results and provide clear, data-driven quality assessments to stakeholders and leadership
• Partner with cross-site engineering teams (including our Gdansk, Poland team) to ensure consistent test coverage and quality standards across the organization
• Continuously evaluate and improve test processes, tooling, and best practices to raise the bar on product quality
• Create well written documentation and share product workflows through knowledge training and brainstorming sessions

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in software quality assurance, test engineering, or a related discipline, including experience testing complex, multi-platform systems
• Demonstrated ownership of test strategy and architecture for a product area, not just execution of existing test plans
• Strong track record working across iOS/iPadOS/macOS environments in production-grade software
• Experience with test management tools such as AIO Tests, JIRA , Charles Proxy,  GitHub, VSCode, Terminal
• Leveraging AI tools such as Claude / Codex to create test designs 
• Experience mentoring or providing technical leadership to other QA/test engineers
• Proven ability to partner directly with engineering leadership and product managers to define quality standards, risk tolerance, and release readiness criteria
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, with sound judgment on prioritizing test coverage under time and resource constraints
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including shaping test processes at the team or org level
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent quality risk and status to senior stakeholders
• Self-driven, able to operate with significant autonomy while aligning with broader engineering and product goals

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience defining test strategy and quality standards across multiple teams or a full product line, not just a single feature area
• Aviation domain knowledge or experience testing safety-critical, certified, or highly regulated software (e.g., DO-178B/DO-200B environments)
• Experience with programming/scripting ability (e.g. Swift, Python, bash scripts)
• Experience testing across distributed, cross-site engineering teams, including establishing shared quality standards across locations
• Experience influencing engineering culture around quality, such as introducing new testing practices, tooling, or shift-left quality initiatives
• Prior experience in a QA lead, staff, or principal-level capacity
• Familiarity with  automated test frameworks (e.g., XCUITest or similar)
• Pilot or aviation enthusiast

About Jeppesen ForeFlight:

Jeppesen ForeFlight is a leading provider of innovative aviation software solutions, serving the Commercial, Business, Military, and General Aviation sectors globally. Combining Jeppesen’s 90-year legacy of accurate aeronautical data with ForeFlight’s expertise in cutting-edge aviation technology, the company delivers an integrated suite of tools designed to enhance safety, improve operational efficiency, and sharpen decision-making.

Why You Should Join:

At Jeppesen ForeFlight, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We believe in our employees, and we empower them to make a direct impact on our products and services messaging. We strive to provide our team and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits package includes but not limited to the following:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance with Employer paid health premiums
• Open PTO Policy
• 401(k) with up to 10% company matching and immediate vesting
• 12 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave
• Flight Training Rewards

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well market and business considerations: Summary Pay Range: $124,000-$152,000

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