Sr. QA Engineer

Role: QA Engineer

Description: As a Senior QA Engineer at Blackthorn, you will be part of an elite team, testing solutions that solve our most critical business priorities. You will work closely with various departments to understand our customers' most pressing needs and provide technical expertise to optimize our testing, prevent issues, and ensure we deliver high quality products. This role requires advanced skills in test automation, performance testing, and mentoring junior team members.

Base Salary: $5,750 - $7,000 USD per month

What you’ll do

• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Review tickets (bugs, enhancements, new features) and other technical documents to engage in each phase of the software development lifecycle
• Create, run, repair, manual, and automated tests using frameworks like Playwright
• Plan and build automated testing frameworks that integrate with development workflows - determining what to automate (regression tests, API endpoints, critical user flows) and when to run which tests
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, coordinate, and perform quality testing activities
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional scrum teams and across the larger company
• Demonstrate best practices in everything you do, including meaningful test coverage and striving to ensure maintainability
• Mentor junior QA team members and advocate for quality standards
• Design and maintain test data strategies, including creating hundreds of thousands of Salesforce records for performance testing, managing data versions, and ensuring clean test environments
• Design and execute performance testing strategies to identify system bottlenecks, load limits, and optimization opportunities using appropriate testing tools
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cumulus CI, MetaDeploy) to provide fast feedback on code changes and act as deployment gates

What we look for

• 5+ years of software testing experience with demonstrated expertise in test automation
• 3+ years of testing on the Salesforce platform with a deep understanding of platform limitations
• Experience with test automation frameworks, particularly Playwright
• Proficiency in programming languages for test automation
• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes (GitHub Actions, Cumulus CI, MetaDeploy preferred)
• Performance testing experience with relevant tools
• Experience testing mobile applications using emulators, simulators, or cloud device farms with automation frameworks
• Experience managing test data lifecycles and keeping test environments synchronized with code deployments through version control systems
• Excellent English communication skills with proven ability to collaborate across departments, time zones, and remote teams
• Self-directed and adaptable: stays current with testing methodologies, maintains composure under pressure, and thrives in fast-paced remote environments
• Bonus: Salesforce admin or Blackthorn product experience