QA Engineer

The role

This person will own quality assurance, testing strategy, product validation, and release readiness for the ARBI and Athena platforms. They will build automated quality systems, validate AI workflows, and define the company-wide QA strategy.

What you will do

• Perform a deep audit of the current QA setup
• Define a company-wide QA strategy
• Design a scalable test architecture
• Establish a practical quality operating rhythm
• Validate implementation against requirements and designs
• Test UI, UX, business logic, and accessibility
• Take ownership of automated frontend, API, integration, and end-to-end test coverage
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Validate AI-assisted recruiting workflows for accuracy and bias risk
• Create clear, structured, reproducible bug reports

Required qualifications

• Experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Software Test Engineering, or a related product-quality role
• Experience testing SaaS web products, B2B platforms, workflow systems, data-heavy applications, or AI-enabled products
• Strong manual QA skills: exploratory testing, edge-case discovery, cross-browser validation, responsive web testing, clear bug reporting, and release sign-off
• Hands-on automated testing experience with Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Pytest, Postman/Newman, RESTAssured, or similar tools
• Strong backend engineering fluency, especially with Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Celery, Temporal, containers, AWS services, and deployment pipelines
• Experience validating large-scale datasets, data pipelines, integrations, asynchronous workflows, search/indexing behavior, and workflow automation
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improving reliability, speed, observability, and developer feedback loops
• Strong systems thinking, sound quality architecture judgment, and the ability to move from ambiguity to an executable QA roadmap
• Ability to operate in startup-style environments with high ownership, speed, accountability, and mentoring responsibility
• Ability and willingness to relocate to the Northern VA / Washington, DC area, or work closely with the team during Eastern Time business hours if remote

Nice to have

• Prior experience as a Staff QA Engineer, Lead QA Engineer, Quality Engineering Lead, SDET Lead, Founding QA Engineer, or QA Architect
• Experience testing AI/LLM products, evaluation workflows, RAG systems, AI copilots, agentic workflows, or human-in-the-loop decision systems
• Experience in HR tech, recruiting platforms, ATS/CRM systems, career services, assessment platforms, or workforce development products
• Experience with A/B testing, feature flags, analytics validation, event tracking, access control, subscription/billing flows, or customer-specific configurations
• Experience with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter, k6, Locust, or similar platforms
• Familiarity with security, privacy, accessibility, SOC 2-style controls, federal deployment expectations, or auditability requirements
• Comfort working directly with founders, customers, customer success, and implementation teams

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• PTO
• Company-supported professional growth
• Support for relevant courses, conferences, certifications, technical books, and quality engineering communities

About the company

Neuroscale AI is building a next-generation AI recruiting and talent intelligence platform. They are also building Athena, an AI-powered career readiness and candidate-assistance experience.