Staff QE

The role

You will own the quality strategy for company reference data and build the practice from the ground up. You will work on automating tests for data, API, and event-driven interfaces to ensure data correctness.

What you will do

• Own the quality strategy for company reference data.
• Close test coverage gaps on critical workflows like ingesting provider data and matching records.
• Define what correct means for company data and build golden datasets and automated checks.
• Set quality measures and release standards.
• Build and grow scalable automation across data, API, and event-driven interfaces.
• Anticipate data lifecycle risks and build regression coverage.
• Partner with developers on test planning for new features.
• Use production signals to focus effort on reducing customer risk.
• Bring AI into how the team designs, maintains, and triages tests.
• Coach engineers and influence across teams to raise the quality bar.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in quality engineering, including setting strategy for complex backend or data platforms.
• Hands-on experience designing and automating tests for backend and data systems, including API and contract testing, data pipeline validation, and event-driven or streaming interfaces (e.g., Kafka).
• Strong skills in at least one programming language (such as Python, Kotlin/Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Ruby).
• Comfort working in unfamiliar codebases.
• Deep expertise in test design across unit, API, and end-to-end layers.
• Experience validating data correctness at scale, ideally in matching, identity, or pipeline-driven systems.
• A strong grasp of continuous delivery, CI/CD, and release quality gates.
• A track record of using AI to speed up engineering and testing.
• Proven ability to set direction on your own and influence without authority.
• Clear, confident communication with technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with data pipelines or data-operations tooling.
• Hands-on E2E automation experience with Playwright
• Experience with financial, company, or reference data.
• Experience evaluating AI or LLM output.
• BS/MS in a relevant technical field.

Benefits

• Playing a part in the story of a fast-growing company
• Competitive compensation package
• Lunch and recreational benefits
• Occupational health care
• Generous benefits program

About the company

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents.