Hpiq
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
San Francisco, CA. Posted 20 days ago
The role
A Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will lead test strategy and quality initiatives across software and hardware teams. This role involves defining and scaling test automation and partnering across disciplines to improve quality for AI products.
What you will do
- Design comprehensive test strategies that align with product goals, technical architecture, and customer experience.
- Develop and maintain automation frameworks for functional, regression, and integration testing.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, UX, and design to embed quality from ideation through release.
- Define and drive key quality metrics, triage defect patterns, and surface actionable insights through dashboards and reports.
- Establish standards for test planning, execution, and documentation.
- Mentor QA engineers and champion best practices across teams.
- Build tooling and infrastructure to support continuous integration, faster feedback cycles, and scalable test coverage.
- Identify future testing needs across cloud, edge, and device interfaces to shape the long-term QA roadmap.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering
- Strong background in both manual and automated testing for customer-facing applications
- Proficiency with test automation tools and scripting (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Python, or similar)
- Deep understanding of QA methodologies, metrics, and test architecture design
- Experience programmatically validating product behavior and analyzing diagnostic signals from CI pipelines
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
Nice to have
- Experience testing AI-powered or edge-connected applications
- Familiarity with backend service testing, distributed systems, and API validation
- Strong communication skills that emphasize collaboration, documentation, and continuous improvement
- Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI)
- Passion for user experience, accessibility, and long-term product health
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave
About the company
HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. It combines startup agility with HP’s global scale to build intelligent technologies.