[Hiring] Senior QA/SDET @Vouched

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior QA/SDET who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment and is passionate about building quality into every release alongside a talented team. The ideal candidate blends a tester's instinct for finding what breaks with strong software engineering skills, partnering closely with engineering, product, and ML stakeholders to ensure the platform that powers identity verification for customers around the world works correctly, every time.

• Own quality across the full product lifecycle, from reviewing requirements and designs through test planning, automation, release validation, and production verification.
• Build and maintain the test frameworks, automated suites, and quality gates that let our team ship quickly and with confidence across our APIs, web capture SDK, mobile SDKs, and customer dashboard.
• Treat security, privacy, and regulatory compliance as first-class, non-negotiable quality requirements.
• Design tests that verify access controls, data handling, and auditability.
• Help produce test evidence that supports our compliance posture across frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, etc.
• Ensure that test environments and test data never expose real personal information.
• Foster a culture of shared ownership of quality by championing testability and facilitating open conversations about release risk.
• Leverage modern AI-powered tooling to accelerate test development.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the test strategy for the Vouched platform, balancing unit, integration, API, end-to-end, and exploratory testing to maximize risk coverage and release speed.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for our REST APIs, web capture SDK, mobile SDKs (iOS and Android), and customer dashboard.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines as quality gates, keeping suites fast, reliable, and free of flaky tests.
• Validate identity verification flows end to end across real devices, browsers, cameras, and network conditions.
• Build and curate safe, synthetic test data that exercises edge cases across countries and document types without using real personal data.
• Test for security and privacy: authentication and authorization, input validation, PII handling and redaction, and data retention.
• Support compliance readiness by producing traceable test evidence and change-validation records.
• Drive performance, load, and reliability testing to ensure our APIs and processing pipeline meet latency and throughput targets.
• Partner with ML engineers to validate model and pipeline changes using regression datasets and accuracy benchmarks.
• Own release validation and sign-off; triage, reproduce, and root-cause defects.
• Define and report on quality metrics and use them to drive continuous improvement.
• Champion a culture of quality across engineering by reviewing designs and pull requests for testability.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI-powered tools and workflows to improve test speed, coverage, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering, including at least 3 years as an SDET or test automation engineer.
• Strong programming skills in at least one language used for test automation (TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, or Kotlin/Swift).
• Hands-on experience building and scaling test automation frameworks for web UIs and APIs.
• Experience testing mobile applications or SDKs on iOS and Android.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with performance and load testing tools and using observability tools to investigate failures.
• Solid understanding of security and privacy testing.
• Experience working in regulated environments and supporting compliance frameworks.
• Proficiency with AI-powered development tools.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across the stack.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in a startup environment is required.
• Experience managing or collaborating with distributed teams is essential.
• Familiarity with identity verification, computer vision, or AI/ML-based solutions is a plus.

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Remote working environment
• Self-managed paid time off
• 11+ annual company holidays
• 401(k)
• Health Care Benefits: Medical, Vision, Dental
• Wellness benefits: EAP, LifeHealth Online, One Medical, Perkspot
• Parental leave