[Hiring] Senior Quality Assurance Engineer @Nearmap

Role Description

Reporting to the QA Manager, we're looking for a Senior QA Engineer to assist in leading our quality engineering efforts while acting as a hands-on technical QA Engineer for our manual and automation team. This role combines people and process leadership with deep, hands-on automation expertise across API, web, and desktop applications. You'll set the technical direction for test automation, mentor other QA engineers, and champion the use of AI-assisted tools to accelerate test design, maintenance, and coverage.

• Provide both manual and QA automation and assist in mentoring a team of QA engineers, providing technical guidance, and code reviews.
• Set automation standards, frameworks, and best practices across the QA function.
• Plan and prioritize QA work in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
• Assist QA Manager to provide test strategy for new features and major releases, including risk assessment and coverage planning.
• Report on quality metrics, automation coverage, and release readiness to stakeholders.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex quality and testing issues.
• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for API, web UI, and Windows desktop applications.
• Develop and extend API test automation frameworks using Java and REST Assured.
• Write automation scripts and tooling in Python to support test execution, data setup, and reporting.
• Evaluate, integrate, and apply AI automation tools to improve test generation, maintenance, and self-healing capabilities.
• Use Claude AI to accelerate automation development, including generating test cases, refactoring test code, analyzing failures, and creating test documentation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD test pipelines within Azure DevOps, including test plans, pipelines, and release gates.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing where automation coverage is still developing.
• Triage test failures, distinguish flaky tests from genuine defects, and drive root-cause analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or relevant work experience.
• 8+ years of QA engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead or senior QA role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and REST Assured for API test automation.
• Experience using Claude AI (or similar LLM tools) to support automation development and testing workflows.
• Working proficiency in Python for scripting and tooling.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted or AI-driven automation tools in a testing context.
• Solid experience with API testing and automation (functional, contract, performance considerations).
• Experience testing Windows desktop applications (UI automation frameworks such as WinAppDriver, Appium, or similar).
• Experience with Web UI test automation (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (Test Plans, Pipelines, Boards, Repos).
• Strong understanding of test strategy, risk-based testing, and quality metrics.
• Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring or leading other QA engineers.

Benefits

• 4 extra "YOU" days off each year—take a break, no questions asked!
• Company-sponsored volunteering days to give back.
• Generous parental leave policies for growing families.
• Work from Overseas Policy - explore the world in the approved list of cities while you work!
• Discounted Private Health Insurance plans.
• A Nearmap subscription (naturally!).