Staff QE
AlphaSense2 days ago
Base Salary
$148k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term testing strategy for the Expert Research portfolio using Quality by Design and Automation by Default.
- Close test coverage gaps across mission-critical workflows including call scheduling, expert sourcing, compliance, transcript review, and client and expert portals.
- Build and grow scalable E2E automation and determine appropriate unit, component, API, and E2E test coverage.
- Partner with developers on test planning so automation is ready alongside new code.
- Set quality metrics and release gates for engineering teams.
- Test AI-powered features including AI-led interviews and call synthesis, and help define output-validation approaches.
- Use AI tools to accelerate test design, maintenance, and triage, and coach others in their use.
- Coach engineers on shift-left and quality-by-design practices while influencing multiple teams without direct authority.
Requirements
- Hands-on E2E automation experience with Cypress or Playwright, with willingness to learn the other.
- Strong proficiency in at least one programming language such as Ruby, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, or Java, plus comfort working in unfamiliar codebases.
- Strong test design skills, including API testing and a deep understanding of testing theory.
- Experience with unit and component testing frameworks such as RSpec or Vitest.
- Experience using AI tools to accelerate software delivery and testing.
- Strong understanding of continuous delivery and release gating.
- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines and working with test management, performance, and observability tools.
- Experience with test management systems such as Allure TestOps.
- Ability to set direction independently without a QE team or manager.
- Experience coaching engineering teams on quality and influencing across multiple teams.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bonus: experience testing complex workflow-heavy web applications, compliance-sensitive products or sensitive data, AI or LLM output, Ruby on Rails, or Vue.
- A BS or MS in a relevant technical field is preferred.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program are available.
- Base compensation range is $148,350—$203,550 USD.
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About AlphaSense
AlphaSense builds an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform used by investment, corporate strategy, and research teams to find insights across public and private content (equity research, filings, transcripts, expert calls, news, and internal documents). It sells enterprise subscriptions to its SaaS platform and content sets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and acquired Tegus in 2024; its customers include a majority of the S&P 500.