Sr. QA Engineer
Renesas Electronics9 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the end-to-end quality strategy based on testing layers, coverage, and user risk.
- Design and maintain scalable unit, integration, and end-to-end test infrastructure.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to ensure features are testable by design.
- Validate React frontends, GraphQL APIs, and PostgreSQL data integrity across service layers.
- Architect and refine CI/CD test pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Use PostHog session replays, feature flags, and analytics to detect regressions and identify edge cases.
- Use AI-augmented development workflows to generate test scaffolding and explore edge cases.
- Lead regression analysis and incident retrospectives and turn defects into systemic improvements.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of professional experience in software quality engineering or software engineering with strong ownership of quality systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and testing frameworks such as Vitest, Jest, and Playwright.
- Experience testing React frontends and GraphQL-based APIs.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and validating data integrity across service layers.
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Ability to design scalable and maintainable quality systems with strong architectural thinking.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment and anticipate product risks across the feature lifecycle.
- Experience with PLM, PDM, or hardware/manufacturing software is preferred.
- Performance, load, or stress testing experience is preferred.
- Experience with Percy, Chromatic, or BackstopJS for visual regression testing is preferred.
- Familiarity with Pact or similar contract-testing tools is preferred.
- Experience defining release-readiness criteria or quality SLAs is preferred.
- Experience in AI-augmented development environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the Los Angeles office and remote work two days per week; remote work is not otherwise available.
- Regular permanent employment.
- Medical coverage, health savings account options, dental and vision insurance, and health or dependent care flexible spending accounts.
- Life insurance, AD&D, long-term disability, short-term medical benefits, paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits and pet insurance.
- Employee resource groups, flexible and inclusive workplace support, and benefit orientation for new employees.
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About Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics designs and sells microcontrollers, analog and power ICs, and connectivity solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT manufacturers. Its portfolio spans embedded processing, power management and ADAS-ready components, sold directly and through channels to OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, with software and development tools to integrate them. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is a public company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has expanded through acquisitions including Intersil and Dialog Semiconductor.