Makai Labs

Makai Labs

Senior QA Automation Engineer

New York · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonSQLPostgreSQLMySQLAgileSeleniumCypressPlaywrightPostmanTest AutomationManual TestingAPI TestingFirewallCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Makai is looking for a proactive Senior QA Engineer to join our growing team as a key contributor and leader within our QA practice.
  • This is a contract-to-hire remote role in which you will be the hands-on expert driving quality initiatives, ensuring product reliability, performance, and user satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • End-to-End Quality Ownership: Manage the entire QA lifecycle - from analyzing requirements and user stories for testability, to designing test strategies and checklists, executing tests, and reporting on release readiness.
  • In-Depth Functional & Regression Testing: Perform thorough manual functional, integration, regression, compatibility, and exploratory testing to ensure the highest quality of every release.
  • API & Backend Testing: Conduct extensive API testing using tools like Postman and validate complex business logic by writing and executing SQL queries to ensure data integrity and backend functionality.
  • Defect Management: Identify, document, isolate, and track bugs with a high level of detail and clarity throughout their lifecycle. Work closely with developers to facilitate resolution and verify fixes.
  • Always be of service to each other and our clients, partners, and neighbors
  • Manage the entire QA lifecycle - from analyzing requirements and user stories for testability, to designing test strategies and checklists, executing tests, and reporting on release readiness.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional QA Experience, with a proven track record in testing complex web applications.
  • Foundational test automation experience with tools like Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium
  • Expertise in Modern QA methodologies, test design techniques (e.g., equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis), and mastery of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Life Cycle (STLC) within Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban)
  • Proficiency in database testing: Practical experience writing complex SQL queries to validate backend behavior, ensure data integrity, and perform data/setup/teardown for test scenarios in relational databases (e.g. SQServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
  • Ability to read and understand code in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python to support test analysis and future automation initiatives.
  • Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and a methodical approach to testing.
  • Fluent English (written and spoken)
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with Developers, Product Owners and QA Team.

Benefits

  • Be a flexible thinker
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