Senior Software QA Engineer / SDET

 Senior Software QA Engineer / SDET

Location:Remote
Type: Contract, 3 years
Experience: 8–12+ years

About the role
Globalpundits is hiring a Senior Software QA Engineer / SDET for a multi-year technology program with a client in the regulated energy sector. You'll lead test planning, execution and quality assurance procedures for applications supporting the team's initiative. You'll own defect management and release validation, and work directly with stakeholders on quality decisions.

What you'll do

• Lead development and execution of test strategies, test plans, test cases and QA procedures
• Own defect identification, documentation, tracking and triage through release
• Validate fixes and sign off on release readiness
• Design, build and improve automated test frameworks and scripting where applicable
• Provide subject-matter expertise and recommendations on test approach, tools and quality standards
• Lead QA workstreams and mentor junior and mid-level testers

What we're looking for

• 8–12+ years of experience in manual and automated software QA testing
• Deep experience with defect-tracking tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps or similar
• Strong experience designing automated test frameworks and scripting (for example Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Python or Java)
• Experience writing QA procedures and test documentation in a regulated environment
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong stakeholder communication skills