Senior QA Engineer

Senior QA Engineer 

 

About the Role 

SharkNinja is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join our cloud development team and play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our IoT product ecosystem. This position offers a mix of manual and automated testing, with a focus on our innovative connected devices including robot vacuums, coffee machines, and grills. 

You'll be responsible for sprint story testing and regression testing while helping mature and enhance our existing QA processes. This position requires a strong balance of hands-on testing, technical leadership, and strategic quality advocacy. This is an opportunity to shape quality standards for cutting-edge consumer IoT products that connect millions of customers to their devices. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

Quality Ownership & Leadership 

• Own quality strategy for cloud services, APIs, and IoT integrations across multiple releases  

• Lead test planning, risk assessment, and quality sign-offs for features and releases  

• Mentor junior QA engineers and provide guidance on best practices  

• Drive shift-left testing practices and embed quality early in the development lifecycle  

• Partner with engineering, product, and DevOps to define quality goals and metrics  

Manual and Exploratory Testing 

• Perform functional testing of software applications, APIs, and IoT device integrations 

• Execute user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate features meet business and customer requirements 

• Conduct exploratory testing to identify edge cases and usability issues 

• Validate mobile app and cloud platform functionality across different devices and environments 

• Create and maintain detailed test cases and test plans for sprint stories 

• Document and track defects in JIRA with clear reproduction steps and severity classification 

• Participate in sprint ceremonies and collaborate with developers on acceptance criteria 

Automated Testing 

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using TypeScript and Python 

• Build integration tests for APIs, cloud services, and IoT device communication protocols 

• Create regression test suites to ensure existing functionality remains stable across releases 

• Integrate automated tests into AWS CodePipeline for continuous testing 

• Expand test coverage across critical user flows and system integrations 

• Monitor test execution results and triage failures 

• Optimize test execution time and reliability 

Process Improvement 

• Enhance and mature existing QA processes, standards, and best practices 

• Identify gaps in test coverage and recommend improvements 

• Contribute to building a more robust testing framework 

• Collaborate with the cloud development team to shift quality left in the development lifecycle 

• Work with the team to define and manage the release process including acceptance criteria for environment promotion 

 

Required Qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance or testing roles 

• Strong foundation in both manual and automated testing methodologies 

• Hands-on experience writing automated tests in TypeScript and/or Python 

• Solid understanding of integration testing, especially for APIs and distributed systems 

• Experience testing software applications and REST APIs 

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated test integration 

• Proficiency with bug tracking and test management tools (JIRA experience preferred) 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail 

• Ability to work independently and manage testing tasks throughout the sprint cycle 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for documenting defects and collaborating with developers