Sr. Software Test Engineer
Company: Innovation Associates, Inc.
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $70,000 - $105,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-06-03
About this role
The Role:
The Sr. Software Test Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of software products through a combination of hands-on testing, test automation, and modern quality engineering practices.
This role is responsible for leading testing efforts across complex systems, with a strong emphasis on automation-first strategies, CI/CD integration, and data-driven testing approaches. While manual testing remains important for validating complex and real-world scenarios, the primary focus is on building scalable, maintainable automated test solutions.
The Sr. Software Test Engineer collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle and leverages modern tools, including GenAI, to improve test efficiency, coverage, and insight generation.
What you'll do:
- Test Planning and Strategy:
- Develop comprehensive test strategies and plans based on project requirements and specifications
- Define risk-based testing approaches and ensure appropriate coverage across functional and integration layers
- Contribute to shift-left and shift-right testing practices, including early validation and production feedback
- Test Design and Execution:
- Design, develop, and execute test cases and automated test scripts for functional, integration, and end-to-end validation
- Perform targeted manual testing for complex, high-risk, and real-world scenarios where automation is not sufficient
- Validate API, data flows, and system integrations to ensure end-to-end reliability
- Test Automation and CI/CD:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites across UI, API, and backend layers
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback
- Drive an automation-first mindset, reducing reliance on repetitive manual testing
- dentify and implement opportunities to improve test coverage, exec...