QA Engineer

Title: QA Engineer Location: Houston, TX Website: Job Type: Direct-Hire

QA Engineer

This is not a purely managerial QA role — the ideal candidate is still deeply technical, writes and maintains automation themselves, and leads by example while also directing an offshore QA team embedded in our Agile/Scrum delivery model.

Key Responsibilities

• Stay hands-on with day-to-day testing activities — writing test plans, executing test cases, and directly contributing to automation, not just overseeing it.
• Design, build, and maintain a robust test automation framework, with strong, real-world hands-on experience in Playwright as the primary tool.
• Guide, mentor, and manage an offshore QA team, setting priorities, reviewing work, and ensuring consistent quality standards across time zones.
• Act as the QA voice within Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, retrospectives) and drive QA best practices within an Agile delivery model.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted testing tools and techniques to accelerate test creation, maintenance, and coverage — e.g., AI-generated test scripts, self-healing locators, and AI-assisted test case/data generation — to modernize and speed up the QA process.
• Build and maintain a CI/CD-integrated automated regression suite, ensuring fast, reliable feedback loops for every release.
• Collaborate closely with Development, DevOps, and Product teams to embed quality early in the SDLC (shift-left testing).
• Establish QA metrics and reporting (test coverage, defect leakage, automation ROI) to give engineering leadership visibility into product quality.
• Own API testing, performance/load testing, and data pipeline validation as needed for cloud and edge components.

Required Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience leading QA for cloud/edge platforms or SaaS products.
• Strong, current, real-world experience with Playwright for UI and API automation (not just familiarity — production usage expected).
• Experience testing containerized applications (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology and experience operating as an embedded QA lead within Scrum teams.
• Experience managing or closely directing an offshore/distributed QA team.
• Strong grasp of API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured, or similar) and test framework design.
• Familiarity with performance testing tools (k6, JMeter, or similar).

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with AI-powered test automation tools (e.g., Playwright's AI/codegen capabilities, AI-based test authoring or maintenance tools) to speed up test creation and reduce automation maintenance overhead.
• Exposure to BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow) for collaborative test-case definition with Product/Dev.
• Experience with shift-left / risk-based testing approaches and contract testing (Pact) for microservices.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Application Insights) to correlate test failures with production telemetry.
• Experience testing WITSML/industrial IoT data protocols or oilfield/edge-device data pipelines is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Azure cloud services and cost-aware test environment management.
• Experience with AI-assisted test generation/maintenance tools to accelerate automation coverage.

What Success Looks Like

• A mature, maintainable Playwright automation suite integrated into CI/CD with meaningful coverage.
• A well-coordinated offshore QA team operating with clear priorities and consistent quality bar.
• QA fully embedded in Scrum ceremonies, catching issues early rather than at release time.
• Faster test creation and reduced automation maintenance overhead through smart use of AI-assisted testing tools.

About INSPYR Solutions

Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

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