Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

Life.Church wants to make a lasting difference in your life, in our community, and in the world. Our mission is to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. That's how we're able to make a difference, and it's the driving force behind everything we do.

The Senior Quality Engineer is primarily responsible for leading quality across mobile and web products—designing test strategies, executing manual and automated testing, and advancing test automation. This role partners closely with developers, product managers, and designers to ship reliable, high-quality Bible experiences. The Senior Quality Engineer mentors other quality engineers, advances quality engineering practices, and embeds quality early in the development process so that what we ship reflects both engineering excellence and the weight of the mission behind it.

The Senior Quality Engineer utilizes their skills to deliver technical outcomes that align with the direction of their team to further Life.Church's mission and to reach people for Christ.

Define & Drive Quality Strategy

• Own test strategy and quality across our iOS, Android, and web Bible App experiences — defining what to test, when, and how to balance manual, exploratory, and automated coverage based on risk.
• Define and maintain automated API, contract, and integration testing strategies to validate backend services that support Bible App experiences.
• Lead feature-flag and experiment QA — validating flag-on and flag-off states, configuring QA testers per variant, confirming exposure events, and partnering with Product on safe phased rollouts and A/B test integrity.
• Own release health — interpreting crash-free-rate, ANRs, and hang metrics from our observability tooling; correlating issues to releases and experiment variants; defining quality gates that fail builds on regression.
• Drive production quality initiatives through monitoring, synthetic testing, release validation, incident analysis, root-cause investigations, and quality-driven postmortems.
• Track and report quality metrics (defect density, escape rate, test execution time, crash-free rate) to engineering leadership and product partners.
• Define and maintain automated API, contract, and integration testing strategies to validate backend services that support Bible App experiences, including integration of automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Execute & Validate Quality

• Execute thoughtful manual and exploratory testing of new features, release candidates, and edge cases — including app lifecycle events, offline behavior, network conditions, device/OS variability, and the App Store / Play Store release process.
• Champion mobile accessibility — manual VoiceOver and TalkBack sweeps of critical flows, automated accessibility checks, so the Bible App works well for every user.
• Estimate, prioritize, and organize testing across multiple projects, balancing thoroughness with the release pace.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated API, contract, and integration tests that validate backend services supporting Bible App experiences.

Collaborate, Mentor & Improve

• Partner with engineers and product managers to shift quality left — joining refinement, contributing to acceptance criteria, reviewing PRs, and pairing on test design so issues are caught before they ship.
• Mentor and develop other quality engineers by sharing knowledge, raising the team's quality bar, and helping junior and mid-level engineers grow into stronger QEs.
• Drive continuous improvement of our QE tools, frameworks, and processes, while evaluating new approaches, including AI-augmented testing, and bringing the best ones to the team.
• Collaborate with peers across YouVersion Engineering to embed QE practices into how every squad ships.

Skills Needed to Succeed

• Adaptability to industry-leading tools and the ability to integrate emerging QE technologies to continually improve processes
• Ability to self-motivate, make independent decisions, and solve problems with innovation.
• Effective at multi-tasking and time management to meet strict deadlines while remaining flexible and open to change.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to clearly explain complicated processes and foster partnerships.
• Effective at process and organizational management to coordinate, structure, and provide vision to projects.
• Knowledge of software quality engineering principles, testing methodologies, automation practices, and software delivery processes.
• Ability to lead quality initiatives, mentor others, and drive continuous improvement of quality engineering practices and technologies.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in quality engineering, software testing, or a similar role, with a demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products.
• Strong knowledge of QE methodologies and hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Maestro, Selenium, Appium, JUnit, TestNG) across multiple layers (front-end, back-end, services).

Benefits We Offer

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons.
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health.
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn't stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment!
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth.
• Casual dress and work environment.
• And much more!

Our Beliefs, Culture, and Commitment to Diversity

At Life.Church, every staff member, and intern is a minister and is expected to engage in the church's ministry fully. We consider ministry readiness and an individual's capacity to represent Life.Church's beliefs as a minister during the selection process for all staff and intern positions. An essential function within every position held by a staff member or intern at Life.Church is to uphold and represent the beliefs of Life.Church. Learn more about what we believe at Life.Church.

While we unite around our mission, we know unity doesn't mean uniformity. Our calling is too great, and our mission is too important not to be intentional about strengthening our team through diversity. We know that diverse perspectives in race, ethnicity, background, age, and gender are essential to reaching the world for Christ. To learn more about how we strengthen our team through diversity, visit our careers page.

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