Sr. Quality Engineer

Business Segment: Digital Platforms & Ventures Company Description VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass. Job Description The Opportunity We are seeking a highly technical, curious, and experienced Senior Quality Engineer to help deliver reliable, scalable, and high-quality products and experiences. In this role, you will serve as a senior quality advocate, proactively identifying product, integration, and release risks before they affect customers while helping shape how quality is built into the software development lifecycle. You will combine hands-on testing with automation, end-to-end validation, risk-based quality strategy, and AI-assisted quality engineering practices. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, DevOps, Security, and other stakeholders to establish thoughtful testing approaches, improve release confidence, and continuously strengthen our quality engineering capabilities. Why This Role Matters The quality and reliability of our products directly influence the experiences of our customers and partners. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will play an important role in ensuring complex software, hardware, POS device, API, and third-party integrations perform as intended across critical customer journeys. Your work will help teams identify risk earlier, make better-informed release decisions, and scale quality practices as our products and technology evolve. This is a fully remote role. Team members should be comfortable working effectively in a distributed environment and participating in in-person collaboration opportunities, including team meetings, planning sessions, or other business needs, with travel of up to approximately 10% per quarter. What You'll Do Own and evolve comprehensive, risk-based test strategies across functional, integration, API, hardware, POS device, and end-to-end workflows, with particular focus on business-critical customer journeys and complex system dependencies. Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing solutions for smoke, regression, integration, and end-to-end coverage, while improving test reliability, maintainability, and execution efficiency. Integrate automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines and partner with engineering teams to establish effective quality gates, earlier defect detection, and continuous validation throughout the development lifecycle. Lead exploratory testing, defect triage, root-cause analysis, release readiness assessments, and quality risk reviews, clearly communicating technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders. Validate complex integrations spanning software, APIs, hardware, POS devices, and external systems, identifying edge cases and failure scenarios that may not be captured through traditional testing approaches. Advance quality engineering practices by evaluating and applying AI-enabled tools to accelerate test creation, test maintenance, failure analysis, coverage identification, and engineering productivity while mentoring teammates and contributing to broader quality standards and best practices. Qualifications What You Bring 5+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, SDET, or a related technical quality role, with demonstrated ownership of testing strategy for complex products or systems. Strong hands-on experience designing and maintaining automated test solutions using frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or comparable technologies. Experience testing APIs and distributed system integrations using tools or frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, or similar solutions. Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or comparable tooling. Strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices, test architecture, risk-based testing, Agile development methodologies, and modern quality engineering principles. Demonstrated ability to uncover high-impact defects and complex failure scenarios through a combination of exploratory, manual, automated, integration, and end-to-end testing. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to investigate complex issues, identify root causes, and communicate quality risks clearly to technical and non-technical partners. Experience using AI-assisted tools to improve test design, automation development, failure analysis, or other quality engineering workflows. Experience testing hardware devices, POS systems, or complex software-to-hardware integrations is a plus. Trust: Exercise sound judgment, protect the integrity of our products and testing practices, and raise quality concerns constructively and early. Teamwork: Partner effectively across Engineering, Product, DevOps, Security, and other teams, recognizing that quality is a shared responsibility. Transparency: Communicate defects, release risks, test coverage, and tradeoffs clearly so teams can make informed decisions. Agility: Adapt testing approaches as requirements, technologies, and business priorities evolve, balancing speed with appropriate risk management. Entrepreneurial Spirit: Look beyond established processes to identify opportunities for better automation, smarter testing, stronger tooling, and innovative uses of AI. Accountability: Take ownership of quality outcomes, follow issues through resolution, and continuously improve the effectiveness of quality engineering practices. Why You'll Love It Here You’ll have the opportunity to help shape quality engineering practices for products and experiences that operate at meaningful scale while working alongside collaborative teams across engineering, product, technology, and the broader Versant organization. This role offers significant ownership and the opportunity to influence how teams approach automation, testing strategy, release confidence, and emerging AI-enabled quality practices. You’ll work in an environment that values thoughtful problem-solving, continuous improvement, technical curiosity, and strong cross-functional partnership. This position is fully remote, with opportunities for meaningful in-person collaboration based on team and business needs. Travel may be required up to approximately 10% per quarter for team gatherings, planning sessions, or other collaborative work. Additional Information As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to View email address on click.appcast.io . VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc. VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means. #J-18808-Ljbffr Versant