Software Test (QA) Engineer
About The Position
As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will design, implement, and own the testing strategy for the Matching Platform. You will build and maintain automated testing frameworks and perform exploratory validation across workflows, APIs, integrations, and user-facing components to ensure the system behaves as intended and that changes do not introduce regressions. You will contribute production-quality testing code, establish testing standards and best practices, and work closely with the Matching Team throughout story refinement and implementation to ensure new functionality is testable, clearly defined, and validated before completion. The Matching Platform is a critical tool that enables The MLC to drive accurate royalty payments to our Members.
Requirements
- Minimum five (5) years’ experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering within a software engineering team.
- Strong experience designing and implementing automated tests; able to write and maintain production-quality testing code.
- Hands-on experience with manual and exploratory testing in complex systems; able to validate behavior against business rules.
- Experience testing APIs and workflow-heavy or data-driven systems; proficient in SQL; experience working within AWS environments.
- Strong attention to detail, clear documentation skills, and effective collaboration within Agile, cross-functional teams.
- Working proficiency in Python, familiarity with other languages is a plus.
Nice To Haves
- Experience testing machine learning or probabilistic systems, building testing frameworks from scratch, or working with orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Own the testing strategy for the Matching Platform, ensuring consistent validation across workflows, APIs, integrations, and user-facing components.
- Design, build, and maintain automated test suites in Python, establishing and evolving the team’s testing framework.
- Perform manual and exploratory testing before work is considered complete, validating complex workflows, identifying defects, edge cases, unintended behaviors, and deviations from business rules.
- Collaborate closely with engineers and product stakeholders during story refinement and development to ensure features are testable and clearly defined.
- Define and maintain QA standards and testing practices within the Matching Team, contributing to regression coverage as the platform evolves.
- Investigate and document defects clearly, working with developers to resolve issues prior to ticket completion.
- Advocate for quality throughout the development lifecycle, partnering with engineers to incorporate testing considerations early.
- Contribute to the evolution of scalable, automated QA practices across the Technology organization.
- Promote consistent standards for reliability, validation, and defect management.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, providing a quality-focused perspective in planning and retrospectives.
- Support continuous improvement of engineering practices as systems grow in complexity.
- Applying The MLC’s Guiding Principles to your work and your behaviors
- Being process-oriented, data-driven, and tech-savvy; being collaborative, curious, and open to new ideas
- Engaging in a diverse and dynamic team; continuing with personal development
- Inspiring others with your enthusiasm and humility
- Embracing The MLC’s leadership values and applying The MLC’s Guiding Principles to your team’s work
- Building a dynamic team; mentoring team members; developing future leaders
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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