Senior QA Automation Engineer

At Qu you’ll find a fun, dynamic, and diverse culture that celebrates team and individual success. Our people are down to earth, trail blazin’ folks who value innovation. 

Qu’s mission is to deliver world-class enterprise software to help restaurant chains thrive in the face of increasing complexity, opportunities, and challenges. We employ talented and ambitious engineers to use the latest technologies and tools to build innovative cloud and app based software products in rapid fashion.
While mostly virtual, we collaborate closely to produce leading-edge software solutions much needed in the restaurant industry.

We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer with a strong background with in backend testing, a passion for quality, and hands-on expertise in automation. You will help architect, build, and maintain robust automation for APIs and backend services—ensuring reliability, performance, and overall technical excellence across mission-critical systems.This role is ideal for someone who elevates quality practices, and who can balance an automation-first mindset with thoughtful manual test design when dealing with complex service-oriented architectures.The ideal candidate values deep collaboration across engineering, and is driven to ensure testing is integrated seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.

At Qu you will:

• Design, implement, and maintain automated API and service-level test cases using Karate, with a strong preference towards Postman expertise.
• Provide technical leadership across QA automation, setting best practices for backend testing, frameworks, and automation strategy.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, and product teams to define and evolve test strategies for new and existing services.
• Develop and maintain automated regression, smoke, and contract test suites ensuring high reliability and rapid feedback loops.
• Perform manual exploratory and validation testing for complex backend workflows or non-automatable areas.
• Execute backend performance testing and validations using tools like JMeter, k6, or equivalent.
• Validate data integrity and conduct root cause analysis using logs, service metrics, and backend databases.
• Work comfortably in Linux-based environments, leveraging Docker for test execution, local development, and environment configuration.
• Run tests in Dockerized environments or local dev environments; contribute to test environment setup and configuration.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Contribute to continuous integration (CI) and continuous testing (CT) pipelines as part of the QA automation lifecycle.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in software QA with a heavy emphasis on backend/API testing.
• Proven expertise in backend QA automation, including framework design, test strategy, and improving engineering-wide quality practices.
• Deep hands-on experience with Postman, including complex workflows, scripting, chaining, and API debugging.
• Experience writing and maintaining automated tests in Karate Framework (or willingness to learn quickly).
• Strong understanding of RESTful services, auth flows, headers, status codes, and payload validation.
• Strong experience with Docker and containerized test setups.
• Experience reading logs and debugging backend systems.
• Solid manual QA background and exploratory testing experience for service-level validation.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum and using tools like JIRA, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Basic proficiency in reading code (e.g., Java, C#, JavaScript) to assist in triage and test alignment.

Bonus Experience

• Familiarity with Point of Sale (POS) systems.
• Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, k6, or Locust.
• Knowledge of MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience testing distributed or edge-deployed systems (POS terminals, IoT devices, etc.).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
• Domain expertise in restaurant/POS systems and workflows.

The Type of Team Player We Need

• A technical QA engineer who enjoys getting hands-on with code, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Passionate about quality and delivering scalable, robust services.
• Curious and self-driven: eager to experiment and iterate to find effective solutions.
• Strong communicator who can articulate quality risks and collaborate across teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with high expectations.
• A team player who takes pride in raising the QA bar across squads.