Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer (Remote)

Remote (North America/Latin America timezones)

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About Maximus

Maximus (https://www.maximustribe.com/) is a mission-driven consumer performance medicine telehealth company that provides men and women with content, community, and clinical support to optimize their health, wellness, and hormones. Maximus has achieved profitability, 8-figure ARR, and is doubling year over year - with a strong cash position. We have raised $15M from top Silicon Valley VCs such as Founders Fund and 8VC as well as leading angel investors/operators from companies like Bulletproof, Tinder, Coinbase, Daily Stoic, & Shopify.

Please note: Culture is key at Maximus, so we get to know candidates holistically through our questionnaire. You will receive an invite in a separate email upon submitting an application. Please fill it out as honestly and intuitively as possible since it is designed to detect exaggeration, which will cause your application to be automatically rejected. The questionnaire is optional to submit now with your application, but candidates that complete the questionnaire will get strongly prioritized. Note, we do not have access to individual questions’ answers/choices.

About the Role:

As our Senior QA Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our applications. You'll work closely with our engineering and product teams to implement effective testing strategies, with a primary focus on automation while maintaining manual testing capabilities. This position requires a balance of technical expertise and strong communication skills to drive quality throughout our development process.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites using Cypress for UI, component, and API testing.

• Perform manual testing activities to ensure comprehensive coverage.

• Collaborate with developers on defining and implementing effective test automation architecture.

• Actively contribute to the planning and execution of load, performance, and security testing initiatives.

• Actively participate in agile ceremonies and provide quality-focused input during planning and refinement.

• Mentor and train junior team members on test automation best practices.

• Work with engineering teams to integrate testing into CI/CD workflows.

• Document testing processes, test plans, and results in JIRA/Confluence.

• Identify, report, and track defects through resolution.

• Provide regular updates on testing progress and quality metrics.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• 5+ years of QA engineering experience with a focus on test automation.

• Strong experience with Cypress test automation for UI, component, and API testing.

• 3+ years of experience with GraphQL and REST API testing.

• Experience contributing to load, performance, and security testing initiatives and understanding their methodologies.

• Demonstrated experience building new automation suites from early stages.

• Strong understanding of test automation architecture principles.

• Experience testing applications built with modern web frameworks (experience with Ruby and React stacks is a significant plus).

• Proficiency with CI/CD workflows, preferably Github Actions.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Active contributor in agile development environments.

• Experience mentoring or training junior engineers.

• Development experience is a plus.

Technical Stack / Skills:

• Testing Frameworks: Cypress (UI, Component, API testing)

• API Technologies: GraphQL (3+ years), REST (3+ years)

• Frontend: Experience testing applications built with frameworks like React

• Testing Types: Automated testing (75%), Manual testing (25%)

• CI/CD: Experience with automated testing pipelines, preferably Github Actions

• Project Management: JIRA, Confluence, Atlassian suite

• Quality Practices: Test automation architecture, contributing to performance testing, contributing to security testing

• Soft Skills: Strong communication, mentoring, agile methodologies

Qualities:

• A dedication to keeping things simple and pragmatic.

• Attitude of shared ownership of the system, frequent integration. Collaborates proactively, in service of the shared highest priority.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills: Proven ability to build strong relationships with technical and non-technical members of the team to solve challenging technical and business problems.

• Relentlessly Resourceful (http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html): highly proactive, does not quit, and finds innovative solutions with little guidance. Bias for action and ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment with a high degree of autonomy.

• Passion for Men’s Health & Development: interest in helping men develop a healthy masculinity. Demonstrates personal dedication and interest in health optimization (e.g. diet, exercise, sleep, focus, and relationships).

Benefits:

• Opportunity to have strong ownership and create huge impact

• Flexible vacation/time-off policies

• Liquidity of options whenever available

• Extended options exercise window for loyal employees (3 months for every year of service; e.g. 1 year for 4+ year employees)

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer, which not only includes standard protected categories, but the additional freedom from discrimination against your free speech and beliefs, as long as they are aligned with company values. We celebrate intellectual diversity.