Senior QA Engineer SDET
Meridian, ID - USA
Job Summary
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NextGenAgTech with In Time Tecbuilds web and mobile software used tooperatefeedlots manage cattlepurchasingand transportation andmaintainfinancial records used by owners and lenders. Our products support yard operations animal health billing financinglogistics and reporting acrossweb iOS and Android.
The testing challenge is consequential: a defect can affect an operators books an animal-health workflow or a time-sensitive decision in the yard. We are expanding QA capacity while building automation that helps us release faster without accepting greater operational or financial risk.
The mandate
You will own test strategy and automation architecture for a product suite spanning yard operations cattlepurchasing financial workflows and dispatch. This is a hands-on senior individual-contributor role: you will write code make framework decisions review tests mentor engineers and give leadership a clear view of release risk.
Our automation practice is growing rather than finished. You will have meaningful authority over framework andcoveragedecisions along with responsibility for ensuring those choicesremainmaintainable as the product evolves.
What you will own
- End-to-end test strategy: what to automate what should remain exploratory or manual and where testing investment reduces the most risk.
- Playwright framework architecture including fixtures reusable utilities parallel execution tracing reporting and maintainability standards.
- UI API integration contract and data-layer coverage for critical workflows.
- Release-quality gates and risk-based recommendations about whether software is ready to ship.
- CI/CD test health including lower flake faster feedback and actionable failure reporting.
- Root-cause analysis of production incidents and escaped defects translated into durable regression coverage.
- Standards for AI-assisted test design and automation including human review and coverage-gap analysis.
- Technical mentoring and testability guidance for QA and development engineers.
What you would test
- Yard operations including lots pens feed delivery commodities animal-health records and treatments.
- Financial workflows including billing interest loans payments statements hedges and lender-facing reporting.
- Purchasing andlogistics including cattle records hauling dispatch and automated notifications.
- Customer workflows across web iOS and Android in English and Spanish.
What success looks like
- In your first60 days you assess current coverage test debt pipeline health and the highest-risk operational and financial workflows.
- Within six months youestablishthe framework architecture automation priorities ownership standards and initial release-quality gates.
- Within one year the team has materially better regressionsignal more stable automated coverage and a faster path from code change to trustworthy feedback.
What you bring
- Five or more years of experience in QA or SDET roles including substantial hands-on test-automation experience.
- A track recordof designing or significantly scaling a production test-automation framework not only writing individual tests.
- Deep practical Playwright or comparable modern automation experience including fixtures parallelization retries tracing and reporting.
- Strong programming or scripting experience in TypeScript Python C# ora comparablelanguage.
- Experience with API integration contract and CI/CD testing.
- Strong SQL skills for test-data setup financial and operational validation and investigation across application and database state.
- Risk-basedreleasejudgment and the ability to communicate that judgment to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving how a team designs for testability.
Helpful notrequired
- Mobile automation for native iOS or Android applications.
- Performance and load testing accessibility testing visual regression or security-testing fundamentals such as the OWASP Top 10.
- Internal quality tooling dashboards or production-telemetry feedback loops.
- Experience in agriculture fintechlogistics oranother operationally sensitive domain.
Technology
Our core testing environment includes Playwright Postman GitHub GitHub Actions Azure SQL Docker and AI-assisted test design and automation.
Location and employment
This position works onsite at our Meridian Idaho office five days per week and is not eligible for remote work. Relocationassistanceis not offered for this role.
This describes the positions standard work arrangement. Requests for reasonable accommodation will be considered through In Time Tecsestablishedinteractive process.
This position is employed by In Time Tec LLC. NextGenAgTechis the product organization you will support. Employment with In Time Tec is at-will.
Benefits
Benefits include medical dental and vision coverage; company-provided life insurance; a 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth contribution options; a Flexible Spending Account; an Employee Assistance Program; nine paid holidays; and five days of bereavement leave for an immediate family member.
This position is exempt andparticipatesin the companys Responsible Time Off program. Time off under that program does notaccrueor vest and is coordinated with your manager and team. Eligibility waiting periods coverage levels and other terms are governed by the applicable plans and company policies.
How to apply
Submit your resume and a concise example of a test-automation framework or strategy you designed or materially improved.Explain the problem the decision you made and the impact. A few paragraphs are sufficient; do not include confidential code or employer information.
Theanticipatedprocess includes an application review a recruiter conversation a hiring-manager interview a framework and risk-design discussion and a final team conversation. We will explain the format and expected time commitment before each stage.
Equal opportunity and accommodations
In Time Tec is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to anycharacteristicprotected by applicable law.
We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilitiessincerely heldreligious beliefs and pregnancy-related limitations. If you needa reasonableaccommodation to meet a requirement of this position or toparticipatein our hiring processcontact our Director of People & Operations KimberRussell (). Accommodation requests are handled separately from the review of your application.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
In Time Tec, a global software solutions company based in Meridian, Idaho, is hiring a full-time Senior QA Engineer / SDET Founded in 2009, In Time Tec is committed to creating abundance for our partners, employees, stakeholders, and the community. We partner with clients, often worki ... View more