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Job Summary:
Align Technology is a company focused on improving consumer and professional experiences through technology, and they are seeking an Expert SQA Engineer. This role will lead quality engineering initiatives, establish testing strategies, and ensure high-quality outcomes for consumer-facing applications while collaborating with various teams across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Represent SQA as a technical authority in project and program-level discussions, collaborating across locations and functional divisions.
• Define and drive end-to-end test strategies covering functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring scalability and completeness.
• Create and audit test documentation (test plans, test cases, test reports) for quality, coverage, and adherence to standards.
• Iterate with stakeholders and business owners to clarify requirements and ensure testability and completeness.
• Test complex integrations across mobile, web, APIs, and distributed microservices-based systems.
• Own and govern defect lifecycle management, including root cause analysis and systemic quality improvements.
• Perform manual testing where needed to establish baselines and validate automation coverage.
• Architect, design, and evolve scalable automated test frameworks and suites across technologies.
• Validate complex API and web-based systems that integrate with back-end and third-party services.
• Create, maintain, and audit automated test assets, ensuring reliability, coverage, and maintainability.
• Design and integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality feedback.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed testability and quality requirements throughout the SDLC.
• Reproduce, debug, and isolate complex issues, validating fixes across environments.
• Work cross-functionally in a disciplined agile environment to ensure alignment on quality objectives.
• Estimate and plan testing activities while independently driving execution across multiple initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and structured coaching to SQA engineers and SDETs.
• Conduct detailed code reviews and audits of automation frameworks, test design, and implementation quality.
• Establish and enforce quality standards, best practices, and governance across teams.
• Participate in and lead performance testing strategies and analysis for web service architectures.
• Analyze test logs, telemetry, and metrics to improve coverage, reliability, and system quality.
• Perform and guide security and penetration testing practices in collaboration with security teams.
• Lead load, performance, and stress testing efforts, including bottleneck identification and optimization guidance.
• Ensure adherence to high-quality standards, compliance requirements, and audit readiness where applicable.
• Document processes, standards, and frameworks to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions across systems, integrations, and architectures.
• Propose and drive improvements to processes, tooling, and automation to increase efficiency, reduce toil, and improve quality outcomes.
• Other duties may be assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with ability to influence across multi-functional organizations.
• Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure environments while defining scalable, long-term solutions.
• Demonstrated track record of defining, implementing, and governing enterprise-level SQA processes.
• Proven track record in high-visibility, client-facing environments supporting multiple systems and technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries and influence without authority.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to operate in ambiguity and drive clarity through structure and strategy.
• High ownership mindset, creativity, and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• BS/MS degree or equivalent.
• 10+ years industry experience in QA, SDET, or Software Engineering roles with significant impact across teams or programs.
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with Build, Configuration, Change, and Release Management processes.
• Extensive experience with TDD/BDD and modern quality engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of full SDLC and quality engineering integration points.
• Proven experience with Python and Behave, or Java and Selenium, or similar technologies.
• Experience with JMeter, BrowserStack, LambdaTest or similar tools.
• Experience working with microservices architectures and API testing tools such as Postman/Insomnia.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across performance, reliability, and system stability.
• Ability to identify automation gaps, tooling needs, and drive efficiency improvements across development processes.
• Strong experience with Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps tooling such as Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, or equivalents.
• Demonstrated ability to define and track quality metrics and drive continuous improvement.
• Experience conducting audits, reviews, and enforcing engineering quality standards.
Preferred:
• Certification from ISTQB or equivalent is a strong plus.
Company:
Align Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets the invisalign system for treating malocclusion or the misalignment of teeth. Founded in 1997, the company is headquartered in Tempe, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.