Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Volt Labs is building the infrastructure layer behind modern business messaging, focusing on compliance and operational complexity. They are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to define test strategies and build automation infrastructure while collaborating with various teams to enhance quality standards as the platform scales.
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously improve QA strategy, processes, and standards across engineering and product workflows
- Design and build automated testing infrastructure for platform reliability and release confidence Not just execute tests, but build the systems that run them
- Define and maintain test plans, regression testing, and release validation processes
- Identify gaps in testing coverage and operational risk areas, and drive resolution
- Partner with Engineering and Product to set and enforce quality gates in the development and release workflow
- Own staging and QA environment management within AWS, including deployment of code into pre-production environments
- Document bugs clearly with reproducible steps and business impact context
- Drive observability, monitoring validation, and production issue analysis
- Lead API testing, workflow testing, and operational scenario validation with an emphasis on back-end platform and infrastructure coverage over UI testing
- Actively support peers through knowledge sharing, filling coverage gaps, and contributing to team-wide quality standards, not just owning your own test surface
- Leverage AI tooling to improve test generation, bug analysis, automation, documentation, and troubleshooting
- Build and maintain scalable QA documentation, standards, and operational playbooks
Skills
- Proven experience in senior QA engineering, software testing, or release management
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing lifecycles, and test strategy at the system level
- Experience building and owning automated testing frameworks and infrastructure, not just using them
- Strong API testing and back-end platform testing experience
- Ability to think strategically about operational risk, edge cases, and quality at scale
- Comfort with AWS environments and the ability to manage deployments into staging and QA environments independently
- Strong documentation and communication skills
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering and Product teams, with the credibility to influence quality standards
- Ability to operate independently and drive quality initiatives while actively supporting and collaborating with a small, high-trust team
- A collaborative, low-ego approach to peer feedback and shared ownership of quality
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership expectations
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical mindset
- Actual, hands-on experience with AI-enabled testing workflows and agentic tooling, ideally in an environment that has made the shift from traditional QA practices
- Experience testing high-volume platforms or messaging systems
- Hands-on experience with AWS services relevant to deployment and environment management (ECS, CodePipeline, CloudWatch, or similar)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms
- Experience with performance or load testing at scale
- Familiarity with SQL and database validation workflows
- Experience building QA automation infrastructure from the ground up
- Deep familiarity with agentic tooling and AI-assisted QA at the team or org level
Company Overview
Volt sends and delivers SMS at scale with quick connections into our network of SMS partners and suppliers. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.textvolt.com.