Software Quality Engineer

ZipLiens

. Own quality for a feature or product area, including risk-based test strategy, regression scope, and release sign-off .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeFranklin • Tennessee • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $77,000 - $104,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance for software features, including risk-based testing, automated test suite development, and LLM evaluation. Proficient in collaborating with engineering teams to shape acceptance criteria and ensure comprehensive test coverage.

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Automated Test Suite DevelopmentExploratory TestingAI/LLM EvaluationCI IntegrationSQL and PostgreSQL

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Hard Skills

Test AutomationTest DesignPythonDjangoReactPlaywrightCypressPytestSQLLLM Testing

Soft Skills

Clear Written Communication

Tools & Technologies

CI PipelinesAgentic Coding ToolsAWSKubernetes

Industry Keywords

HIPAADocument ProcessingUnstructured DataContract TestsSensitive Data

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCypressDjangoKubernetesPostgresPythonReactSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own quality for a feature or product area, including risk-based test strategy, regression scope, and release sign-off
Build and maintain automated test suites integrated with CI
Troubleshoot flaky tests and fix underlying causes
Run exploratory testing against lien workflows and understand application risk areas and failure modes
Test LLM-based features by building evaluation suites, setting acceptance thresholds, checking LLM-judge agreement with human labels, and adding adversarial and prompt-injection cases
Use agentic coding tools to build and maintain automation and review AI-generated tests
Shape Acceptance Criteria with the Product Owner and identify testability gaps before development
Recommend coverage and risk priorities
Shepherd defects from triage through resolution and write reproducible reports
Work directly with embedded engineering teams day to day

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years on a QA or software development team, including experience owning test coverage for a feature or product area
Strong skills in at least one of exploratory testing and test design, test automation and infrastructure, or AI/LLM evaluation, with working proficiency in a second
Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites in a modern framework (Playwright, Cypress, pytest, or similar), including diagnosing flaky tests and fixing their root causes
Comfortable reading and writing code; ability to understand Python/Django and React changes and their risks
Experience integrating tests into CI pipelines and deciding which checks should gate a merge or a deploy
Strong SQL and experience with PostgreSQL
Hands-on experience testing LLM or ML features, including building golden datasets, measuring output quality, and understanding failure modes
Experience using or experimenting with agentic coding tools and judging when their output needs closer review
Clear written communication for defect reports, test plans, and release sign-offs
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without employer-sponsored visa support now or in the future
Nice to have: experience testing document processing or extraction from unstructured data
Nice to have: experience testing third-party integrations using contract tests, sandboxes, or recorded fixtures
Nice to have: familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes
Nice to have: experience handling sensitive data such as PHI or working under HIPAA-style requirements

Benefits

Comp & perks

Private Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
Company HSA contributions for HDHP participants
Flexible Spending Accounts (Health & Dependent Care)
Company-Paid Short-Term Disability Coverage
Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Life, AD&D, and Supplemental Coverage Options
401(k) Plan with Company Match
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick Time & 10 paid Holidays)
Parental Leave
Discretionary quarterly bonus