Senior Quality Engineer

<p>As a <strong>Senior Quality Engineer</strong> at Smartly, you will define and scale quality standards across our Product & Engineering organization. Operating within a small, lean group, this role is highly visible to engineering leadership and offers the opportunity to make a massive impact across the entire company.</p> <p>Your success will be defined by your ability to build deep, trusted partnerships with engineering teams and align them with modern quality standards. You will act as a coach and catalyst - pairing with teams to uplift their practices, leveraging AI for high-velocity delivery, and ensuring quality is seamlessly integrated into how we scale.<br><br>Working closely with our Staff Quality Engineer, Principal Engineers, and Infrastructure teams, you'll champion engineering excellence through hands-on collaboration and guidance.</p> <p>We are technology-agnostic but currently rely on TypeScript, Playwright, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, BigQuery and Sentry. You should be comfortable getting acquainted with new tools and approaches quickly.</p> <h2><strong>As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will...</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Build deep working relationships with Engineering Managers and leadership to champion engineering excellence and drive adoption of modern quality practices.</li> <li>Partner directly with engineering teams by pairing on active tasks. Show them firsthand how to deliver fast with a predictable level of quality, establishing self-sustaining mechanisms so they can maintain this velocity without your active involvement.</li> <li>Champion the use of self-service quality tools and guardrails. Your focus will be on getting teams to seamlessly incorporate these tools into their daily operations to ensure quality at scale.</li> <li>Package the best practices and insights gained from pairing into robust, self-service quality tools and frameworks. This tooling will embed quality guardrails directly into daily operations, allowing engineering teams to maintain high standards at scale without your active, day-to-day involvement.</li> <li>Dive into quality indicator metrics to identify trends, handle ad-hoc analytical requests, and translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What we are looking for...</strong></h2> <ul> <li>7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Engineering, or Developer Experience (DevEx), with a proven track record of leading cross-team initiatives and driving process improvements through collaboration.</li> <li>Proven ability to build strong relationships with Engineering Managers and influence the entire product organization</li> <li>You are persistent, highly autonomous, and comfortable operating in a tiny team. You don't wait for