Quality Assurance/Control (QA/QC) Senior Engineer

Job Description

Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love!

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.

What it is like to work here:

At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community.  To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.

Surround yourself with:

Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community.  Community is more than a place….its our heart and service that bring us together.

We encourage a work life balance:

Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck.  A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks.  We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year.  We work in a hybrid environment giving you flexibility to manage working from home and being in office.

Additional Benefits include:

• Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution

Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees

• Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
• 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
• Professional Development
• Plus: Onsite medical clinic, childcare and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.

 

JOB SUMMARY

 

Leads and performs enterprise-level quality assurance activities supporting Salt Lake County’s application development, digital services, and web platforms. Ensures software solutions meet business requirements, functional specifications, security standards, and user expectations through structured Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) practices.

 

Supports projects across IT and the County, and embeds quality practices throughout the system development life cycle to reduce risk, improve delivery outcomes, and ensure stable, secure, and maintainable systems.

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

 

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology (IT) or other closely related field, plus four (4) years of quality assurance and testing experience in a similar environment, size, and scope; OR an equivalent combination of eight (8) years of related education and experience, including at least four (4) years of quality assurance and testing experience in a similar environment, size, and scope.

 

One (1) year of experience of incorporating QA into CI/CD processes and working in a DevOps team is preferred.

 

Professional certifications in the QA and testing field (ASQ, ISO9000, IOSQA, CSQA) are preferred.

 

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Leads quality assurance activities across multiple IT projects and operational systems.
• Serves as the QA subject-matter expert for application development initiatives.
• Validates business requirements against delivered functionality.
• Identifies, documents, tracks, and verifies defect resolution.
• Defines, implements, and continuously improves QA standards and methodologies.
• Plans, designs, and executes functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing.
• Participates in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning.
• Embeds QA practices into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.
• Supports automated testing strategies where appropriate.
• Provides QA oversight for enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Identifies quality risks and recommends mitigation strategies.
• Maintains test plans, test ca