Senior Software QA Engineer (Manual + Automation)

Azenta Inc.

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Accountability, Teamwork, Employee Value and Integrity

Job Title

Senior Software QA Engineer (Manual + Automation)

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Software QA Engineer with strong capabilities across manual, automation, and performance testing to join our growing global digital team. These are individual contributor roles that will work across web properties, applications, and platform layers to ensure quality, scalability, and reliability from the ground up. 

The ideal candidate is experienced in full-stack QA workflows, can build and execute end-to-end test strategies, and is capable of standing up frameworks, tooling, and processes. This is a hybrid QA role designed for engineers who thrive in fast-paced 0-to-1 environments and want to contribute to building a world-class testing discipline. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Design and execute test plans, test cases, and scripts across functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, and performance test types 

• Lead the creation and maintenance of automation frameworks using modern tools (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium) and scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.) 

• Test across platforms, including web, mobile, API, and cloud-based applications 

• Conduct performance testing using tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner 

• Collaborate with Developers, Product Managers, and Designers in an Agile environment to define QA requirements early in the development lifecycle 

• Contribute to CI/CD testing integration using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar tools 

• Implement and champion QA best practices, documentation standards, and defect tracking protocols 

• Partner with engineering and product teams to evaluate release readiness, identify risk, and support sign-off on production releases 

• Evaluate and propose modern or AI-enhanced testing tools to improve automation, coverage, and test efficiency 

• Participate in building test coverage across complex data-driven, AI-enabled, and enterprise-scale SaaS products 

Required Qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience in software QA engineering, with a blend of manual and automation expertise 

• Strong coding ability in at least one scripting language (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java) 

• Proficiency with modern QA tools such as Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Postman, JUnit/TestNG, etc. 

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and test integration (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) 

• Experience testing across full-stack environments (React, Node, AWS, etc.) 

• Familiarity with testing APIs, browser-based applications, and responsive UIs 

• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills 

• Proven ability to contribute in a global Agile environme