Senior Quality Engineer, 8am
$160-180k
Plus annual bonuses and equity options
Professional business platform for client-focused professionals
Be an early applicant
Professional business platform for client-focused professionals
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
Plus annual bonuses and equity options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering, preferably in SaaS environments
- Highly self-directed: able to own your workload, define your own test approach, and drive quality without waiting to be told what to cover
- Hands-on experience testing both UI (browser-based) and API layers, with a strong grasp of REST API testing concepts
- Proficiency with Postman or equivalent REST clients for exploratory and structured API testing
- Working knowledge of Python sufficient to read, write, and contribute tests to an existing pytest-based automation framework
- Comfort navigating multi-tenant, API-driven SaaS platforms and understanding how platform-level changes ripple across features
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proficiency working in shell environments like bash or zsh, especially for searching and reading log files
- Proficiency with test management tools such as Qase
- Familiarity with version control using Git, both in the CLI and through services like Bitbucket and GitHub
- Experience managing locally hosted test environments using tools like Docker
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to process improvements
- Basic understanding of containerization, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI)
Desirable
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails applications—comfortable reading logs, navigating the stack, and understanding application behavior without needing to write application code
- Experience with Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium for UI test automation
- Knowledge of foundational nonfunctional testing (performance, accessibility, security)
- Experience with microservices architectures and distributed systems
- Certifications such as ISTQB or CSTE
- Familiarity with AI-assisted testing tools and leveraging LLMs as a productivity-boosting tool
What the job involves
- 8am is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to join our LawPay team. At 8am, quality is not a phase—it’s a mindset woven into every conversation, decision, and line of code
- As a senior member of the team, you’ll leverage your deep testing expertise to drive quality improvements that impact not just your immediate team, but the broader engineering organization
- You’ll mentor junior engineers, contribute to process improvements, and take ownership of quality initiatives that protect and enhance our customers’ experience
- Work effectively as an embedded engineer on a scrum team, and across teams when user features span multiple teams, contributing meaningfully to technical discussions
- Design and execute comprehensive test strategies across UI and API layers, ensuring they reflect real customer scenarios
- Write high-quality test cases that tell a story about customer interactions, and maintain them throughout their entire lifecycle
- Contribute tests to our Python/Playwright/pytest automation framework, expanding coverage for both UI and API scenarios
- Champion the customer experience at every stage of development, viewing deliverables through the customer’s lens
- Identify and document defects with comprehensive root cause analysis
- Drive continuous improvement in our Defect Leakage Rate, recognizing that every bug reaching production erodes customer trust
- Proactively engage with Product Owners and Product Management on feature feasibility, testability, and requirement clarification—raising concerns before work enters the sprint, not after
- Become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for specific technical areas or product components
- Collaborate with SDET team members and developers to determine which tests are high-value candidates for automation
Our take
Many professionals find their time taken up by administrative tasks and operational processes, leaving them fewer hours to focus on the work they love. 8am (formerly AffiniPay) supplies finance, payments and management software to make these processes swifter and easier, saving users precious time.
The company has a wide range of products including payments and reporting for accountants, legal case management software, and operations assistance for nonprofits. This broad scope allows 8am to serve a myriad of professionals across legal, accounting, construction, design and association.
The company has seen significant investment which has allowed it to grow, innovate and extend its suite of solutions. Its rebrand to 8am followed a series of acquisitions through which it expanded its scope - with the various products now delivered under one unified brand.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Wide range of affordable, company-supported medical, dental, vision, and disability plans
- Reimbursements for whatever helps you bring the WOW, whether that’s health and wellness or learning
- Mental health support and an Employee Assistance Program
- Access to cutting-edge conferences, professional manager coaching and ongoing professional development
- Bonuses and unit options as part of our total rewards packages
- Team meetings, company-wide all-hands, and offsite events
- Office, remote & hybrid work options
Company HQ
Davenport Ranch West, Austin, TX
Leadership
Dru Armstrong
(CEO)Advisor for Women@Austin and Board Member at YPO. Former CEO of Grace Hill, and co-founded and was CEO at Lily Pod.
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