Senior Engineer, QE at AlphaSense

About the Role:

As a Senior Engineer, QE, you own test strategy and coverage for your team’s features and act as a strategic quality partner to the engineers who build them. You design test plans, build and evolve automation frameworks, and embed quality-by-design.

You partner closely with developers, product managers, and platform teams to define test requirements, guide teams toward sustainable quality practices, and help us ship with confidence at velocity.

You will:

Define and execute test strategies across UI, API, and service layers to ensure comprehensive coverage. Develop and maintain reliable automation frameworks and performance testing suites. Utilize AI-assisted tools and agentic workflows to accelerate testing and debugging cycles. Lead risk assessments, release validations, and root-cause analyses for critical issues. Implement shift-left practices and enforce quality gates within development teams.

Desired Skills:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering roles
• Deep proficiency in testing TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend ecosystems (React, Webpack, or similar)
• Expert-level experience with Playwright or comparable browser automation frameworks (Cypress, Selenium WebDriver) for end-to-end testing
• Strong experience with unit and component testing frameworks such as Vitest, Jest, or React Testing Library
• Proven track record of designing and building test automation frameworks from scratch or significantly evolving existing ones at scale
• Solid understanding of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, GitLab or similar) and how to integrate and optimize test suites within them
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude for accelerating test authoring, code review, and debugging
• Hands-on experience with Allure or similar test reporting/analytics platforms
• Understanding of AI/ML-powered products and the unique testing challenges they present (non-deterministic outputs, data quality, model evaluation)
• Experience in SaaS, fintech, or market intelligence domains
• Familiarity with performance and load testing tools (k6, Lighthouse, Artillery)
• Familiarity with visual regression testing (Percy, Chromatic, Playwright visual comparisons)
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)