Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Cloud Services)

Location: On-site in Irvine, California, United States

Salary: $135,000–$170,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides networking devices, cloud services, and smart home products used by customers in more than 170 countries.

What you will do

• Own quality planning, test strategy, execution, coverage, and release readiness for cloud service projects and backend systems.
• Analyze distributed systems and microservices architectures to identify quality risks and testing opportunities.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, API, database, end-to-end, performance, scalability, reliability, and resiliency testing.
• Design, develop, maintain, and improve automated test frameworks and scalable test suites.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and use APIs, databases, logs, and monitoring tools for backend validation.
• Collaborate on architecture and requirements, investigate defects, perform root cause analysis, mentor junior engineers, and improve quality practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in software quality engineering, backend system testing, or cloud service testing, including defining test strategies and leading quality initiatives.
• Strong understanding of microservices and large-scale distributed systems, with hands-on RESTful API and backend testing experience.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS or another major cloud platform, and performance, scalability, reliability, and resiliency testing.
• Proficiency in Python or Java and experience developing automated test frameworks and scalable test automation solutions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, debugging, root cause analysis, and cross-functional communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with IoT cloud platforms, networking products, or smart home services.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, cloud security, and observability tools.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing tools such as GitHub Copilot.
• Mandarin and English bilingual proficiency.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with partial dependent coverage.
• 401(k) contributions, 15 accrued vacation days, and 11 paid holidays.
• Bi-annual pay increases and health and wellness benefits, including a gym membership.
• Quarterly team-building events and collaboration with engineering teams across global locations.
• Work on large-scale distributed systems, IoT platforms, and cloud services supporting millions of connected devices and users.