Sr QA Engineer

Support Center - Washington, DC

Full-time - Mid Level

Washington, DC

Management of Companies and Enterprises

About the position

The Senior Software Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer at CAVA is responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive test plans, cases, and scenarios throughout the product delivery cycle. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality software solutions, identifying and managing defects, and developing automation and performance testing strategies. The engineer will also assess technical risks and contribute to the overall software development lifecycle, ensuring adherence to best practices and security standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop comprehensive test plans, cases, and scenarios based on product or feature requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional scrum team to understand project goals and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Identify, document and manage issues found in software and collaborate with software engineers through resolution.
• Implement and develop software testing patterns, automations, and best practices to ensure code quality and scalability.
• Assess technical risk through automation, integration, or system test results leveraging.
• Develop performance and load test suites to assess scalability and resiliency issues.
• Provide feedback and recommendations to developers on software usability and functionality.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies, apply them to improve software development processes.
• Develop and document standards methods, or procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.
• Test software components and systems, including unit testing, integration testing, system testing and end-to-end testing.
• Develop supplemental software to promote quality and consistency in the SDLC.
• Provide technical support and assistance to resolve issues reported by end-users.
• Maintain version control using tools like Git to track changes in the codebase.
• Coordinate user and/or third-party testing of software.
• Ensure testing frameworks and test cases adhere to security and data protection.
• Contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, from initial concept and design to deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• Abide by policies and procedures that support the service mindset.
• Manage timeline expectations within and across teams, deliver on our responsibilities accordingly.
• Earn the trust of Team Members and Managers by consistently embracing CAVA s values.
• Show discipline in bringing consistent performance, communication, and attitude to the job every day.
• Actively contribute to your department in order to complete tasks and meet company goals.
• Recognize the emotional stake each Team Member has in personal and organizational success of this business.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of working experience in software engineering and digital product delivery.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience leveraging current technologies and tools relevant to QA engineering.
• 3+ years of QA Tooling Exposure including Accessibility: WCAG 2.0, Level Access, Axe DevTools, TalkBack, VoiceOver; Cross-Browser: Browserstack, LambdaTest; Testing: WebdriverIO, Cypress, Apium, Cucumber, Postman, Jest, ESLint; Performance: Loadster, JMeter.
• Usage of devops tooling such as Jira, Zephyr, CircleCI, or similar.
• Familiar with modern analytics and marketing tools such as Firebase, GA4, Braze, or similar.
• Strong grasp of business processes, operations, and metrics.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with performance testing tools like Loadster and JMeter.
• Familiarity with accessibility testing tools and standards.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies and practices.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, plus bonus and long-term incentives
• Early Wage Access
• Unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, plus paid opportunities to give back to the community
• Health, Dental, Vision, Telemedicine, Pet Insurance plus more
• 401k enrollment with CAVA contribution
• Company-paid STD, LTD, Life and AD&D coverage for salaried positions
• Free CAVA food
• Casual work environment
• Opportunity to be on the ground floor of a rapidly growing brand