Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer

About the Role 

• We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to build and maintain automated quality coverage for Carta maintenance and regression cycles. This role helps the team improve release confidence without creating brittle automation. 

• Carta is Access's enterprise document and workflow platform family, including CartaHR, CartaDC, and CartaAP.  

• CartaHR is a cloud-based HR document management system that centralizes employee records for fast, secure, and compliant access from anywhere.  

• The broader Carta codebase also powers document retrieval, scheduled processing, integrations, workflow automation, retention controls, and customer-specific deployments across the Carta product suite. 

• This team is focused on maintaining, stabilizing, and modernizing the existing codebase. No net-new product functionality is expected as part of this staffing model. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Build and maintain automated tests for critical UI flows, APIs, and integration-heavy maintenance scenarios. 

• Work with developers to improve testability and identify stable automation targets. 

• Integrate automated checks into CI/CD and release-readiness workflows where practical. 

• Use SQL and API knowledge to validate behavior beyond the UI layer. 

• Help define where manual testing remains the better fit and where automation should expand. 

• Coach QA teammates on automation-friendly test design and reusable test assets. 

Required Skills & Experience 

• 5+ years of QA automation experience in web and API-driven systems. 

• Hands-on experience with UI automation, API testing, and scripting or programming for test development. 

• Strong understanding of maintainable automation design and flakiness reduction. 

• Ability to debug failures caused by data, environment, contracts, or timing issues. 

• Strong collaboration habits with engineering teams. 

Qualifications 

• Cypress, Jest, Postman or equivalent API automation experience preferred. 

• SQL validation experience preferred. 

• Strong communication and quality ownership. 

Core Competencies 

• Automation strategy 

• Technical problem solving 

• Quality advocacy 

• Collaboration 

• Continuous improvement