Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Velotic™ is a leading independent industrial software company providing data‑driven solutions that improve manufacturing efficiency, productivity, and operational insight. Serving customers across manufacturing, oil & gas, utilities, and infrastructure, the company generates more than $300 million in revenue. Velotic’s portfolio, anchored by Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx, supports the growing data and performance requirements of industrial operators globally, with an emphasis on AI‑enabled manufacturing and industrial software.

Role Summary/Purpose

Responsible for programing a component, feature and or feature set. Works independently and contributes to the immediate team and to other teams across business. Contributes to design discussions.

Essential Responsibilities

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
• Ability to take ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members.
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices.
• Demonstrates awareness or product positioning and key differentiation.
• Expert in writing test cases and automate them that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project.
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.
• Promotes transparency by proactively sharing test design choices with appropriate audiences, with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness.
• Demonstrates expert understanding of functional and nonfunctional requirements and their priority within the backlog.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience

Technical Expertise:

• Take full ownership of assigned tasks and deliver high-quality outcomes with minimal supervision, while exercising judgment to seek guidance when required.
• Collaborate with Quality Leaders and development teams in designing and reviewing test strategies and test plans for new features and enhancements.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks and test scripts to ensure coverage of critical functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develop effective, maintainable tests following industry best practices, ensuring tests remain reliable even when code is refactored.
• Participate in system-level and integration testing, validating interactions between multiple components and services.
• Contribute to scalability testing, performance validation, and reliability assessments where applicable.
• Implement and configure testing tools and automation frameworks and provide guidance or mentorship to junior QA engineers when needed.
• Demonstrate proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language to develop automation solutions and test utilities.
• Work with QA automation tools such as Selenium, LoadRunner, JMeter, Playwright, Cucumber, or similar tools to automate test scenarios.
• Perform test refactoring, code reviews, and improvements to automation frameworks to ensure long-term maintainability and efficiency.
• Maintain strong documentation practices, including test cases, automation design, test results, and defect reports.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to identify, reproduce, and resolve defects, ensuring timely bug tracking and verification of fixes.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines by integrating automated tests and supporting build and deployment processes using tools such as Jenkins.
• Participate in test planning, test execution, and release readiness activities to ensure overall product quality using tools like qTest, Sales Force and ADO
• Hands-on experience in performance testing and analysis is considered an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience in cloud technologies is considered an added advantage.