Software Engineer - QA Senior (US)

About Aerostrat

Aerostrat is a fast-growing B2B SaaS company building a complete maintenance planning solution for the aviation industry. Our core product, Aerros, enables our customers to plan all the maintenance on hundreds of aircraft in a matter of minutes. Our solution helps customers understand the cost and efficiency of their maintenance operations while giving them the confidence to make data-backed business decisions. Over the past 10 years, Aerostrat has achieved a customer base that includes some of the world’s most well-known airlines and aircraft operators. Aerostrat’s success to date has been driven by a lean team focused on transforming complex asks into an easy-to-use product.

About this role

As a QA focused Senior Software Engineer at Aerostrat, you'll play a critical part in helping us build high quality experiences for our customers. You will build test automation and any related infrastructure needed to better understand the state of our product, validate user flows, improve the end-user experience, and integrate quality into every stage of development. Our QA software engineers ensure that customers continue to love our product through improvements in reliability, performance, security and more.

Having at least five (5) years of experience with test automation at all levels (unit / integration / API / E2E) and test infrastructure is mandatory. Expertise with the Playwright framework is critical. At least four (4) years of direct work experience writing high-quality production-level code in Python is required. Additionally, a deep understanding of other types of testing such as performance, security, accessibility and more is very important.

As a member of our small but growing engineering team, you'll need to be a self-motivated, high-impact and driven individual that goes out of your way to learn about and produce the best solutions for our customers. You will have no direct reports, but you will serve as a technical mentor and subject matter expert, helping to guide QA practices and raise the overall quality bar for the organization. Because our team is so lean, you will have a real opportunity to contribute to the direction of the product and see your ideas in make it into production on a regular basis.

In this role, you will...

• Learn everything there is to know about aviation maintenance planning through our on-boarding process (so don't worry if you do not have any experience in this industry!)
• Lead the design and scaling of API / E2E test automation to ensure our products are in the best state possible for our customers
• Architect other test and quality infrastructure to improve quality of our product (perf, security, mobile, etc.)
• Coordinate bug bashes and manually test our product where automation gaps exist
• Play a crucial role in the development of new features through design feedback, proposing acceptance criteria, and testing new features as they are developed
• Deliver reliable, high-quality, expert-level code with speed and care
• Utilize our monitoring / APM tools to analyze metrics, investigate issues and propose changes to improve our performance and user experience
• Investigate complex customer issues to identify bugs, verify reproduction steps and propose fixes

This role is great for you if...

Compensation

Benefits

$110,000 - $150,000 a year

Why Aerostrat

As a Software Engineer - QA at Aerostrat, you will be a critical part of our growth journey. You will have a direct impact on the continued success of our existing product and play a foundational role in the development and refinement of our product offerings. Aerostrat products are developed with direct feedback from our customer base, and as part of our team, you will have opportunities to work closely with customers and have a voice to shape the direction of our products.

At Aerostrat we pride ourselves on our excellent work environment with a fully remote team and tools, flexible hours, and a strong focus on results - not how many hours you spend available on Slack. Working at Aerostrat will offer you an opportunity to solve real customer problems, foster a healthy work-life balance, and make a huge impact on a highly successful product used by many of the airlines behind your travel and the packages shipped to your doorstep.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.