Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance

This is a remote position. About Alternative Path Alternative Path is a strategic operations consulting firm, founded in 2020, that helps growth-stage and enterprise organizations build high-performing, India-based teams across Technology Ops, Data Ops, Business Intelligence, and Finance. Every engagement is senior-led, and the firm has delivered 50+ engagements for clients across the US, Europe, and Australia.

Job Description

-Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance Experience: 3–5 Years Location: Remote We are looking for a passionate and proactive Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance to join our team and help build a modern, AI-driven Quality Engineering practice.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on functional testing experience, solid expertise in test automation using Playwright, and a genuine interest in using AI across the software testing lifecycle. This is not a traditional QA role.

We expect the candidate to actively use AI to improve the way testing is planned, designed, automated, executed, analyzed, and continuously improved.

The candidate should be comfortable experimenting with AI tools, building reusable AI workflows, creating Skills and AI Agents, and evaluating the quality and reliability of AI-generated outputs.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities – Quality Engineering Understand business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product workflows to identify functional and non-functional testing requirements. Design, execute, and maintain effective functional, regression, integration, API, and end-to-end test scenarios.

Identify critical business flows, risks, edge cases, negative scenarios, and boundary conditions. Develop and maintain robust UI automation using Playwright. Execute automated regression suites, analyze failures, and identify the root cause of failures rather than simply reporting failed tests.

Identify, log, track, prioritize, and verify software defects throughout the development lifecycle. Collaborate closely wi