Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer/Verification Engineer

Company Overview

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. At Joby, we've been working to make that dream a reality since 2009 and we're now in the final stages of certifying our aircraft with the FAA. With plans to launch our aircraft in the US and Dubai, we're now scaling manufacturing and preparing for the launch of our commercial service.

Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer/Verification Engineer to establish and lead quality engineering practices across the software development lifecycle. This role will define scalable QA processes, build and evolve test automation, and partner with cross-functional Agile teams to ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality software products.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on testing and automation experience with the ability to influence engineering practices, mentor team members, define quality metrics, and guide release-readiness decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the QA strategy, quality roadmap, processes, standards, and operating model.
• Build and implement a formal QA process from the ground up, covering manual and automated testing.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, business analysts, UX, DevOps, and other stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and validate requirements.
• Develop test strategies, test plans, estimates, traceability, and detailed test cases for functional and non-functional testing.
• Design, implement, maintain, and scale automated test frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and promote continuous testing practices.
• Perform and guide functional, exploratory, regression, integration, end-to-end, API, mobile, accessibility, compatibility and performance testing.
• Apply risk-based testing to prioritize coverage based on customer impact, technical risk, and release scope.
• Lead user acceptance testing and support release-readiness and go/no-go decisions.
• Define and monitor quality metrics such as automation coverage, escaped defects, defect trends, regression duration, and release quality.
• Manage defects through their full lifecycle and communicate quality risks, status, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
• Mentor QA engineers, provide technical guidance, and help build a high-performing quality engineering team.
• Drive continuous improvement and advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance or quality engineering.
• Proven experience creating a software quality process and QA strategy from scratch.
• Experience building, mentoring, or helping scale a software quality team.
• Strong experience designing test strategies, test plans, test cases, and requirements traceability.
• Hands-on experience with Application Programming Interface (API) testing using tools such as Postman and automated Application Programming Interface (API) testing frameworks.
• Experience designing or extending automated test frameworks and writing automated tests.
• Experience with UI automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating automated tests into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Experience with functional, exploratory, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with performance, accessibility, mobile, cross-browser, and compatibility testing.
• Experience leading user acceptance testing and supporting release decisions.
• Excellent communication, organization, prioritization, and time-management skills.
• Intermediate English proficiency (B2 or higher), with the ability to participate in technical discussions with international teams.

Desired

• International Software Testing Qualification Board  (ISTQB) Foundation Level certification or higher.
• Experience with test management and defect-tracking tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Xray, or Zephyr.
• Experience testing REST or GraphQL Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and microservices.
• Exposure to reliability, resilience, or scalability testing.

Your Reward for Greatness

• Organize your time with our balanced, flexible daily schedule.
• Work comfortably from home with our Work From Home (WFH) options.
• Fuel your office days with delicious free lunch
• Level up your global career with master-level English classes.
• Invest in your knowledge growth with continuous learning subsidies.
• Stay connected and productive with our monthly internet subsidy.
• Get active and stay fit with our versatile sports subsidy.
• Access quality care for you with our evolving medical health plan.
• Earn more time for your priorities with additional Personal Time Off (PTO) as you grow here.
• Get rewarded for your impact with our yearly performance bonus.