Senior Level Software Quality Assurance Jobs
Senior level software quality assurance jobs place experienced professionals in charge of quality strategy, test architecture, and the engineering standards that entire product teams depend on. Roles are spread across on-site, remote, and hybrid settings in Technology & Software, Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, and Healthcare & Medical Services, with employers like Medpace, Fortinet, and TP-LINK hiring at this level now.
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About This Position
The Software Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for managing testing and verification of software solutions developed at Primerica. The ideal candidate is highly technical and has a proven commitment to quality with a solid understanding of testing concepts, practices and procedures. As a QA Manager, your primary responsibility will be to ensure strategic planning and implementation of SQA processes and to build effective test plans, test cases to explore and validate the functional correctness of our applications. This is a Hybrid Role – 2 days in office (Tue/Wed).
Location: Duluth, GA
Salary range between $110K - $135K Annually
Responsibilities & Qualifications
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Serve as a hands-on leader, driving quality assurance across web, mobile, API, mainframe and database, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and secure.
- Define and execute a forward-looking QA strategy that supports modernization initiatives (cloud migrations, mobile framework upgrades, re-platforming) while maintaining stability in legacy systems.
- Establish and manage KPI, KRI, RTM, standards, and processes to measure and continuously improve organizational quality maturity, including automation coverage, effectiveness, and ROI metrics.
- Actively contribute to test planning and execution by determining optimal test approaches across functional, regression, integration, performance, compliance, and UAT phases.
- Partner with product, development, and operations teams to align QA with business priorities, ensuring automation is applied where it adds maximum value and quality is built into delivery pipelines.
- Provide input and estimates to project planning activities for SQA tasks, including contributing to evaluation of automation feasibility, prioritization, and effort vs. value, and ensure timely and accurate status reporting of QA tasks, risks, and issues.
- Contribute to the design of extensible test automation harnesses to efficiently expand automation coverage across platforms.
- Drive process innovation and continuous improvement across QA practices, tools, and cross-team collaboration.
- Serve as project leader on large, complex projects; manages all aspects including planning, scheduling meetings, documenting decisions, making appropriate updates to test plan and strategy.
- Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation to prevent recurrence of critical issues.
- Directly supervise and mentor SQA engineers. Supervisory responsibilities including performance management, staffing, employee relations & compensation.
- Provide support as a subject-matter expert (SME) for applications and QA processes, including test strategy, automation coverage, and quality engineering practices.
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Proven ability to lead by example as a hands-on QA practitioner, earning credibility in both manual testing leadership and automation strategy.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to scale QA teams while remaining actively involved in test strategy, planning, and decision-making.
- Excellent communication and executive presence to present QA metrics, risks, and recommendations with authority grounded in hands-on knowledge.
- Deep knowledge of testing methodologies and QA tools, with a record of applying them directly in complex projects.
- Expertise in multi-platform QA (mainframe, web, mobile, APIs, databases) with practical, hands-on experience.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including debugging and root cause analysis of complex, cross-system issues.
- Ability to balance strategic direction with day-to-day technical contribution, ensuring QA maturity and delivery speed.
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance testing and ability to execute compliance-focused test cycles.
- Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and hybrid delivery models, combined with hands-on experience embedding QA in those environments.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to mentor through direct involvement, fostering collaboration and team development.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/technology/engineering, information technology, or equivalent discipline required.
- 10+ years of progressive QA experience in enterprise-scale environments, with consistent hands-on involvement in testing.
- 5+ years in a QA management role, balancing leadership responsibilities with direct contribution.
- Strong experience in web, mainframe, API, mobile, including devices, simulators/emulators, and cloud-based test platforms.
- Experience in estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating testing activities, including decisions on test approach and automation prioritization.
- Strong hands-on test case and test protocol writing skills.
- Proficiency in test case design, execution, and documentation using multiple testing methodologies (functional, regression, integration, exploratory, performance).
- Experience with modern test and defect management tools (Jira, TestRail, ALM, or equivalents).
- Hands-on experience testing SOAP and REST APIs with Postman or equivalent tools.
- Familiarity with compliance and regulatory testing in financial or other highly regulated domains.
- Demonstrated success in QA leadership for modernization initiatives, with continuous personal involvement in testing and validation activities.
FLSA Status
This position is exempt (not eligible for overtime pay): Yes
Our Benefits
- Day one health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) Plan with competitive employer match
- Vacation, sick, holiday and volunteer time off
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account
- Professional development
- Tuition reimbursement
- Company-sponsored social and philanthropy events
It has been and will continue to be the policy of Primerica, Inc., and its subsidiaries to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, sex, color, religious creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, pregnancy, ancestry, military service or veteran status, genetic or carrier status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any classification protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. At Primerica, we believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to our future and our mission – creating a foundation for a creative workplace that leads to innovation, growth, and profitability. Through a variety of programs and initiatives, we invest in each employee, seeking to ensure that our people are not only respected as individuals, but also truly valued for their unique perspectives.
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Senior Level Software Quality Assurance Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level software quality assurance job?
Employers hiring at this level look for candidates who have owned test strategy end-to-end, not just executed it. Demonstrated experience designing automation frameworks from scratch, identifying systemic quality gaps, and influencing engineering culture gives a strong edge. Showing that you have mentored junior testers and partnered directly with product and engineering leadership signals the ownership mindset these roles require.
Which companies hire senior level software quality assurances?
Companies hiring senior level software quality assurances right now include Medpace, Fortinet, and TP-LINK, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Hiring at this level tends to concentrate in large technology companies, enterprise software firms, and regulated industries like financial services and healthcare that require rigorous quality oversight.
Are there remote senior level software quality assurance jobs?
Yes, remote and hybrid availability is strong at this level. About 29% of senior level software quality assurance openings are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting how many engineering organizations have normalized distributed quality teams. Senior roles in particular often remain flexible because the work centers on strategy and collaboration rather than physical lab environments.
What makes a software quality assurance role senior level?
Senior level software quality assurance roles are defined by scope, ownership, and influence. You are expected to design and govern the overall test strategy, make architectural decisions about tooling and automation infrastructure, and set quality standards for the broader engineering organization. Mentoring junior and mid-level QA engineers and driving alignment between QA, product, and development are core responsibilities, not secondary ones.
Which industries hire the most senior level software quality assurances?
Senior level software quality assurance roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, and Healthcare & Medical Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they ship complex, high-stakes software at scale and need experienced quality leaders who can enforce standards across large, fast-moving engineering organizations.