Senior Quality Engineer

Overview

Quality owner for the StarRez Go mobile app, a staff-facing iOS and Android companion to the main housing platform used in the field for inspections, check-ins, maintenance and resident lookup. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with no people management.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end test strategy for the StarRez Go app.
• Set the quality bar for the mobile team and coach peers in quality practices so quality is built in at every stage.
• Raise quality concerns early when quality is slipping.
• Champion StarRez's quality standards and advocate for quality across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Design and execute validation strategies for feature-related initiatives.
• Partner with Product, Design and Engineering from ideation through delivery to ensure acceptance criteria, personas, customer journeys, test data, edge cases, non-functional expectations and quality gates reflect real user operations.
• Decide what is automated, manual and exploratory, and be able to defend each decision.
• Own backward compatibility, define and test version support for older app versions remaining in the field after a release.
• Apply AI tools and techniques to improve product quality and the effectiveness of quality engineering practices.

What you'll need

• 5+ years in software or quality engineering, with a deep focus on quality in complex systems.
• Hands-on experience testing native or cross-platform mobile apps on iOS and Android, including tablets.
• Experience testing mobile apps used in field or operational settings.
• Experience testing APIs and back-end services and the integration between a mobile client and its back end.
• Solid understanding of the testing pyramid, and of when UI automation and manual testing are each appropriate.
• Experience with cloud device farms or third-party testing platforms, and judgement about when outsourced tooling is the right choice.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and release quality gates, including test suite selection and environment readiness.
• Ability to turn customer needs into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria and risk-based test scenarios.
• Practical experience using AI in software development, with sound judgement about where it helps and where it doesn't.
• Genuine curiosity about customer workflows and the business impact of engineering decisions.

Nice to have

• Understanding of mobile security and data privacy, including device-level access control and handling personal data.
• Experience in SaaS, education, or property technology.
• Strong root cause analysis across client, API and infrastructure failures.
• Experience with mobile release processes: store submission, staged rollout, feature flags.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.