PayPal Sr Quality Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

26132550

This job is an independent contributor who collaborates internally to enhance the quality and efficiency of processes. They address quality issues by determining appropriate actions outside defined processes and oversee team performance. This role involves implementing testing, inspection, and auditing processes to uphold quality standards while engaging in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product and service quality.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implement testing, inspection, and auditing processes to maintain quality standards.
• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product and service quality.
• Architect and implement robust, highly scalable test automation frameworks to support comprehensive testing needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate quality assurance into the development lifecycle and support the implementation of PayPal products.
• Monitor system performance, proactively troubleshoot issues, and drive root cause analysis to resolution.
• Conduct in-depth requirement analysis to assess testability and identify potential risks early in the product development cycle.
• Plan and execute test strategies, including detailed test plans and scripts, for each release to ensure product quality.
• Lead defect management, including tracking, triaging, and driving resolutions during user acceptance testing.
• Execute automated test scripts using advanced automation tools, ensuring efficiency and accuracy in testing processes.
• Perform exploratory, usability, and functional testing to uncover edge cases and improve the user experience.

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

As a Quality Engineer you will:

• Understand customer, business, and technical requirements to develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans, test cases, and bug reports.

• Oversee the lifecycle management and execution of test plans for both manual and automated testing to certify all releases.

• Analyze test results,identify

• Work closely with developers, emphasizingto them the importance of responsible, quality testing practices

• Document andmaintaintesting procedures, guidelines, standards, and protocols.

• Contribute to building andmaintaininga regression suite that coversend to endtesting of applications.

• Continually seek opportunities to improve,optimizeand simplify existing testing processes and methodologies, using automation when possible.

• up-to-date

• Participate in program planning, influencing the product andtechnologyroadmap and driving outcomes.

We are looking for someone who has:

• 6+ years of hands-on experience with software testing.

• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.

• Familiar with coding skills in at least one programmatic language.

• Good knowledge of tools like Postman for API testing.

• Good knowledge of performance testing and accessibility testing.

• Experience inworking with multiple and/or remote teams in different time zones.

• Experience with Xcode / Android Studio IDE.

• Experience inworking with Jira,Confluenceand TestRail.

• Strong attention to detail, as well as a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions and compelling customer experiences.

• Strong problem-solving skills,possessingthe ability to work independently or collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges.

• Ability to mentor and up level team members.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and those in non-technical roles, such as marketing, finance, and legal.

• Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $111,500 to $191,950

Our Benefits:

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