Senior QA Engineer

About Makai

Makai uses best-in-class Al and data to solve real-world operational and strategic challenges at scale. Our Makai Automation Platform consists of a library of pre-built components and modules to facilitate enterprise automation via a unified human-machine teaming interface. Until now, people have had to learn and adapt to software. Makai creates solutions that adapt to people because technology will never be 100% accurate. People are essential for all of our human-machine teaming solutions, as they serve as the final firewall for accuracy and quality.

About the role

Makai is looking for a proactive Senior QA Engineer to join our growing team as a key contributor and leader within our QA practice. This is a contract-to-hire remote role in which you will be the hands-on expert driving quality initiatives, ensuring product reliability, performance, and user satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional QA Experience, with a proven track record in testing complex web applications.
• Expertise in Modern QA methodologies, test design techniques (e.g., equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis), and mastery of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing Life Cycle (STLC) within Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban)
• Proficiency in database testing: Practical experience writing complex SQL queries to validate backend behavior, ensure data integrity, and perform data/setup/teardown for test scenarios in relational databases (e.g. SQServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Foundational test automation experience with tools like Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium
• Ability to read and understand code in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python to support test analysis and future automation initiatives.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and a methodical approach to testing.
• Fluent English (written and spoken)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with Developers, Product O