Software Quality Assurance Engineer Senior

Software Quality Assurance Engineer Senior

Work Flexibility:
Onsite

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at  .

Are you a quality engineering leader who believes automation, architecture, and collaboration are essential to delivering world-class software?
We are seeking a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer with deep expertise in test automation and quality engineering to help define, scale, and continuously improve quality practices across our platform. In this role, you will operate as a technical leader—owning automation strategy, designing scalable automation frameworks and influencing engineering design, and ensuring quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.
You will contribute to Facilities—our SaaS and IoT platform powering Organize, Operate, and Optimize, enabling intelligent buildings through real-time insights, scalable cloud services, and edge computing capabilities. You will help ensure these systems meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and maintainability.

• Play a senior, high impact role in shaping quality engineering practices across a SaaS + IoT platform.
• Work on technology that directly impacts smart, sustainable buildings, at global scale
• Partner closely with experienced software engineers and product teams to influence system design, automation strategy, and release confidence.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers in a global, product driven organization.
• Join a product‑driven, global organization that values technical leadership, with competitive compensation, strong benefits, and clear opportunities for technical leadership growth.

• Own and evolve the test automation strategy across web applications, APIs, and backend services.
• Architect and maintain scalable, maintainable automation frameworks aligned with engineering standards.
• Act as a quality engineering partner to software developers, influencing design decisions to improve testability and resilience.
• Drive end-to-end quality ownership, including functional, integration, regression, and nonfunctional testing.
• Ensure automated tests are fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines, acting as quality gates for deployments.
• Lead defect prevention through root cause analysis, quality metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor and guide other QA engineers, raising the overall automation and quality maturity of the team.
• Perform targeted exploratory testing for complex, high-risk scenarios not easily covered by automation.
• Participate actively in agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and estimation, representing quality considerations at a senior level.

• 7+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with significant focus on test automation.
• Experience designing and scaling automation frameworks for modern web and service-based systems.
• Extensive experience testing RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and service integrations.
• Hands‑on expertise with automation tools such as Robot Framework (preferred), Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, or equivalent.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops or similar Dev Ops platforms like Git Hub, Git Lab or Atlassian tool suite
• Deep understanding…