Senior QA Engineer

At Corsha we're not just selling software; we're fundamentally reshaping how the most critical industrial and operational technology (OT) systems are secured. We're a cybersecurity startup in the DC area, driven by a mission to bring trust, resilience, and identity to the operational systems that power our world – from factories to power grids. We're building the future of machine identity security, and we need a tenacious quality engineer to join our front lines.

If you're an engineer who takes personal stake in improving product quality, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and has a passion for building robust testing frameworks, then read on. We move fast, we build for impact, and we need a strategic, data-driven thinker to help us ensure our solutions are reliable and production-ready for the machines that matter most.

As a Senior Quality Engineer on our Quality team, your mission is to architect, scale, and maintain automated testing frameworks for our Machine Identity Platform (mIDP). You will serve as a quality champion-defining test strategies, eliminating automation friction, and empowering engineering teams to ship resilient OT security solutions with high confidence.

• Automation Strategy & Execution:
  Define, implement, and execute testing strategies for platform releases, covering backend services, proxy traffic, identity gatekeepers, frontend UIs, containerized deployments, and network configurations.
• Framework Code Ownership:
  Become a core code owner for both backend and frontend test automation repositories, taking personal stake in continuous refactoring, code reviews, and framework scaling.
• Pipeline & Tooling Integration:
  Build seamless integrations between automated test suites, test case management tools, continuous integration pipelines, and internal engineering tools to minimize feedback loops.
• Leverage AI for Quality:
  Research and evaluate AI/LLM-assisted developer tools to accelerate testing workflows, focusing on automated test case generation, prompt engineering for edge-case coverage, and optimizing framework code maintenance.
• Failure Diagnostics & Debugging Data:
  Automate test suites so that when a test fails, it automatically captures all relevant container logs, proxy traffic traces, and system error logs needed for developers to immediately reproduce and fix the bug.
• Security & Network Traffic Verification:
  Execute backend commands and inspect real-time network traffic to validate identity gatekeepers, access control proxies, and mTLS access policies.
• Defect Triage & Stabilization:
  Investigate failing test runs, diagnose root causes, write necessary code fixes for automated tests, and systematically eliminate flaky tests to ensure reliable gating.
• Meticulous Test Case Design:
  Partner with developers and functional leads upfront to translate complex platform features into comprehensive test cases within enterprise test management systems.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven Technical QA
  
  Experience:
  
  5+ years of hands-on experience architecting test automation frameworks and validating complex backend, proxy, and security infrastructure environments.
• Test Strategy Expertise:
  Demonstrable ability to design detailed test plans for new platform capabilities that anticipate complex system failure modes.
• Framework Mastery:
  Practical experience architecting backend and system automation suites in…