Staff Software Engineer, QE

About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com . Come join us. About the Role: As a Staff Quality Engineer on the Content Portfolio team, you will own and drive test strategy, build automation frameworks, and embed a culture of quality ownership across the engineering organization. Your deep expertise in automation, cloud services, Kubernetes, and modern programming languages will directly shape how we test, release, and deliver reliable software at scale. You will partner closely with developers, product managers, and platform teams to define test requirements, architect quality infrastructure, and ensure AlphaSense ships with confidence at velocity. You will: • Lead the development of test automation frameworks across UI, API, and GraphQL layers, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and speed • Design and integrate AI evaluation frameworks to assess accuracy, consistency, and reliability of LLM-powered features • Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude to accelerate test creation, debugging, and code generation • Lead technical implementation of performance testing and monitoring solutions • Develop custom reporting and analytics tools to provide insights into test coverage, flaky test rates, and quality metrics • Drive adoption of newer testing technologies and approaches • Optimize test execution pipelines for faster feedback in CI/CD environments • Partner with development teams to implement shift-left testing practices and embed quality ownership within teams • Lead root cause analysis for critical issues and drive systematic improvements to prevent recurrence • Participate in code reviews to ensure testability and quality considerations are addressed early • Provide technical mentorship to QE engineers on automation best practices, framework usage, and AI tooling Desired Skills: • 8+ years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering roles with at least 2 years operating at a Staff/Lead level. • Deep proficiency in testing TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend ecosystems (React, Webpack, or similar). • Expert-level experience with Playwright or comparable browser automation frameworks (Cypress, Selenium WebDriver) for end-to-end testing. • Strong experience with unit and component testing frameworks such as Vitest, Jest, or React Testing Library. • Proven track record of designing and building test automation frameworks from scratch or significantly evolving existing ones at scale. • Solid understanding of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, Gitlab or similar) and how to integrate and optimize test suites within them. • Experience with GraphQL APIs - Writing integration tests, mocking schemas, and validating query/mutation contracts. • Familiarity with performance and load testing tools (k6, Lighthouse, Artillery). • Experience with visual regression testing (Percy, Chromatic, Playwright v