Senior Quality Engineer

Department: QA & Automation

Employment Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

About Samsung Food

At Samsung Food (you might know us as Whisk), we are pioneering the future of everyday care and health — helping individuals and families around the world live better through connected, proactive, and personalized experiences. Our mission is to connect food, health, and home across the Samsung ecosystem, turning data from your devices into personalized guidance that supports you and your loved ones.

We work at the intersection of AI, nutrition, behavior change, and digital health. The Samsung Food app was included in Google Play’s Best of 2020 Everyday Essentials list, has been regularly featured on the Apple App Store, and was nominated for a 2021 Webby Award. We’ve also launched Vision AI, which recognises food and meals using our global Food Genome, and developed deep integrations with Samsung Health and SmartThings.

We are a remote-first team of more than 100 people in over 30 countries, united by our commitment to innovation and impact. As part of Samsung Electronics, we combine the agility of a startup with the scale of the world’s largest consumer electronics company. Join us and help build technology that improves daily life for tens of millions of people across phones, wearables, TVs, and kitchen appliances in the years to come.

Learn more about how we’ve shaped a high-performing global team over the past 14 years.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to embed within a cross-functional squad and ensure that quality is built into the product from the outset and consistently delivered through modern engineering practices.

We are evolving toward a model where teams own quality and testing is integrated into development. This role is central to establishing how this is implemented and scaled across teams.

You will work upstream in planning and design, shape how testing is approached, and ensure that teams implement quality in a scalable and maintainable way

Responsibilities

• Own the quality approach within your squad, defining testing strategy based on product risk, system complexity, and delivery goals
• Drive quality upstream by working closely with Product and Engineering during scoping and refinement to ensure requirements are testable and well-defined
• Enable teams to own testing by guiding engineers in designing and implementing automated tests across different layers and ensuring testing is integrated into development workflows
• Shape how automation is implemented by defining testing patterns, boundaries, and contracts, ensuring automation is structured and maintainable
• Contribute hands-on where needed through exploratory testing in complex or high-risk areas and closing critical gaps pragmatically
• Ensure effective use of tooling and platform capabilities by driving adoption of shared frameworks, CI/CD practices, and quality standards
• Provide clear visibility into quality by surfacing risks, trade-offs, and coverage gaps to support informed decisions
• Contribute beyond your team by sharing practices and helping raise overall quality maturity across teams

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or QA within cross-functional teams
• Experience working on complex systems (e.g. APIs, distributed systems, or multi-layer applications)
• Strong understanding of testing across different levels (unit, integration, end-to-end)
• Practical experience with test automation and how it fits into modern development workflows
• Experience working in environments where teams own testing and quality
• Ability to guide teams on structuring test coverage and making pragmatic quality decisions
• Experience working with CI/CD and continuous delivery environments
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence engineers and product stakeholders
• Sound judgment in balancing quality, speed, and risk
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience building or maintaining automated test suites
• Familiarity with modern testing frameworks and tooling (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, REST-assured, Postman or similar)
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to test data management, mocking, or service virtualization
• Working knowledge of a programming or scripting language (e.g. JavaScript, TypeScript, Python)
• Experience working in cloud-based or distributed environments
  
  

How We Work

• Teams own quality
• Testing is integrated into development, not a separate phase
• Automation is a means to scale, not an end in itself
• Platform teams provide tooling and infrastructure; squads apply it
• Quality is driven by engineering discipline and product understanding
• We are exploring AI-assisted and agentic approaches to testing and quality as part of evolving how quality is engineered

What We Offer

• Contract-based, full-time role (40 hours/week, depending on workload) with a long-term commitment.
• 100% remote work.
• Join a supportive and dynamic team. In 2024, Samsung Food was recognized as a Most Loved Workplace® by the Best Practice Institute (BPI) for our outstanding team culture.