Top Software Test Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Leads the design, evolution, and migration of enterprise test automation frameworks and infrastructure. Builds Playwright and C#/.NET web automation, REST API and database validation, parallel execution, ephemeral environments, and CI/CD testing workflows. Provides technical leadership, code reviews, mentoring, architecture guidance, and organization-wide automation strategy. Collaborates with engineering, DevOps, architecture, and QA teams to advance shift-left testing, continuous testing, reliability, and scalable cloud-native quality practices.

Design and maintain automated testing frameworks for cloud-scale distributed systems. Build performance, load, stress, integration, API, end-to-end, chaos, security, and infrastructure tests. Integrate continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines, analyze observability data, validate Kubernetes and microservices environments, and collaborate with Engineering and SRE teams to improve reliability. The role also participates in on-call rotations and helps establish QA strategy and standards across GPU infrastructure, serverless endpoints, storage, billing, and event-driven systems.

Develop and maintain automated UI and API test coverage, execute and analyze tests, perform exploratory and regression testing, investigate defects, and drive quality engineering improvements. Collaborate with software engineers and product managers on test strategies, contribute to technical designs, perform root cause analysis, and mentor junior engineers. The role also supports testing for performance, scale, security, and vulnerability concerns.

Entry-level software systems test engineer in a two-year rotational program supporting aerospace and defense applications. Responsibilities include developing and executing test plans, functional, regression, and performance testing, test automation, defect documentation, test data analysis, equipment calibration, and collaboration with engineering teams. The role involves hardware, firmware, and software testing and requires a technical degree, internship or co-op experience, programming familiarity, electronics knowledge, lab equipment experience, and eligibility to obtain a government security clearance.

Performs software verification and quality assurance for medical-device systems in standalone and hardware-in-the-loop environments. Develops and executes manual and automated test plans, validates technical and functional requirements, analyzes workflows and test results, documents findings, and recommends quality improvements. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering and QA teams to diagnose defects, resolve integration issues, and improve product configurations. The role is onsite at least four days per week.

Performs functional and automated testing for a SaaS life sciences platform. Responsibilities include creating test plans and cases, automating regression tests, triaging results, verifying releases, reporting defects, participating in Agile design reviews, advising on quality improvements, and providing technical guidance to junior teammates. The role also contributes to quality processes, code coverage practices, proof-of-concepts, and product expertise.

Design and scale automated test frameworks for Akamai’s custom Linux kernel, hardware compatibility, performance, reliability, security, and OS imaging. Develop hardware validation suites, support kernel and virtualization upgrades, troubleshoot low-level system issues, and improve continuous integration and testing infrastructure across AI and compute platforms.

Build and maintain cloud-native applications and services for Akamai’s IaaS platform. Develop platform features from requirements through design, testing, and deployment; integrate Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies; collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, and test engineers in an Agile continuous-delivery environment. The role focuses on creating scalable, reliable, secure platforms that simplify product development and user experience.

Develop and maintain automated test infrastructure for embedded firmware, running tests on Linux servers and physical devices. Build Python test harnesses, investigate failures, and distinguish firmware regressions from infrastructure issues. Support web services, REST APIs, hardware test equipment, and microcontroller-based systems. The role requires Linux, Git, automated testing, debugging, and familiarity with embedded systems, while collaborating across global teams.

Develop scalable test automation frameworks, QA tools, and intelligent testing systems using Playwright, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, build end-to-end, integration, and performance solutions, and apply AI techniques to improve test generation and defect detection. Partner with engineering and QA teams, troubleshoot reliability issues, contribute to test strategy, and mentor colleagues on automation and modern testing practices.

Build and maintain integration and end-to-end testing frameworks across backend and frontend systems. Optimize CI/CD test execution, establish repository testing standards, develop mocking and service-isolation tools, and improve test coverage. Explore AI-driven test generation, regression detection, and flaky-test analysis. Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot failures, monitor test-suite and pipeline health, and deliver scalable quality improvements.

Develops and executes manual and automated tests for electrophysiology software, including user interfaces and algorithms. Creates test scripts, debugs automation frameworks, documents results, reports defects, and supports test strategy and data setup. Collaborates with software, hardware, field support, and Scrum teams in a Linux environment using Python and various testing and development tools. The role involves electronic lab equipment and medical device quality practices.

Develop test automation tools and frameworks for cloud-based products and AI features, including skills, agents, and MCP servers. Automate test execution against deployed environments in collaboration with DevOps, identify and prioritize defects with application developers, and support QA needs through daily cross-functional communication. The role is remote, aligned to Eastern U.S. hours, with approximately two weeks of travel annually and occasional off-hours support.

Defines and executes manual and automated software test cases for medical device products, validates results against specifications and requirements, documents test activities, maintains test fixtures, investigates issues, and escalates findings in a regulated environment. Collaborates on technical reviews, prepares project documentation, and supports testing of embedded Linux systems, Windows services, SQL platforms, and virtual environments.

Own test strategy for a portfolio of government web applications, build automated regression suites, integrate testing into CI/CD, and lead four test engineers. The role replaces manual regression, improves release confidence and delivery speed, and embeds security into development pipelines. Responsibilities include coaching government testers and engineers, communicating readiness to nontechnical stakeholders, and supporting adoption of sustainable testing practices in a U.S. Air Force environment.

Designs and maintains automated test frameworks for Keeper Secrets Manager APIs, SDKs, integrations, and cloud services. Builds API, integration, and end-to-end tests; integrates automation with CI/CD pipelines; manages Docker and Kubernetes test environments; validates authentication workflows; analyzes failures; and partners with engineering and DevOps teams to improve system testability, reliability, and security.

Owns VM and fleet test strategy, performance quality gates, and hypervisor validation for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like test environments, develops automated performance benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses and analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in virtualization, Linux systems, performance engineering, statistical analysis, and cross-architecture debugging.

Own the end-to-end testing strategy for a SaaS platform, including manual and automated testing, test tooling, environments, test data, regression, functional, performance, chaos, integration, and data-quality testing. Build test automation, integrate tests with Jenkins, manage defects and test cases, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, maintainable software.

Designs and implements manual and automated tests across unit, component, integration, and end-to-end levels. Builds scalable UI and API automation frameworks, conducts performance and load testing, creates test reports, investigates regressions, and provides testability feedback. Collaborates with engineering, product management, and UX teams in an agile environment. The role requires Python and JavaScript automation expertise, cloud and container experience, CI/CD familiarity, SQL, and knowledge of microservices.

Lead test strategy for Akamai’s custom Linux kernel and OS imaging process. Design scalable automated test frameworks, validate hardware compatibility, performance, reliability, and security, and develop test suites for new hardware platforms. Troubleshoot low-level system issues, enhance build and continuous testing infrastructure, establish quality standards, and mentor junior engineers.

Own end-to-end verification and validation for complex cloud-native software systems. Design comprehensive testing strategies, build scalable backend and frontend automation frameworks, identify coverage gaps, perform root cause analysis, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve testing efficiency. Apply AI-assisted tools to testing and debugging, evaluate emerging AI capabilities, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards across teams.

Designs and executes automated and manual testing for web, desktop, mobile, and API platforms. Builds scalable test automation frameworks, integrates test suites into CI/CD pipelines, and tests file management functionality including syncing, sharing, storage, and data integrity. Investigates defects, performs root-cause analysis, creates test plans, and collaborates throughout the software development lifecycle to improve product quality and reliability.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for AI-powered applications, APIs, backend services, and distributed systems. Defines test strategies, acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, tolerances, and quality gates for deterministic and non-deterministic software. Builds regression, integration, API, and end-to-end coverage; evaluates LLMs, agents, prompts, and tool-calling workflows; integrates testing into CI/CD; analyzes failures, telemetry, and logs; reduces flaky tests; and partners with AI, engineering, and product teams on continuous quality practices.

Build production-grade test automation infrastructure across API, integration, end-to-end, contract, regression, load, and performance testing. Develop Playwright suites, integrate automated tests with GitHub Actions release gates, create AI-assisted test generation workflows, maintain coverage dashboards, reduce flakiness, and establish performance-testing frameworks. Partner with engineers and product managers to define coverage, acceptance criteria, performance thresholds, and quality standards across the organization.

Design and execute reliability, safety, performance, functional, integration, and regression testing for Atlas humanoid robot software. Develop test automation, conduct hardware-in-the-loop testing, monitor system reliability, report release readiness, manage defects, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve software quality processes and test coverage.