Senior QA Engineer

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $136M ARR and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join our team!

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to help ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of Backblaze products across UI and API experiences. This role will serve as a trusted quality partner to Product and Engineering, owning end to end testing and helping define a strong quality strategy across new and existing features. The ideal candidate brings deep QA experience, strong automation skills, a thoughtful approach to test design, and the ability to improve testing workflows through AI, process enhancements, and close cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Understand Backblaze products and its software stack.
• Own end to end testing across UI, API and serve as a trusted quality partner for product and development teams.
• Advocate for testability across the software and collaborate with product owners for well defined acceptance criteria.
• Define test strategy and write structured test plans for new features being developed.
• Design and automate tests in python/javascript and contribute to current test harnesses.
• Perform functional, integration and regression testing for Backblaze API and user flows.
• Leverage AI to enhance these workflows and accelerate testing.
• Interact with developers to clarify functionality and facilitate defect resolution by identifying, recording and verifying software issues.
• Define and implement QA process improvements.

The Right Fit Has

• Experience with API testing and understanding of cloud storage concepts.
• 10+ years of QA experience with focus on testing at scale.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills with a keen eye for detail.
• Strong experience with scripting and test automation software (such as Selenium or Playwright).
• Can utilize AI tools in a manner advantageous to testing and advocates for AI adoption.
• Familiarity with TestRail or a similar test case management software and JIRA or another project and issue-tracking software is needed. Other relevant software: Jenkins, GitHub, Postman
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and well-versed in SDLC processes
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to clearly and simply convey complex concepts.
• Experience with performance and security testing is a plus.
• Cross platform experience (Mac/Windows/Linux)

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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