Hercules · 1 month ago
Sr. QA Engineer
Campbell, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expHerculesAI is a company that helps finance and operations leaders solve complex problems through automation. The Sr. QA Engineer will lead quality initiatives throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring product reliability and performance by collaborating with various teams and managing release processes.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyMachine LearningSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end product quality and integrate QA across the SDLC (shift-left, CI/CD quality gates, test evidence as part of “definition of done”)
Own Release Management: plan releases, cut release candidates, manage freeze windows, lead go/no-go, coordinate phased rollouts (flags/canary), and execute rollback plans
Design and maintain automation for UI, API, component, and E2E tests in partnership with all Engineering teams; establish non-functional baselines (performance, security, accessibility, resilience)
Design, own, and evolve performance and stress testing (load, capacity, scalability): define SLIs/SLOs, create repeatable perf/stress suites, profile bottlenecks, and gate releases via CI/CD and PRV
Translate business initiatives into clear acceptance criteria and measurable Success Criteria Docs (KPIs, telemetry, rollout/rollback triggers)
Partner with Engineering, Product, AI, and DevOps to ensure observability, PRV (post-release verification), incident retrospectives, and continuous improvement of quality KPIs
Qualification
Required
6–10+ years in QA/Software Engineering, including ownership of release management and large-scale test automation
Proficiency in Python (test harnesses, AI/LLM eval tooling, CI utilities) and ReactJS (TypeScript preferred) for UI testability reviews and building test fixtures/mocks
Hands-on with modern delivery stacks (microservices, containers/K8s, CI/CD) and test frameworks (Playwright/Cypress, PyTest/JUnit/TestNG, k6/JMeter for performance)
Demonstrated experience validating AI/LLM features (prompt testing, guardrails/red-teaming, offline/online eval alignment)
Strong systems thinking and risk-based testing; fluency in telemetry/observability (logs, metrics, traces) and security/a11y/performance gates, including capacity planning and perf profiling
Excellent communication skills for turning ambiguous requirements into unambiguous, testable criteria and leading cross-functional quality reviews
Company
Hercules
HerculesAI helps finance and operations leaders solve problems that are too complex, large-scale, or time-consuming for human teams to manage alone.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$38.23MKey Investors
StreamlinedNFX
2024-05-30Series B· $26.11M
2022-03-01Series A· $12M
2020-05-10Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Alex Babin
CEO/Co-Founder
Recent News
Indico Capital Partners
2025-10-27
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