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Senior Manual QA Engineer

Seekr · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

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About Seekr

Trusted AI for critical infrastructure to deliver secure, explainable agents across cloud, on-prem, and edge with rapid time to impact.

About the role

Seekr builds trust into every stage of the AI lifecycle — providing a complete platform to build, train, validate, securely deploy, and monitor transparent generative AI applications and agents. We're hiring a Senior Manual QA Engineer to partner with our Manual QA Lead and raise the quality bar across Seekr's entire product suite.

What they're looking for

  • AI tooling & MCP integration: Use Claude AI and MCP server integrations daily for test case generation, defect analysis, and knowledge base contributions, evaluate and validate AI-generated and agentic workflow outputs
  • Regression & release ownership: Co-own regression strategy and end-to-end release validation cycles with the Manual QA Lead, drive release readiness tracking and milestone reporting
  • API & technical testing: Perform advanced manual API testing, build and maintain Postman collections, apply boundary analysis, equivalence partitioning, exploratory testing, and risk-based coverage
  • Defect management & comms: Triage and log defects in JIRA with executive-ready clarity, proactively flag risks with context and recommended actions via Slack and email
  • Requirements analysis: Analyze requirements for ambiguity and testability, contribute to SDLC and systems integration process improvements across the engineering org
  • 5+ years as a Software QA / Test Engineer with a strong, demonstrable focus on manual testing
More about this role

About the Opportunity

Seekr builds trust into every stage of the AI lifecycle — providing a complete platform to build, train, validate, securely deploy, and monitor transparent generative AI applications and agents. We're hiring a Senior Manual QA Engineer to partner with our Manual QA Lead and raise the quality bar across Seekr's entire product suite.

You will be a force multiplier in mentoring junior engineers, championing AI-augmented QA workflows including Claude AI and MCP integrations, and driving quality outcomes with minimal direction. You'll work directly with modern agentic tooling from day one and be expected to lead its adoption within the QA practice.

Key Responsibilities

  • Test strategy & execution: Design and execute functional test cases, suites, and plans for UI and API surfaces in TestRail (incl. MCP + Claude AI integration); lead test plan reviews and peer approvals for junior engineers
  • AI tooling & MCP integration: Use Claude AI and MCP server integrations daily for test case generation, defect analysis, and knowledge base contributions; evaluate and validate AI-generated and agentic workflow outputs
  • Regression & release ownership: Co-own regression...

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