Senior Software Quality Engineer

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$153,200–$221,750 / yr
Posted
67 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $169k
This role $187k
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This role pays more than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$187,587 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $187k versus about $169k for comparable roles.

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About Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

Adobe currently has 218 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,100–$270,950 across 216 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Quality Engineer

As a Senior Software Quality Engineer on a founding team, you will establish quality standards and own the end-to-end strategy for a new, AI-first web application. You will build and maintain modern web test automation using Playwright, Cypress, and TypeScript or JavaScript to ensure performance, accessibility, and cross-device reliability. Your daily work involves creating evaluation harnesses for automated workflows, including golden prompt suites, regression baselines, and hallucination checks. You will integrate quality into CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with engineering and product teams to embed testability early in the development cycle. The role requires expertise in API testing, performance monitoring using tools like Datadog or Splunk, and designing test strategies for LLM-powered features. This position addresses the complexities of building a real-time web product featuring prompt layers and agentic workflows within an emerging AI field.

What you'll do

  • Own the end-to-end quality strategy for an AI-first web application across prompt layers and in-browser experiences.
  • Build and maintain modern web test automation using Playwright or Cypress with TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Develop evaluation harnesses for automated workflows, including golden prompt suites and hallucination checks.
  • Ensure product performance, resilience, accessibility (WCAG), and cross-device coverage.
  • Integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions and reduce flake.
  • Advise engineering teams on test strategies, automation patterns, and shift-left methodologies.
  • Monitor production telemetry to generate pre-submit signals for the development team.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.
  • Candidates must have 8+ years of experience in customer-facing software quality or SDET positions.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript is required for web test automation.
  • Experience with modern web frameworks like Playwright or Cypress is required.
  • Experience designing test strategies for AI, ML, or LLM-powered features is required.
  • Strong fundamentals in API testing, performance/load testing, and observability tools are required.
  • Ability to ensure product quality regarding performance, accessibility (WCAG), and cross-device coverage is required.
  • Prior experience with creative tools, design-to-code, or real-time collaboration stacks is preferred.

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