QA Systems Engineer

ScienceLogic is redefining IT operations for the modern enterprise. Our AIOps platform empowers organizations to achieve Autonomic IT — where systems are self-healing, self-optimizing, and seamlessly aligned with business outcomes. We help enterprises and service providers gain unified visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, automate workflows, and unlock performance at scale.
We’re accelerating digital transformation through the power of automation, AI, and analytics — giving IT and business leaders the tools to deliver superior customer experiences, drive efficiency, and innovate with confidence.

QA Systems Engineer

What we are looking for…

We are looking for a QA Systems Engineer to own and evolve a critical engineering lab environment that supports product development, testing, and validation. This role combines infrastructure ownership with hands-on QA engineering, acting as “Customer Zero” to ensure product quality in real-world scenarios before release.

You’ll work across cloud and on-prem environments, collaborate with multiple engineering teams, and play a key role in ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.

What you’ll be doing….

• Coordinate testing activities across shared lab resources and multiple engineering teams

• Manage, maintain, and optimize lab infrastructure used for development and testing

• Deploy and upgrade applications across lab environments and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Develop and maintain simulators and mock devices to support internal testing needs

• Partner with QA leads to review and approve test plans and UAT standards

• Design and execute backend, end-to-end, security, and performance tests

• Generate and present reports (defect, execution, summary) for Product and Engineering stakeholders

• Identify, provision, and scale resources to ensure lab reliability and performance

• Conduct scale testing and capacity planning analysis

Qualities you possess….

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• 3–7 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud management, software testing, or QA engineering

• Strong experience with both manual and automated testing methodologies

• Proven ability to design and execute backend, end-to-end, security, and performance tests

• Solid troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills

• Experience creating test plans, strategies, scopes, and automation frameworks

• Deep understanding of QA methodologies (black box, white box, gray box, test design, execution)

• Strong understanding of SDLC best practices

• Experience writing SQL queries for backend validation (MySQL, Oracle)

• Knowledge of enterprise networking concepts (SNMP, MIBs, clustering)

• Proficiency in scripting/programming (e.g., Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Ansible, REST APIs)

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development and testing tools (e.g., Codex, Tabnine, Claude) to improve test design, automation, and troubleshooting efficiency

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail

Nice to Have

• Experience testing across Linux, Windows, and macOS environments

• Experience working in Agile development environments

• Familiarity with automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, TestCafe, BDD)

• Ability to present findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience with hardware or software-defined simulation tools

• Strong project planning and resource coordination skills

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans.

• 401(k) plan with employer match.

• Flexible Paid Time Off (FTO) so that you can take the time that you need to re-energize.

• Volunteer Time Off (VTO) - take two days off per calendar year to volunteer with your preferred charitable organization.

• 5-year Service Milestone Sabbatical.

• Paid parental leave.

• Generous employee referral bonus program.

• Pet insurance.

• HQ Office centrally located in Reston Town Center featuring a well-stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages, and catered lunch on Thursdays.

• Regular virtual company-wide events, including cooking classes, yoga, meditation and more.

• The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At ScienceLogic, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which you are applying.

ScienceLogic is a leader in IT Operations Management, providing modern IT operations with actionable insights to resolve and predict problems faster in a digital, ephemeral world. Its solution sees everything across cloud and distributed architectures, contextualizes data through relationship mapping, and acts on this insight through integration and automation.

www.sciencelogic.com