Slingshot Aerospace - QA Automation Engineer

• We're building a team of sharp, creative people who love solving hard problems. Bring your expertise, your perspective, and your drive—we'll bring the rocket fuel. • Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It) • Quality Engineering & Test Automation • Design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions across UI, API, integration, and end-to-end workflows. • Continuously expand automated test coverage using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. • Partner closely with developers to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure quality is built into every release. • Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and quality processes that support rapid product development. • Product Quality & Validation • Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to review requirements, acceptance criteria, and user stories to ensure clear, testable outcomes. • Validate front-end, back-end, and AI-enabled functionality across multiple products and platforms. • Identify, document, and track defects through resolution using established quality assurance methodologies. • Assess production readiness and validate release quality prior to deployment. • Platform & Integration Testing • Develop and execute API, integration, and backend validation testing using modern testing frameworks and tools. • Verify data integrity, system interoperability, and reliability across connected services and external integrations. • Design and execute performance and scalability testing scenarios to evaluate system responsiveness and stability. • Troubleshoot issues related to APIs, databases, and distributed system interactions. • Release Management & Continuous Improvement • Support weekly production releases through testing coordination, validation, and stakeholder communication. • Deliver demonstrations of completed functionality and provide feedback to development teams. • Analyze quality trends and recommend improvements to testing strategies, tooling, and processes. • Help shape the future of quality engineering at Slingshot by introducing new tools, frameworks, and best practices. • Pre-Flight Checklist • 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Software Testing, or Quality Engineering. • Experience designing and implementing automated testing strategies and frameworks. • Proficiency with UI automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. • Experience testing modern web applications built with technologies such as React, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, and Docker. • Strong understanding of APIs, backend services, and databases, including REST, GraphQL, and SQL. • Experience working within CI/CD environments and modern software development workflows. • Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams. • Experience owning end-to-end quality certification for major product releases. • Experience testing AI-enabled products, machine learning workflows, or data-driven applications. • Experience with performance, load, integration, and API testing frameworks. • Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM), authentication, and authorization concepts. • Experience documenting manual test cases and maintaining test repositories using tools such as TestRail. • Experience supporting release management activities in fast-paced SaaS environments. • Interest in space, aerospace, defense, or national security technologies. • Active TS/SCI clearance. • We're building a constellation here, not looking for identical satellites. Every member of the team brings different capabilities to the same mission. If your orbit intersects with ours and you're mission-ready, send it. • Location: Remote, United States