Senior Quality Engineer

About StarRez

StarRez is the global leader in student housing software, providing innovative solutions for on and off-campus housing management, resident wellness and experience, and revenue generation. Trusted by 1,400+ clients across 25+ countries, StarRez supports more than 4 million beds annually with its user-friendly, all-in-one platform, delivering seamless experiences for students and administrators. With offices in the United States, Australia, the UK, and India, StarRez blends the robust capabilities of a global organization with the personalized care and service of a trusted partner.

• Role:

As a Senior Quality Engineer - you will play a pivotal role in elevating our quality practices across StarRez communication, Marketplace, System Administration and Maintenance systems. You will be an expert within our product engineering organization, deeply understanding user and product behaviour, customer journeys, business rules, and the systems that support StarRez personas. This role will balance hands-on individual contributor responsibilities with leading, influencing, and coaching your peers.

This individual contributor role is for someone who is passionate about seeing systems holistically, has a strong vision for product quality, and is eager to drive the highest standards of customer experience, functional correctness, usability, accessibility, reliability, performance, and release confidence. You will leverage your deep understanding of SaaS product behaviour, end-to-end workflows, integrations, environments, and customer operations to guide and influence our development process.

Your role is not to manage a team, but to be a quality champion who partners directly with developers, product managers, designers, support, implementation, and customer-facing teams. You will help teams anticipate risk, clarify expected behaviour, validate business logic, protect the customer experience, and build more robust, scalable, and reliable conference and event products. At the core of this role is a strong focus on the customer experience; success means our platform behaves predictably, is easy to use, and enables our resident communities to thrive.

• What You Will Own:

• Own and drive end-to-end quality for the StarRez Foundations product team.
• Champion StarRez's quality standards by establishing, maintaining, and advocating for quality gates and rapid feedback loops throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Design and execute testing, validation and risk mitigation strategies for feature related initiatives.
• Partner with Product, Design and Engineering from ideation through delivery to ensure acceptance criteria, personas, customer journeys, test data, edge cases, non-functional expectations, and quality gates reflect real customer operations and the intended product experience.
• Champion shift-left quality culture by mentoring developers, product managers, and design partners on testing principles, behavioural specifications, clear acceptance criteria, early validation, fast feedback loops, and production-quality observability.
• Work effectively with ambiguity, proactively designing quality solutions based on evidence when clear requirements, behaviour definitions, customer workflow expectations, or quality baselines do not yet exist.
• Champion test automation best practices, create clear testing standards, and coach engineers to take shared ownership of building and maintaining automated tests.
• Apply AI tools and techniques to improve product quality and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of quality engineering practices and processes.
• Own production defect triage for your product domain, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Support to assess impact, prioritise fixes, identify root causes, and drive preventative quality improvements.

• Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of progressive software engineering or quality engineering with deep focus on quality in complex, distributed systems environments
• SQL. Required for test data setup, backend validation, data integrity checks across integrations, and root cause analysis.
• Tech stack context (.NET/C#, SQL Server, Azure).
• API testing tooling (Postman, REST Assured, or similar).
• Cloud platform exposure (Azure/AWS).
• Proven track record advocating for quality and ability to influence technical direction through innovative, pragmatic, and evidence-based approaches.
• Hands-on experience working with web-based products, including front-end behaviour, API, service integration and functional end-to-end testing.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Practical experience integrating automated tests and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Build-kite, or similar platforms.
• Experience contributing to deployment and release quality gates, including test suite selection, environment readiness checks.
• Genuine curiosity and passion for understanding product architecture, user experience flows, customer workflows, analytics use cases, and the business impact of engineering and data decisions.
• Experience utilising AI in modern software development.

• Reasons to join our team:

• Opportunity to be a part of a well-established, high-performance company that has been in business for over 30+ years
• Full benefits including health care, paid time off, and others
• A supportive team environment with emphasis on learning and development opportunities
• Our Promise: You will learn, grow, and be appreciated for your impact and contributions.
• Z-Factor: Our most celebrated value, you will work with a team of caring, high-performing, and passionate people who have fun supporting our vision, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Even if you don't have all of the Qualifications listed above, but feel you have what it takes to succeed in the role, we would love to hear from you!

StarRez is an equal opportunity employer.

• 5+ years of progressive software engineering or quality engineering with deep focus on quality in complex, distributed systems environments
• SQL. Required for test data setup, backend validation, data integrity checks across integrations, and root cause analysis.
• Tech stack context (.NET/C#, SQL Server, Azure).
• API testing tooling (Postman, REST Assured, or similar).
• Cloud platform exposure (Azure/AWS).
• Proven track record advocating for quality and ability to influence technical direction through innovative, pragmatic, and evidence-based approaches.
• Hands-on experience working with web-based products, including front-end behaviour, API, service integration and functional end-to-end testing.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Practical experience integrating automated tests and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Build-kite, or similar platforms.
• Experience contributing to deployment and release quality gates, including test suite selection, environment readiness checks.
• Genuine curiosity and passion for understanding product architecture, user experience flows, customer workflows, analytics use cases, and the business impact of engineering and data decisions.
• Experience utilising AI in modern software development.