Senior QA Engineer / SDET

Build software that has to work 

NextGen AgTech with In Time Tec builds web and mobile software used to operate feedlots, manage cattle purchasing and transportation, and maintain financial records used by owners and lenders. Our products support yard operations, animal health, billing, financing, logistics, and reporting across web, iOS, and Android. 

The testing challenge is consequential: a defect can affect an operator’s books, an animal-health workflow, or a time-sensitive decision in the yard. We are expanding QA capacity while building automation that helps us release faster without accepting greater operational or financial risk. 

The mandate 

You will own test strategy and automation architecture for a product suite spanning yard operations, cattle purchasing, financial workflows, and dispatch. This is a hands-on senior individual-contributor role: you will write code, make framework decisions, review tests, mentor engineers, and give leadership a clear view of release risk. 

Our automation practice is growing rather than finished. You will have meaningful authority over framework and coverage decisions, along with responsibility for ensuring those choices remain maintainable as the product evolves. 

What you will own 

• End-to-end test strategy: what to automate, what should remain exploratory or manual, and where testing investment reduces the most risk. 

• Playwright framework architecture, including fixtures, reusable utilities, parallel execution, tracing, reporting, and maintainability standards. 

• UI, API, integration, contract, and data-layer coverage for critical workflows. 

• Release-quality gates and risk-based recommendations about whether software is ready to ship. 

• CI/CD test health, including lower flake, faster feedback, and actionable failure reporting. 

• Root-cause analysis of production incidents and escaped defects, translated into durable regression coverage. 

• Standards for AI-assisted test design and automation, including human review and coverage-gap analysis. 

• Technical mentoring and testability guidance for QA and development engineers. 

What you would test 

• Yard operations, including lots, pens, feed delivery, commodities, animal-health records, and treatments. 

• Financial workflows, including billing, interest, loans, payments, statements, hedges, and lender-facing reporting. 

• Purchasing and logistics, including cattle records, hauling, dispatch, and automated notifications. 

• Customer workflows across web, iOS, and Android in English and Spanish. 

What success looks like 

• In your first 60 days, you assess current coverage, test debt, pipeline health, and the highest-risk operational and financial workflows. 

• Within six months, you establish the framework architecture, automation priorities, ownership standards, and initial release-quality gates. 

• Within one year, the team has materially better regression signal, more stable automated coverage, and a faster path from code change to trustworthy feedback. 

What you bring 

• Five or more years of experience in QA or SDET roles, including substantial hands-on test-automation experience. 

• A track record of designing or significantly scaling a production test-automation framework, not only writing individual tests. 

• Deep, practical Playwright or comparable modern automation experience, including fixtures, parallelization, retries, tracing, and reporting. 

• Strong programming or scripting experience in TypeScript, Python, C#, or a comparable language. 

• Experience with API, integration, contract, and CI/CD testing. 

• Strong SQL skills for test-data setup, financial and operational validation, and investigation across application and database state. 

• Risk-based release judgment and the ability to communicate that judgment to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. 

• Experience mentoring engineers and improving how a team designs for testability. 

Helpful, not required 

• Mobile automation for native iOS or Android applications. 

• Performance and load testing, accessibility testing, visual regression, or security-testing fundamentals such as the OWASP Top 10. 

• Internal quality tooling, dashboards, or production-telemetry feedback loops. 

• Experience in agriculture, fintech, logistics, or another operationally sensitive domain. 

Technology 

Our core testing environment includes Playwright, Postman, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure SQL, Docker, and AI-assisted test design and automation. 

Location and employment 

This position works onsite at our Meridian, Idaho office five days per week and is not eligible for remote work. Relocation assistance is not offered for this role. 

This describes the position’s standard work arrangement. Requests for reasonable accommodation will be considered through In Time Tec’s established interactive process. 

This position is employed by In Time Tec, LLC. NextGen AgTech is the product organization you will support. Employment with In Time Tec is at-will. 

Benefits 

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; company-provided life insurance; a 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth contribution options; a Flexible Spending Account; an Employee Assistance Program; nine paid holidays; and five days of bereavement leave for an immediate family member. 

This position is exempt and participates in the company’s Responsible Time Off program. Time off under that program does not accrue or vest and is coordinated with your manager and team. Eligibility, waiting periods, coverage levels, and other terms are governed by the applicable plans and company policies. 

How to apply 

Submit your resume and a concise example of a test-automation framework or strategy you designed or materially improved. Explain the problem, the decision you made, and the impact. A few paragraphs are sufficient; do not include confidential code or employer information. 

The anticipated process includes an application review, a recruiter conversation, a hiring-manager interview, a framework and risk-design discussion, and a final team conversation. We will explain the format and expected time commitment before each stage. 

Equal opportunity and accommodations 

In Time Tec is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law. 

We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs, and pregnancy-related limitations. If you need a reasonable accommodation to meet a requirement of this position or to participate in our hiring process, contact our Director of People & Operations Kimber Russell (kimber.russel@intimetec.com). Accommodation requests are handled separately from the review of your application.