Job

QA Engineer

Location Austin, TX 78701
Date Posted June 18, 2025
Job ID 13095
Employment Type Direct Hire

Scion Technology has been engaged to conduct a search for a skilled QA Engineer on behalf of our client, a rapidly growing cloud-based hosting provider revolutionizing the game server space.

In this role, you’ll take ownership of quality assurance efforts across their platform—developing scalable, automated, and manual testing protocols to ensure high reliability and performance. This is a full-time, direct hire opportunity.


Perks:

  • Join a profitable, stable tech company with a gaming-first, culture.

  • Work with a sharp team of gamers, developers, and community veterans.

  • Hybrid role (Texas-based candidates preferred; Southwest Austin ideal).

  • Competitive compensation aligned with experience, plus long-term career growth.


What You’ll Be Doing

  • Designing and implementing comprehensive QA strategies, including both automated and manual testing.

  • Collaborating with engineers to ensure new features meet functional and performance expectations.

  • Creating and executing test plans and cases across multiple development cycles.

  • Identifying and documenting bugs, system issues, and gaps in test coverage using tools like JIRA, Selenium, or Cypress.

  • Promoting and enforcing QA best practices across the development lifecycle.

  • Reporting on test results, release readiness, and quality metrics to stakeholders.

  • Supporting CI/testing pipelines in a fast-paced, agile development environment.


What You Bring

  • Hands-on experience in software QA, including test planning, case execution, and reporting.

  • Strong understanding of QA methodologies, frameworks, and automation tools.

  • Strong experience with PHPUnit, Pest, or a similar backend testing framework.

  • Experience with Playwright or a similar frontend testing framework.

  • Familiarity with Selenium, Cypress, TestRail, or related testing platforms.

  • Experience testing web technologies (JavaScript, Vue.js) and backend tools such as Laravel or PHP is a plus.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

  • Ability to work autonomously in a remote, distributed team.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in Agile/Scrum workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Familiarity with Git, Postman for API testing, and performance tools like JMeter.

  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

  • Passion for gaming, especially modded servers and the communities around them.




Interested? 
Contact Scion Technology today for more information by submitting your resume directly through this posting. We look forward to reviewing your background and discussing this exciting opportunity further! 

About our firm: 
Scion Technology is a national award-winning technical & IT staffing firm! Since 2006, we have had the pleasure of successfully placing thousands of talented candidates with amazing opportunities. Through our innovative team building and recruiting solutions, we bridge the gap in executive leadership searches, direct hire technical recruiting, interim leadership placement and temporary professional staffing. Our track record and recruitment process has made us one of the top recruitment firms in the nation.
We are proud to be part of the Forbes lists of the Best Recruitment Firms and the Best Executive Search Firm in America. Additionally, Scion has been recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm as well as a top recruitment firm by The Business Times! More information about us can also be found at www.sciontechnical.com.
Scion Technology, a division of Scion Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and for the candidates we represent. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and for the candidates we represent. For opportunities located in a region that have enacted fair chance, arrest or conviction-based employment ordinances, Scion Technology proactively follows the enacted guidance and considers for employment all qualified applications with arrest and conviction records. We believe in following best practices and considering all qualified applicants that apply with us.

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