Senior Software Engineer in Test

Akoya is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Test to shape test automation strategy and raise engineering quality across its products. The role builds and maintains test infrastructure, mentors QA engineers, and partners with engineering and product teams to improve reliability, compliance, and quality at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Shift Left on Quality: Partner with engineers and product managers early in the development cycle to define testability requirements, acceptance criteria, and risk-based test strategies before a line of code is written
• Build and Maintain Test Automation: Build, extend, and help maintain the frameworks, tooling, and CI integration the team's testing runs on — taking ownership of key areas and evolving them within the technical direction set with our Principal SET
• Test Across the Spectrum: Design and execute functional, integration, regression, and load/performance test automation, using k6 or Gatling for performance and Cypress/Postman for functional and API coverage, so we catch issues at the right layer
• Innovate on Process: Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the testing lifecycle. Champion adaptive QA practices that scale with rapid iteration without slowing down delivery
• Elevate the Team: Be a senior technical voice and mentor for QA engineers. Share your expertise generously, raise the quality of the work around you, and contribute to a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
• Drive Metrics That Matter: Partner with the engineering lead to define and track meaningful quality signals — automation coverage, test reliability, bug escape rates, and feedback loop speed — and use data to continuously improve
• Align with Business Goals: Build testing practices that support compliance, security, and reliability standards while staying tightly aligned with Akoya's product and engineering objectives

Requirements:

• 7+ years in software testing or quality engineering, with at least 2+ years in a technical lead or senior IC capacity
• Deep proficiency with Cypress, Node.js, Docker, Bitbucket Pipelines, Postman, WireMock, K8s, and AWS
• Experience with load/performance testing — k6, Gatling, or similar
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, cloud environments, and shift-left testing principles
• Experience designing and scaling test infrastructure in agile, high-growth SaaS environments
• Ability to communicate clearly across engineering, product, and senior leadership — translating quality risk into business impact
• Ownership-driven, collaborative, and biased toward action