In 2026 our focus is one experience, one quality bar across every surface; a shared design system, a single API/CLI style guide extended to MCP and Terraform, and a foundation solid enough to support the polish, defaults, and micro-interactions that make a developer cloud feel great to use.
You'd be the first dedicated quality engineer on the team, and the person who defines what "one quality bar" means in practice.
What You'll Be Working On
Test Strategy Ownership: Own end-to-end test strategy across the Console, CLIs, Terraform provider and MCP servers. This includes Playwright E2E suites, Go-based integration and acceptance tests (with real plan/apply/destroy lifecycles through terraform-plugin-testing), and contract tests against generated API clients.
Framework Development: Build automation frameworks from scratch and keep them reliable through parallel execution, flakiness reduction and GitHub Actions CI integration, so a red build always means a real bug.
Cross-Surface Consistency: Verify that features shipping to Console, CLI, Terraform and MCP at the same time behave like one product, and build harnesses that catch drift automatically.
Release Readiness: Define quality gates and release criteria with engineering and product, balancing shipping speed against reliability.
AI-First Testing: Use agents to generate test suites from OpenAPI specs and tickets, review AI-generated tests to make sure the assertions are meaningful, and use AI triage to separate real failures from flakes.
Exploratory Testing: Cover what automation can’t, including micro-interactions, empty states, error copy, accessibility, upgrade paths and docs that don’t match the product.
Complex Problem Solving: Tackle issues that span every surface, such as breaking-change management in the Terraform provider, API contract changes that ripple through generated clients, and design system migrations.
Coaching and Collaboration: Help software engineers get better at test design through code review and pairing, and work directly with design, product and platform teams.
Measurable Quality: Turn “this should feel great to use” into concrete, testable criteria the team can build against.
What You'll Bring to the Team
Quality Engineering Experience: 5+ years in quality engineering, test automation or SDET roles on customer-facing products.
Framework Building: You’ve built, or helped build, a TypeScript automation framework from scratch and run it in CI. You can talk specifics about parallelization, retries, network interception, flakiness and what you’d do differently next time.
Testing Beyond the Browser: You’re comfortable testing HTTP APIs, CLIs and infrastructure tooling, and you’re willing to ramp up on Go and Terraform provider acceptance testing.
AI Tool Fluency: You use AI coding and testing tools (Claude Code or similar agents) every day to generate and maintain suites. You know where their output falls short and can teach others to use them well.
Exploratory Instinct: You find the bug the suite missed, then decide whether it’s worth automating.
Clear Written Communication: Your bug reports, test plans and release notes stand on their own.
Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity packages
Restricted Stock Units
Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
Employer contributions to HSA account
Paid parental leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Professional development & tuition reimbursement
Mental health & wellness support
Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
Cell phone stipend
401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Volunteer time off
Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
Daily meals allowance
Additional perks & programs specific to location
Compensation Range
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $170,000 -$205,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
