The role

Wilkes & Liberty needs a QA Engineer who treats quality as an engineering control, not a final click-through. You will turn requirements and risks into testable acceptance criteria, build repeatable coverage across the delivery stack, and produce evidence that a release works in the environment and workflow it is meant to support.

What you will own

Define risk-based test plans and acceptance criteria with the delivery lead, engineers, and client operators.
Build and maintain functional, integration, regression, accessibility, API-contract, and end-to-end coverage across Drupal, Next.js, service interfaces, and infrastructure workflows as the engagement requires.
Exercise failure paths as deliberately as happy paths: permissions, invalid inputs, partial outages, retries, stale schemas, unsafe files, data boundaries, and recovery behavior.
Keep fixtures, test data, and environment assumptions explicit and reproducible. Tie results to the exact code, configuration, and deployed state that produced them.
Write defects that another engineer can reproduce, isolate the failing boundary, verify fixes, and check for regressions beyond the original symptom.
Support release and handoff reviews with concise evidence, known residuals, and tests the client's operators can run after the engagement ends.

What you bring

You can design and maintain automated tests for web applications and APIs, and you are comfortable inspecting code, logs, requests, responses, and runtime behavior to find the actual failing boundary.
You can turn an incomplete requirement into observable acceptance criteria without hiding assumptions.
You test interactions across frontend, backend, data, identity, and deployment boundaries instead of treating each component in isolation.
You handle credentials, applicant data, client data, and test evidence with least-privilege and privacy-aware discipline.
You communicate defects and release risk plainly, including when the evidence does not support a pass.
You work well with engineers, delivery leads, security reviewers, and client operators in a remote, documentation-heavy environment.

Helpful experience

Drupal/PHP and Next.js/TypeScript delivery, GraphQL or JSON:API contracts, and browser automation.
Accessibility testing against WCAG, performance testing, and secure-input or failure-mode testing.
Containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production-like test environments.
Regulated, public-sector, or mission-oriented systems where acceptance evidence and operational handoff matter.

Equal opportunity and accommodations. Wilkes & Liberty considers qualified candidates without regard to protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.