Staff QA Engineer

About this role

Company Overview Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific. Group Overview This role sits within the Digital and Synthetic Group (D&S). The D&S Group is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space. Position Summary Metrea is seeking a dynamic, curious, and highly-motivated Staff QA Engineer to join our software development team, building software solutions that provide geospatial data processing and visualisations. Candidates should have strong experience with the software development lifecycle, and extensive skills and knowledge in quality engineering. The position involves helping to drive product delivery, in collaboration with Product Managers, Software Engineers and other QA Engineers. Metrea is a people-first organisation and candidates should have strong communication skills and a desire to proactively elevate their team through continuous knowledge sharing, collaboration, feedback, and mentorship. What You'll Do Assist the team with refinement of user stories, through a testing lens Define test strategy for complex products and projects Work with product and engineering to clarify acceptance criteria Scope and write test cases Estimate test effort associated with user stories Execute manual software tests Help define and execute the team's test strategy Create and maintain test plans and appropriate documentation Create and maintain automation scripts Support other testers and developers with broader system testing Champion Quality Engineering best practices Coordinate and collaborate with Testers across teams What You Bring Practical experience of hands-on software development and / or QA testing Ex tensive ex perience of using and testing web, windows desktop, and command line applications Experience leading and defining test strategy for complex products and projects Enthusiasm for team delivery in an Agile environment Drive to learn constantly and further your knowledge Strong organisational skills, proactive approach to task admin and docs Meticulous attention to detail Shift-left approach to testing and willingness to participate throughout the whole lifecycle of user stories Interest and ability in upskilling less experienced QA E

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