About the Role You'll join zerohash's growing QA function, working alongside engineers and SDETs. As a QA Engineer, you'll own test planning, functional and exploratory testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT) across z…
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QA Engineer jobs in Chicago, IL
QA engineers make sure software works before users find out it does not. The role blends manual exploratory testing with automated test suites and close collaboration with developers.
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carries traditional finance onto DeFi rails. CCUS Software Engineering is a high trust environment. Failure leads to inquiry rather than... ..., leaves an audit trail and rolls back cleanly. The Senior QA Automation Test…
$80k - $100k
Salary: $80,000 - 100,000 per year Requirements: We require U.S. citizenship and a clear background check; an active TS/SCI clearance is preferred. We are looking for deep knowledge of PKI and security concepts, along wi…
$135.3k - $231.95k
scalable deployment, ensuring readiness across technical, commercial, and operational dimensions. By embracing a forward deployment engineering approach, we embed with customer teams, validate solutions in live environme…
$100k - $130k
If you are a Software Engineer with experience, please read on!Based out of Chicago, IL, we are looking to add a dynamic Software Engineer to our development team. The individual in this role will collaborate to design,…
$114.7k - $194.9k
leading technology and exceptional service. Principal, quality engineering Chicago - USAApplicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.... ...toolset - Bamboo/Jenkins/Concourse, Maven, Git, BitBucketExpert in QA proces…
$129.3k - $177.8k
Become a part of our caring communityThe Lead AI Automation Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, engineering, and productionization of AI-enabled automation across the Data Governance organ…
$89.21k - $144.96k
customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.Launch your software engineering career while helping build the connected technologies that power some of the…
$107.53k - $139.15k
The building is home to a variety of amenities, including restaurants, a fitness center, and collaborativeWhat We Do Our Software Engineers design, develop, deploy, and support high-performance market surveillance system…
$170k - $200k
future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.Position SummaryForward Deployed Engineers work embedded inside enterprise engineering teams to design and build AI-na…
$154.28k - $199.65k
Intelligence and Machine Learning to ensure the integrity and transparency of global financial markets? As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Regulatory at Cboe Global Markets, you’ll have the opportunity to work with…
redefine the nuclear industry while working alongside experts in engineering, science, and innovation. Our team operates in a collaborative,... ...be considered in lieu of degree. ~5 years of experience in QA/ QC, with 2…
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What qa engineers earn in Chicago
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $28–$41 | $59k–$86k |
| Mid level | $41–$57 | $86k–$119k |
| Senior | $54–$75 | $113k–$157k |
Adjusted for the Chicago market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Test planning and case designAutomation (Selenium, Playwright)API testing (Postman)A scripting language (Python, JS)Bug reporting and triageSQL for data verificationCI integration of test suitesExploratory testingAttention to detail
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
How would you test a login form?
Go beyond happy path: invalid inputs, security cases, lockouts, accessibility, and different devices. Structure your answer into categories so it sounds systematic.
What do you automate, and what do you test manually?
Automate the repeatable and regression-prone; explore manually where human judgment finds new bugs. Showing you know automation has a maintenance cost is the senior move.
Walk me through a great bug report you have written.
Reproduction steps, expected versus actual, environment, evidence, and severity. Emphasize that a good report saves a developer an hour.
A developer says your bug is not a bug. What do you do?
Show that you argue from the user's perspective and the spec, escalate with data if needed, and keep the relationship collaborative.
How do you decide what to test when time is short before a release?
Risk-based prioritization: critical paths, recent changes, and areas with bug history. Naming the tradeoff explicitly is what they want to hear.
How do you keep an automated test suite from becoming flaky?
Talk about stable selectors, proper waits, isolated test data, and quarantining flaky tests instead of ignoring red builds.
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Resume tips that move the needle
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Quantify your impact in defects: escape rate reduced, critical bugs caught pre-release, regression time cut.
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Name your automation stack and the size of suites you built or maintained, such as number of tests or coverage of critical flows.
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Show progression from manual to automation if that is your path — it is the expected trajectory and worth making explicit.
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Mention the domains you tested (payments, healthcare, mobile) since domain risk knowledge transfers.
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Include CI/CD integration work; a suite that runs on every pull request is worth more than one run by hand.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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QA Analyst
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QA Engineer
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Senior QA Engineer
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QA Lead
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Head of Quality
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