Engineering & IT · Kansas City, MO

QA Engineer jobs in Kansas City, MO

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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Mission Critical QA/QC Engineer / Manager

Rinvio · Kansas City, MO · Full-time
$190k - $230k

Rinvio is hiring a Mission Critical QA/QC Engineer / Manager for quality management for data center and mission-critical MEP construction in the Kansas City, MO market. Pay: $190,000-$230,000/year, based on experience Lo…

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Senior Control Systems Engineer

HDR · Kansas City, MO

throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabli…

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IR Technologist

Saint Luke's Health System · Kansas City, MO

Job Description​Within the organizational structure of radiology performs interventional procedures to assist in direct patient care.ACH, ACRH, and SLS new hire/transfer will have 60 days from start to obtain a Kansas LR…

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Mechanical Engineer *

HDR · Kansas City, MO

possible not only in your community, but around the world.HDR Engineering is currently seeking a Mechanical/Senior Mechanical Engineer to... ...documentsProvide construction contract administration as neededConduct QA/ Q…

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Electrical Engineer *

HDR · Kansas City, MO

better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.HDR Engineering is currently seeking an Electrical/Senior Electrical Engineer to join one of th…

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Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Wabtec · Kansas City, MO · Full-time
$68.9k - $98.2k

Job Description Who will you be working with? The Lead Software Quality Engineer will be part of a team developing world class Positive Train Control solutions. You will be responsible for ensuring the product quality fo…

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Senior Electrical Studies Engineer

HDR · Kansas City, MO

better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. HDR Engineering is currently seeking a Senior Electrical Studies Engineer to join our growing…

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DevOps Engineer III

Deloitte · Kansas City, MO
$116.2k - $229.1k

Position Summary AI & Engineering/ EaaS - DevOps Engineer IIIBuild and scale modern DevOps capabilities that help clients accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and modernize engineering operations. As a Senior Consul…

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What qa engineers earn in Kansas City

Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives

ExperienceHourlyAnnual, full-time
Entry level $25–$36 $52k–$75k
Mid level $36–$50 $75k–$103k
Senior $48–$65 $99k–$136k

Adjusted for the Kansas City 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

For qa engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here

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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

01 QA Analyst
02 QA Engineer
03 Senior QA Engineer
04 QA Lead
05 Head of Quality
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