Engineering & IT · Louisville, KY

QA Engineer jobs in Louisville, KY

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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$24–$63/hr
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$86k
Median, full-time
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Rotating Engineer - Onshore Reliability

Hudson Manpower · Louisville, KY · Full-time

Job Title: Rotating Engineer – Onshore Reliability Experience: Minimum 12 Years Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Industry: Oil & Gas / Refinery (Onshore) Job Description: The Rotating Engineer –…

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Rotating Engineer - Offshore Reliability

Hudson Manpower · Louisville, KY · Full-time

Job Title: Rotating Engineer – Offshore Reliability Experience: Minimum 12 Years Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Industry: Oil & Gas / Refinery (Offshore) Job Description: The Rotating Engineer…

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Improvement Engineer

Lubrizol Corporation · Louisville, KY

make a real impact—on your career, your community, and the world around you. How You’ll Make an Impact As an Improvement Engineer , you'll be at the forefront of our innovation, responsible for implementing process and t…

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Mechanical Design Engineer

Packsize · Louisville, KY · Full-time

what’s right for our customers, their customers, our people, and the planet. The Role Packsize is looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join the R&D Hardware team in Louisville, KY. This role is focused on reducing the co…

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Civil Design Engineer

Gpac · Louisville, KY · Full-time
$90k - $130k

Position Overview: We are seeking a talented and motivated Civil Design Engineer to join our growing team. This individual will be responsible for the design and development of land development and infrastructure project…

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What qa engineers earn in Louisville

Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives

ExperienceHourlyAnnual, full-time
Entry level $24–$35 $50k–$73k
Mid level $35–$48 $73k–$100k
Senior $46–$63 $96k–$132k

Adjusted for the Louisville 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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