Senior Quality Assurance Testing Engineer

Fora · New York City

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-08-18
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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About Fora

Fora is the modern travel agency, empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs to build thriving travel advisory businesses. We're modernizing the $100B+ travel industry with AI woven through every part of the advisor's workflow, plus global supplier relationships, personalized training, and a vibrant community, all in one place. That's what lets advisors build businesses that scale, while their taste and service create trips no algorithm alone could plan. At the heart of it all is our mission: to help the next generation of travel entrepreneurs turn their love for travel into a fulfilling career, whether full-time or part-time.

We're mission-driven and obsessed with our customers, and we believe humans and AI are both essential: the best work here comes from people and technology at their best, together. That's not just a philosophy about our product, it's how we build our team. Everyone at Fora gets hands-on with frontier AI tooling as part of the job. At Fora, you'll learn to be AI-fluent, with real experience applying AI to solve problems day to day, wherever you sit in the company.

Founded in 2021, Fora has grown to a team of 250+ full-time employees based in downtown New York City. In 2026, we closed a $60 million Series D led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, with continued backing from Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, and Heartcore Capital. We've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup (2024), one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies (2023 and 2025), and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies (2026).

Come build something that hasn't existed before.

About The Role

We're looking for a Senior QA Engineer with 7+ years of experience across the full stack. Your strength is backend QA - integration testing, system-level validation, and data quality across connected services, but you also own frontend and end-to-end testing of the user experience.

This role suits someone who wants to understand how the whole system fits together and why the data looks the way it does. If you are the one who goes looking for the problems that don't show up on the happy path, this is the role for you. You'll work closely with developers, product managers, and designers to test how things behave from the UI through the APIs down to the data: exercising APIs, following data across services, digging into edge cases, and staying involved in quality from planning through release.

Our product changes constantly - new features ship often, and existing ones evolve based on user feedback. You'll make sure those changes hold up and ship at a high bar. Experience working with offshore teams is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

Investigation & Debugging:

• Own root-cause analysis for complex, cross-layer issues - tracking through UI -> API -> database -> dependent services rather than stopping at the surface.

• Investigate complex, hard-to-reproduce issues by piecing together information from logs, traces, and monitoring tools like Datadog and Sentry.

• Distinguish frontend from backend causes through payload, status-code, and data-flow analysis, and always ask "what would I check next?"

API, Integration & Data Validation:

• Create and execute integration test strategies for backend services and third-party APIs, validating how components interact across systems.

• Use tools like Postman to explore, document, and validate APIs against functional, performance, and edge-case requirements.

• Comfortable reading and querying the database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) to verify the application behaves correctly — understanding how data is structured across tables and confirming it matches what the system should have done.

• Get involved early in design discussions to ensure testability and reliability across the stack.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to fully understand business logic, technical architecture, and domain-specific use cases.

• Provide thoughtful, detailed bug reports with clear steps to reproduce and meaningful business context.

• Participate in sprint ceremonies (planning, grooming, retrospectives) and serve as a quality advocate throughout the development cycle.

• Ask questions, challenge assumptions, and promote a culture of continuous improvement in testing and delivery processes.

Quality Mindset & Domain Awareness:

• Approach testing with high attention to detail, proactively identifying edge cases, data anomalies, and system-level inconsistencies before they reach production.

• Demonstrate a creative and curious mindset - not just validating requirements, but actively looking for what might break or be missed.

• Embrace AI as part of the job - open to integrating AI tools into day-to-day QA workflows to test faster, dig deeper, and work smarter.

• Develop a strong understanding of the workflows across the pods you support to better anticipate risk areas and ensure domain-appropriate validation.

• Own quality end to end, from

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