QAAutomationEngineer

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $136M ARR and is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join our team! About the Role We are looking for a QA Engineer to help ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of Backblaze products across UI and API experiences. This role will serve as a trusted quality partner to Product and Engineering, owning end to end testing and helping define a strong quality strategy across new and existing features. The ideal candidate brings deep QA experience, strong automation skills, a thoughtful approach to test design, and the ability to improve testing workflows through AI, process enhancements, and close cross-functional collaboration. What You'll Do: Understand Backblaze products and its software stack Write structured test plans for new features being developed Automate tests in python/javascript and contribute to current test harnesses Perform functional, integration and regression testing for Backblaze API and user flows. Leverage AI to enhance these workflows and accelerate testing Identify, record and document reproducible steps for tracking defects from origin to