Software Quality Engineer

Software Engineer, QE

Title: Software Engineer, QE
Level: L2
Location: Hyderabad, India
Department: Engineering

Company
Talent Systems, LLC is the leading technology solution provider for casting and auditioning to the entertainment industry. Casting directors and agents worldwide use Talent Systems’ portfolio of products to source and manage talent across film, television, commercials, theater and digital projects, powering an unparalleled, global casting software ecosystem. 

We are headquartered in Los Angeles and operate in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and India. Our portfolio brands include Casting Networks, Spotlight, Cast It Systems, Cast It Talent, Casting Frontier, Staff Me Up, Cast It Reach & Tagmin.

Job Description
We're looking for a hands-on QE engineer who can think like a tester and build like a developer. You'll own the quality for FastCast features: break down requirements into sharp test scenarios, automate them, and keep them running in CI. AI is core to how we work: you'll use AI tools at every step to generate, write and maintain tests faster than automation alone allows.
You'll sit with the developers building the product, catch issues early, and help the team ship fast without breaking things.

Job Requirements

Must-haves

• 2–3 years in QA / QE on web applications
• Strong at writing test cases and scenarios from requirements; you spot the edge cases others miss
• Hands-on test automation experience with Playwright, or other automation tools
• Good programming skills in JavaScript or TypeScript (Node.js a plus)
• Hands-on use of AI coding assistants for testing work, plus the judgment to review, verify and fix what they produce
• Understanding of test automation patterns like Page Object Model
• Experience running tests in a CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar)
• API testing experience (Postman or similar)
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Comfortable with Git and Agile / Scrum
• Clear written and verbal communication; can explain a bug so a developer gets it the first time

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Playwright specifically
• Exposure to BDD (Cucumber or similar)
• Testing native mobile apps (iOS, Android)
• Testing AI-powered features: LLM output quality, evals, prompt regressions
• Basic performance or load testing
• Experience with log tools (e.g. LogDNA) to debug failures
• Worked in a team shipping to production weekly or faster

Why join

• Own quality on a live product used by the entertainment industry
• Work side by side with the engineers building it, not in a separate QA silo
• Modern, automation-first stack with real room to grow into an SDET role

Job responsibilities

• Understand product requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria; turn them into clear test cases and scenarios covering happy paths, edge cases and negative flows
• Write and maintain E2E automation for web (Playwright preferred) and for our React Native mobile apps on iOS and Android, covering sprint stories, smoke and regression suites
• Run automated suites in CI/CD and triage failures fast: real bug, flaky test or environment issue
• Try out and adopt AI-powered QE tooling (e.g. Playwright MCP, self-healing locators, visual AI) and share what works with the team
• Do focused manual and exploratory testing where automation doesn't make sense yet
• Log clear, reproducible bugs and work with developers to get them fixed
• Test APIs and validate data with SQL where needed
• Prepare test data for sprint stories and regression runs
• Join Agile ceremonies and flag testability and quality risks early
• Help sign off releases and support production verification
• Report on test coverage and quality status for each sprint