- Job title
- Senior QA Engineer
- Job location
- New York, NY, US
- Job description
- # Senior QA Engineer
## About Dili
Dili builds software that helps construction and clean-energy companies manage complex prevailing wage, apprenticeship, and labor compliance requirements.
We started Dili because labor compliance is still handled through a mix of spreadsheets, PDFs, manual review, and institutional knowledge, despite determining whether some of the largest construction projects in the country are compliant.
Today, we’re a team of roughly 30, including a small engineering team working closely with our in-house Compliance team. We’re building the infrastructure to turn complex regulatory requirements into software that can be evaluated consistently, explained clearly, and audited.
## About the role
Our compliance engine evaluates payroll, timekeeping, worker classifications, prevailing wage rates, apprenticeship requirements, and documentation across frameworks including federal Davis-Bacon, IRA requirements, state prevailing wage laws, and programs such as NYSERDA and Illinois Shines.
We’re looking for a **Senior QA Engineer** to own automated product quality, with a particular focus on formally validating our compliance engine and preventing regressions.
This is not primarily a manual QA role. You’ll build the systems that let us **enumerate the compliance scenarios we support, tie them to the underlying regulations, automate their validation, and confidently determine whether a release is correct.**
You’ll work directly with engineers and our Compliance team to turn regulations and interpretations into deterministic, executable tests.
## What you'll own
* Build and maintain a registry of compliance scenarios across supported frameworks
* Translate regulations, agency guidance, and internal compliance interpretations into structured, testable cases
* Include citations to the authoritative regulatory or program sources behind expected behavior
* Develop automated tests that formally verify our compliance engine
* Test interactions between overlapping federal, state, and program-specific requirements
* Cover edge cases, exceptions, remediation flows, and previously identified production issues
* Make scenarios easy for our Compliance team to review, update, and extend
* Expand automated coverage across high-risk product workflows
* Build and improve integration, API, end-to-end, and regression test suites
* Establish automated quality gates and release-readiness criteria
* Improve visibility into scenario coverage, failures, and known gaps
## What we're trying to build
We want our test infrastructure to become an **executable specification of the Dili compliance engine**.
For each scenario, we should be able to define:
* the applicable regulation or program requirement, with citation
* the relevant project, payroll, worker, wage, and apprenticeship inputs
* the expected compliance determination
* the expected calculations, issues, remediation, and reporting behavior
These scenarios should be understandable by Compliance, version-controlled, automatically executable, and tied directly to release readiness.
## Your first 90 days
**First 30 days**
* Learn the architecture of the compliance engine and how our engineering and Compliance teams currently validate changes
* Map at least one major compliance framework into a structured set of scenarios
* Identify the highest-risk gaps in our existing automated coverage
**By 60 days**
* Build the initial version of the compliance scenario registry
* Automate a meaningful set of high-priority scenarios, including regulatory citations and expected outcomes
* Establish a repeatable process for turning production defects into regression tests
**By 90 days**
* Have critical compliance scenarios running automatically in CI
* Give Engineering and Compliance clear visibility into coverage, failures, and known gaps
* Establish release-readiness criteria that provide concrete evidence that changes to the compliance engine are safe to ship
## Must have
* Strong experience in software QA, quality engineering, or test automation
* Strong Python skills
* Experience building automated integration and end-to-end test suites
* Experience integrating testing into CI/CD and release processes
* Ability to test a Python/React application in an AWS environment
* Ability to systematically reason about complex combinations of rules, inputs, and expected outcomes
* Ability to turn written requirements into precise, deterministic test cases
* Strong attention to traceability: not just **“did this test pass?”**, but **“why is this the expected behavior, and what requirement supports it?”**
* Ability to work closely with engineers and domain experts to resolve ambiguity
## Nice to have
* Recent hands-on experience with Playwright
* Experience with QA Wolf or similar modern QA tools
* Experience with parameterized, property-based, combinatorial, or model-based testing
* Experience testing payroll, tax, financial, legal, healthcare, insurance, or other rules-heavy software
* Experience with requirements traceability, release certification, or audit evidence
## What success looks like
* Dili has a structured inventory of the compliance scenarios we support
* Critical scenarios are automatically tested and tied to authoritative regulatory sources
* Compliance can review and contribute to expected behavior
* Production defects become permanent regression tests
* Changes to regulations or interpretations can be traced to affected scenarios
* Releases provide clear evidence of what was tested and whether the compliance engine is ready to ship
