Senior QA Engineer
About the role
Senior QA Engineer at dili, a YC-backed company automating compliance for construction. Focus on automated validation of the compliance engine, building a deterministic test harness, and preventing regressions. Not primarily manual QA; emphasis on automating regulatory scenario coverage and CI/CD readiness.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 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
Skills

About dili
Automating PWA Compliance and Diligence
Dili (YC S23) is building the most reliable AI automation for compliance in real-world industries. Across energy, infrastructure, datacenters, advanced manufacturing, and construction, Dili has run prevailing wage, apprenticeship, & other labor compliance to help customers secure over $1 billion in federal funding. Dili is building the AI system of record to help physical industries track compliance, analyze labor and spend, run payroll, and more.
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