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title: 'Test Engineer (Remote - 6 Month Contract Role) at CompassX Group'
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# Test Engineer (Remote - 6 Month Contract Role) at CompassX Group

- **Company:** CompassX Group
- **Location:** Cst Timezone
- **Compensation:** $45–$55/hr
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/compassx/88c22af2-0c2a-44f0-a8b7-9567cf815abb

## Job description

About Us: CompassX is a boutique business and technology consulting firm. We help Fortune 500 and high-growth clients deliver their most strategic initiatives, from enterprise transformations to digital and data-driven projects. With over 15 years of proven results, we’ve expanded across industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, consumer products, and quick service restaurants. We are honored to be recognized as a three-time winner of Consulting Magazine’s Best Boutique Firms to Work For, and previously recognized as a “Best Place to Work” in Southern California and one of INC.’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

About The Role: We are seeking a QA Test Engineer to support our Quick Service Restaurant industry client practice for a high-impact, 6-month consulting engagement. In this role, you will be embedded directly within the client's ecosystem, driving quality assurance and building automated validation frameworks for cross-service applications. Operating on CST hours in a remote setup, you will not just execute scripts, you will take complete ownership of functional use cases, testing modern architectures built on GraphQL, Playwright, and real-time Pub/Sub (MQTT) systems. This role is ideal for a testing expert who thrives on identifying failures across distributed software components and is eager to pioneer AI-enhanced development tools to accelerate deployment velocity.

What You'll Do:

- Design, test, and maintain automated tests for services
- Lead efforts in drafting test scenarios and writing tests to cover functional use cases for each feature, including asynchronous/event-driven flows and GraphQL API contracts
- Collaborate with teams across Yum services to triage bugs and investigate failures in various environments
- Monitor and maintain test pipelines, and use observability tools and test logs to identify and fix failures
- Clearly communicate bugs and proactively initiate discussions to aid issue discovery and resolution
- Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance the development workflow and improve delivery velocity

What You'll Bring:

- Solid proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript; experience with test runners such as Mocha
- Hands-on experience with UI test automation frameworks, including Playwright
- Demonstrable, hands-on experience testing event-driven / Pub-Sub systems (e.g., MQTT, WebSockets, SSE)  including designing tests around message ordering, delivery guarantees (at-least-once/at-most-once), reconnection/retry logic, and asynchronous event assertions.
- Deep, hands-on experience testing GraphQL APIs: Writing and maintaining tests for complex nested queries, mutations, and subscriptions; mocking schemas/resolvers; handling pagination, error responses, and N+1 query issues.
- Working knowledge of cloud environments and containerized deployments, including Docker images and container registries
- Working knowledge of Git and Git-based workflows, including CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Experience analyzing and correlating application and service logs across multiple services (e.g., tracing errors, debugging test failures)
- Experience using Jira (or similar tools) for task and issue tracking
- Familiarity with Android test automation using frameworks such as Appium

## About CompassX Group

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CompassX Group is a boutique business and technology consulting firm that helps Fortune 500/1000 clients bridge the gap between ideas and measurable results through project leadership and business transformation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (mid-growth, bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Irvine, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Kyle J. Heppenstall (Managing Director & presumed founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Business Consulting and Services, with specializations in Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Consumer Discretionary.
- **Target customers**: B2B – Fortune 500/1000 enterprises and established organizations.
- **Mission / purpose**: “Bridging the divide between great ideas and meaningful results” by matching consultants to work they are passionate about and delivering high-quality, low-bureaucracy engagements.

## Products & Services
CompassX delivers consulting services across several practice areas, each offered as a client engagement (not a standalone product):

- **Project Management & Business Transformation**: End-to-end delivery leadership for complex strategic initiatives, including agile and product evolution, business resiliency, and process improvement.
- **Solution Design (UX / Product / Process)**: Senior consultants and solution owners who design user experiences, product strategies, and operational workflows.
- **Data & AI Solutions**: Manager-level solution owners who architect data platforms and AI-driven business capabilities.
- **Organizational Change Management**: Consulting engagement focused on driving adoption and cultural transformation during large-scale change.
- **Technology Advisory**: Strategic guidance on technology roadmaps, vendor selection, and digital evolution.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately **$4.5M** (latest estimate) and a team of **30 employees**.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors disclosed; clients include well-known Fortune 500/1000 firms (e.g., Taco Bell, Capital Group, Deloitte alumni are common talent sources).
- **Growth Signals**: Active job postings (16 open roles as of mid-2026); LinkedIn follower growth of +148% year-over-year; expanding into Data & AI solution ownership; described as a “mid-growth company” with 13+ years of history.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Boutique by design** – Remains small and adaptable, limiting bureaucracy while still solving large-scale, global problems for multi-billion‑dollar clients.
- **Low/no‑travel model** – Consultants work primarily from SoCal offices with minimal travel, differentiating from traditional Big Four consulting firms.
- **Culture of access** – Employees have direct interaction with company leadership and can shape the firm’s evolution.
- **High retention signals** – Emphasis on “A‑Players,” transparent career paths, and a tight-knit community.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepen Data & AI capabilities** – Recent job postings for “Manager – Solution Owner (Data, and AI)” signal a push into high‑demand technology advisory.
- **Maintain boutique scale** – Prioritize quality of work and employee satisfaction over rapid headcount growth.
- **Expand in Financial Services** – Dedicated practice lead for Business Transformation in Capital Markets.
- **Continue local hiring** – All roles are hybrid in Irvine/LA, reinforcing the “local model” that differentiates them from remote‑first competitors.

## Why Work Here
- **Work‑life harmony** – Flexible, no/low‑travel model with hybrid offices in Irvine and Los Angeles.
- **Generous benefits** – 2‑week sabbaticals every 2 years, 3 weeks PTO plus holidays and sick time, retirement plan with company match, full health coverage.
- **Transparent career progression** – Annual review process with clear milestones; ability to customize your consulting career journey.
- **Small‑team feel** – “Boutique by design” means you know everyone and have a voice in company decisions.
- **Interesting work** – Solve problems for Fortune 500/1000 clients without the bureaucracy of a large firm.

## Sources
1. [CompassX About Page](https://www.compassx.com/about/)
2. [CompassX Careers Page (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/compassx)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/compassx-group)
4. [CompassX Careers – Culture & Benefits](https://www.compassx.com/careers-2/)
5. [CompassX Careers – New Page](https://www.compassx.com/careers-new/)

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