QA Engineer

QA Engineer (Automation focus) needed for a large, well-established California bank on a contract-to-hire basis. This role involves analyzing, designing, configuring, and maintaining QA processes.

About us

We are a large, established California bank seeking a QA Engineer with a strong automation focus to ensure the quality and reliability of our banking applications.

Why join us

• Full benefits while on contract:
  • Medical (75% paid - Blue Cross)
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Responsibilities

Functional & Manual Testing

• Analyze business and technical requirements to develop detailed test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) for banking applications.
• Validate end-to-end business workflows including customer onboarding, payments, lending, and reporting.
• Ensure testing aligns with banking regulations, data privacy, and security standards.

Test Automation

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for web and API applications.
• Contribute to automation frameworks and improve test coverage across releases.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Execute automated regression suites and analyze results.

Defect Management

• Log, track, prioritize, and manage defects through their lifecycle using defect management tools.
• Perform root cause analysis and work closely with developers to ensure timely resolution.
• Provide clear defect documentation including steps to reproduce, evidence, and impact assessment.
• Monitor defect trends and report quality metrics to leadership.

Web, API & Data Testing

• Test web applications across supported browsers and devices.
• Perform API testing using modern tools to validate request/response, data integrity, and error handling.
• Execute data testing to validate data accuracy, transformations, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Validate backend systems and integrations with third-party vendors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of QA experience with a strong emphasis on functional testing.
• Experience in banking, payments, lending, or risk systems.
• Hands-on experience with manual and automated testing.
• Strong experience in defect management and test lifecycle management.
• Experience testing financial or regulated systems is highly preferred.

Skills

Testing Tools

• Test Management: Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail, or similar
• Defect Tracking: Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent
• Automation: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar
• API Testing: Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI
• Data Testing: SQL, database validation, data reconciliation
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Git, Jenkins (or equivalent)

Technologies

• Web applications (modern browsers)
• RESTful APIs
• Relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• On-premises plus cloud-based environments (Azure/AWS preferred)

Pay

$45 - $60 per hour