QA Engineer

Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance Leadership
• Manage multiple testing initiatives simultaneously across projects of moderate to high complexity.
• Define, review, and approve test strategies, plans, and quality assurance deliverables.
• Lead testing efforts throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training to QA team members.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for applications, business processes, and testing methodologies.
• Collaborate with senior management, business stakeholders, developers, and global technical teams.

Test Planning & Execution

• Lead all phases of testing, including planning, design, scripting, execution, defect management, debugging, and reporting.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts to validate business and technical requirements.
• Ensure full traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and test results.
• Support functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing activities.
• Analyze, prioritize, and communicate defects based on business impact and technical risk.
• Provide regular testing status updates, risk assessments, and progress reports to project stakeholders.

Test Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Design and automate test cases using existing automation frameworks.
• Evaluate and implement new testing tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency, coverage, and quality metrics.
• Monitor and report software quality metrics and testing effectiveness.

Agile & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely within Agile Scrum teams to coordinate testing activities and sprint deliverables.
• Participate in architectural discussions, defect reviews, enhancement planning, and solution design sessions.
• Support change management activities and help resolve issues arising throughout the development lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the Banking and Financial Services industry, including: Payments, Tax Payments, ACH/NACHA regulations and processes.
• Experience with: Test Automation Tools (Tosca, Selenium), Mainframe and distributed application environments, Web application testing, Database testing, Performance testing, Accessibility (ADA) and User Interface testing.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile.
• Familiarity with enterprise tools such as: Jira, SharePoint, Workday, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Pay

Anticipated rate while on contract is within a range of $47 - 52/hr.