QA Engineer (DevOps) (Contract)

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and traceability to development-stage requirements and deliverables.
• Execute initial functional and integration tests for defined releases; capture and retain test evidence.
• Validate AI-assisted code outputs and ensure expected behavior aligns to acceptance criteria.
• Document defects, support triage during development-stage testing, and verify fixes prior to go-live.
• Support release readiness sign-off for initial go-live and defined enhancement releases.

Required Qualifications

• 3 years of QA experience for web and/or platform applications.
• Experience writing test plans/cases and executing functional and integration testing.
• Familiarity with defect tracking workflows and release readiness practices.
• Ability to document test evidence clearly for auditability and stakeholder review.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with test automation tools and CI-integrated test execution.
• Experience validating data-intensive or AI/ML-enabled features.
• Familiarity with API testing and integration validation.

Deliverables / Success Measures

• Approved test plans/cases;
• Documented initial test evidence for each defined release;
• Reduced production defect leakage;
• Clear traceability between acceptance criteria, executed tests, and sign-off.