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Senior Application Quality EngineerLocation:

Troy, MI SUMMARY

Our client is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Application Quality Engineer to join their team in Troy, MI. This individual will own software quality assurance for enterprise business applications throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirements definition through production validation. The ideal candidate will serve as the quality bridge between business analysts, developers, and business stakeholders, ensuring requirements are clear, testing is comprehensive, defects are thoroughly documented, and releases meet established quality standards. This is a dedicated software quality engineering role focused on hands-on testing, risk assessment, test automation, and continuous improvement. The position does not involve application development or replace business acceptance responsibilities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

& RESPONSIBILITIESPartner with business analysts to review requirements, business rules, dependencies, and acceptance criteria before development begins, identifying gaps and recommending improvements. Translate approved requirements into risk-based test strategies, traceable test scenarios, test data, and expected outcomes. Own functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, negative, and data integrity testing for application enhancements, production fixes, and client projects. Validate enterprise application workflows and cross-system impacts, including transactions, user-facing and administrative functions, reporting, scheduled interfaces, and client-specific business processes. Test APIs, file exchanges, scheduled and batch jobs, web interfaces, authentication flows, and upstream and downstream system dependencies. Reproduce and document defects with clear steps, severity, supporting evidence, and expected versus actual results; collaborate with developers on corrections and retesting. Independently validate application behavior and data integrity using read-only SQL queries, test outputs, reports, and application interfaces. Build and maintain reusable test cases, regression suites, and appropriate UI and API automation to reduce recurring defects and manual retesting. Coordinate testing scope, environments, release dependencies, and responsibilities across business analysis, development, infrastructure, and operations. Establish and apply quality assurance entry and exit criteria for development handoffs, testing, beta validation, and production releases. Provide evidence-based release readiness recommendations documenting test results, open defects, known limitations, and associated risks. Support business acceptance and IT release approval processes without replacing the responsibilities of business stakeholders or release approvers. Perform post-deployment smoke testing, investigate defects that reach production, and recommend improvements to test coverage and the software delivery lifecycle.

EDUCATION

& EXPERIENCEBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Five or more years of software quality engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of test planning, execution, defect management, and release validation for enterprise applications. Experience translating business requirements and workflows into actionable test scenarios and identifying ambiguous, incomplete, or untestable acceptance criteria. Hands-on experience with functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of web applications, APIs, and data-driven business processes. Experience with test management tools, Azure DevOps Server, Postman, Playwright, Selenium, or comparable enterprise quality assurance tools. Experience testing legacy and modern enterprise applications, including .NET or IIS-hosted systems. Experience with complex, multi-client business systems, external integrations, and scheduled jobs. Experience developing quality metrics, improving test coverage, or implementing test automation programs. ISTQB or comparable software testing certification is preferred but not required. If you are a high performer and would like to work for an equally high performing company and you think the above opportunity is appropriate for you, we invite you to apply to this job and email your resume to aparish@venteon.com. We treat all resumes with strict confidentiality. We will always contact you first before submitting your resume to our client(s) for review. If you do not receive correspondence, you are not a fit for this position. At Venteon, our talent acquisition team is proud to provide our clients with the most qualified Accounting & Finance, Engineering & Manufacturing, Information Technology, Human Resources, Administrative & Call Center talent in the industry today.