Quality Assurance Sr

Position Title:

Quality Assurance Spec Sr Locations:

TX

• Dallas, PA
• Pittsburgh, OH
• Strongsville, AZ
• Phoenix, AL

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Birmingham Roles and Responsibilities:

1.

Test Strategy & Ownership:

• Own testing for medium to large features or applications.
• Define test approach, scope, and entry/exit criteria for assigned work.
• Identify quality risks and escalate proactively.

2.

Automation & Technical Contributions:

• Design, build, and maintain automated UI and API tests.
• Improve automation coverage and reduce manual regression effort.
• Troubleshoot automation failures and environmental issues.

3.

Mentorship & Team Enablement:

• Guide and mentor junior QA engineers.
• Review test cases and automation code for quality and effectiveness.
• Promote best practices in testing and defect prevention.

4.

CI/CD & Reporting:

• Ensure automated tests are reliably executed in CI pipelines.
• Provide clear quality status, metrics, and risk assessments to stakeholders.

5.

Domain & Business Alignment:

• Apply domain knowledge to design meaningful test scenarios.
• Ensure testing covers real world usage and regulatory considerations.

6.

API Testing & Service Virtualization:

• Testing of RESTful and SOAP services, including contract validation and negative scenarios.
• Implement and promote service virtualization and test stubbing strategies to enable parallel development and early testing.

7.

Data, Databases & Test Data Management:

• Validate data integrity across systems using Oracle, MongoDB, and related data stores.
• Analyze database impacts and downstream effects of application changes.

Must Have Technical Skills:

5-8 Years Experience

• Strong experience as a QA Engineer or SDET with increasing focus on automation.
• Hands on proficiency with: Java, Selenium, Cucumber/Gherkin & API testing (REST/SOAP)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of test strategy, regression planning, and risk based testing.
• Experience working with enterprise systems and distributed architectures.
• Banking or financial services experience preferred.

Flex Skills/Nice to

Have:

• Proactive problem solver who identifies quality risks early.
• Comfortable mentoring junior QA engineers and influencing team practices.
• Strong communicator who can clearly articulate defects, risks, and impacts.
• Ability to balance hands on testing with strategic quality thinking.
• Banking or financial services experience preferred.