Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title:
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:
OH - Columbus

What you'll do:
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll be an integral part of Digital Disbursements, a fintech company, led by a team with deep industry experience and a strong track record of value creation. You'll operate in the digital payments space and have a proven product market fit. You'll specialize in helping bring Business to Consumer payments to the digital age. Digital Disbursements was acquired by Western Alliance Bank (NYSE:WAL) in January 2022 and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of WAL. The Senior QA Engineer will be reporting to and working directly with the Quality Assurance Manager.


Digital Disbursements is seeking a passionate, results-driven Senior QA Engineer to deliver innovative, industry leading manual and automated testing solutions for our Digital Disbursements applications. We want a creative, highly motivated QA engineer who can take initiative, has a good sense of urgency and is comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment. As part of this goal, you'll play a key role in multiple phases of the development lifecycle including business analysis, test case design and documentation, manual and automated test execution, results documentation and display excellent communication and collaboration with all stakeholders. Additionally, you will coordinate efforts with developers and business analysts to ensure optimal results for new development and successful resolution of defects and provide frontline support and documentation.

• Establish QA standards, policies, and procedures for all programs.
• Meeting with the IT / Business stakeholders to discuss requirements and ensure software meets technical specifications.
• You will be performing multiple types of testing (System, Integration, Data Migration, End to End, Regression, Exploratory) on various platforms (Web Apps, Cloud-Based Apps, Databases and APIs).
• Identifying software testing risks, weaknesses, and target areas of improvement.
• Participation in agile ceremonies including sprint design, planning, grooming and demo practices.
• Demonstrate advanced programming skills, working in one or many automation harness solutions, creating automation frameworks and implementing best practices.
• Designing and executing automation scripts and manual test cases.
• Report on quality metrics such as manual test coverage, test completion, automation execution time, automation pass/ fail rates, automation coverage, and automation ROI.
• Examine code and execution of code in various environments.
• Ensure that security requirements and best practices have been incorporated into system functional design specifications.
• Assess software systems to ensure that security development best practices have been followed, including ethical hacking techniques with proper notification and authorization.
• Ensure that software systems comply with the IT Security Policy in all respects, including user authentication and session expiration requirements.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years' experience as a QA engineer with expertise in planning, designing and execution of automated and manual testing activities.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of and experience with business/systems analysis and development of functional system specifications.
• Detailed knowledge of software application testing standards and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools is required-preferably with Playwright.
• Demonstrated advanced programming skills in Typescript and JavaScript.
• Intermediate to advanced experience creating automation frameworks from scratch and implementing best practices.
• Experienced in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Experienced in designing, creating, and executing API tests using tools like Postman.
• Strong understanding of data integrity standards.
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of React.js.
• Strong SQL Query experience.
• MySQL experience a big plus.
• Amazon Web Services experience a big plus.
• Strong experience using Azure DevOps.
• Ability to work in a small, dynamic programming team in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem recognition and prioritization skills.
• Superior work ethics and sense of pride and ownership in completing assigned projects thoroughly and in compliance with the requirements.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams including developers, product owners, and business analysts.
• Excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Digital Disbursements is a subsidiary of Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands - Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank - that remain part of the company's heritage.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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