Senior QA Automation Engineer

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Must have technical/functional skills:

• 6-10 years of overall quality engineering experience with strong hands-on automation and manual testing expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium and Karate including framework development, enhancement, and maintenance.
• 2+ years of experience on finance applications or enterprise financial platforms and validating end-to-end workflows.
• Strong Java and SQL skills for test automation, backend validation, data verification, and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of finance processes such as billing, invoicing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, reconciliation, payments, financial reporting, and financial close.
• Ability to interpret business rules, process flows, calculations, controls, data dependencies, interfaces, and downstream impacts.
• Experience with functional, regression, integration, smoke, system, end-to-end, and production validation testing.
• Experience designing reusable automation components, test data strategies, reporting, and traceability across release cycles.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence or comparable test management and collaboration tools.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams and collaborating with developers, business analysts, finance SMEs, product owners, and other stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline integration, source control, and automated execution is preferred.
• Experience supporting legacy applications, modernization programs, and expansion of automation coverage is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain test strategy, defects, risks, dependencies, and release readiness clearly.
• Desired skills: Experience with Playwright and Cypress.

Roles & responsibilities:

• As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for:
• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable automation frameworks and test scripts for finance applications.
• Create and execute functional, regression, integration, smoke, system, end-to-end, and manual test scenarios.
• Validate finance business processes, calculations, reconciliations, controls, data movement, and system integrations.
• Develop test coverage for relevant finance areas, including billing, invoicing, AP, AR, GL, payments, reporting, reconciliations, and close activities.
• Use Java and SQL to automate tests, validate backend data, investigate issues, and confirm expected results.
• Define test approach, test data, entry and exit criteria, traceability, automation scope, and evidence required for release readiness.
• Analyze defects, document clear reproduction steps and business impact, coordinate triage, validate fixes, and drive timely closure.
• Integrate automation suites with CI/CD processes where applicable and monitor execution results and test reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, business analysis, finance, and product stakeholders to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint ceremonies, demonstrations, technical discussions, and release-readiness reviews.
• Support application maintenance, enhancements, modernization initiatives, and production defect validation.
• Maintain quality documentation and proactively communicate risks, dependencies, progress, and recommended actions.
• Mentor team members and promote reusable standards, automation best practices, and continuous improvement.

Salary Range: $100,000-$120,000 a year

Location: Saint Louis, MO