QA Engineer

Quality Engineering

Right to hire position with a major investment firm. Hybrid Newark preferred (open to Ft. Washington, PA or Minneapolis, MN). The individual will design, create, test, and deploy test-driven solutions across multiple technology domains. Candidate must demonstrate strong logical and creative problem-solving abilities, good oral and written communication, and excellent analytical skills.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designing, writing, and executing automated test scripts using Selenium & Cucumber for API Automation.
• Maintaining and enhancing existing automated test scripts and frameworks to improve test efficiency and coverage.
• Well versed with UI & back-end automation testing.
• Contributing to the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes by integrating automated tests into build pipelines.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and best practices in test automation and applying them to improve test development & execution processes.
• Developing Quality Management plans and test strategy for each sprint/release, review test plans and conduct peer reviews of plans & test cases.
• Working with Product owners to ensure business requirements are adequate & ensure test cases are developed according to standards for both manual and automated.
• Update Quality Tools with requirement traceability, test cases, test sets and defects according to QA standards & report status on the QA review report.
• Hands on test creation and execution of user stories (Smoke, Functional Integration, Regression testing) and logging defects.
• Engage Development Team in defect resolution & Lead defect review calls.
• Assisting Testing with other groups for Non-functional QA phases (Performance, Security, Accessibility).
• Provide guidance around QA strategies, proactive governance, and risk management for overall quality delivery of platform applications.
• Working collaboratively across scrums teams and testing team for our partner BUs to ensure success by applying best practice principles, and techniques.
• Self-Development and Training

Education and Experience:

• B S. /B.A. or M.A. /M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• 3-5 years overall experience for the execution and control of all aspects of testing
• Experience with Claude, Java and Playwright
• Expertise in Web based and Mobile testing, knowledge of J2EE applications testing
• Experience with testing RESTful micro-services architecture on the cloud
• Understanding of cloud database, NoSQL concepts (DynamoDB, Aurora) including caching (ElastiCache) and SQL for RDBMS

Technical Qualifications:

• Good working knowledge of test automation processes, concepts, and tools such as Selenium, TestNG, Jmeter, FitNesse, Postman, SoapUI, Protractor, Cucumber and Typescripting.
• Experience with multiple development methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid) & different tools (JIRA, Confluence, MIRO).
• Experience with ETL (e.g. DataStage, Informatica) data sourcing, transformation and validation.
• Experience with Rest API automation.
• Experience with Unix and scripting.
• Experience with developing and executing fast test scripts that are easily reusable and maintainable.
• Experience with Jenkins and integrating into CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge with the following AWS and technologies (e.g., Lambda, DynamoDB, Mongo, Glue, Athena, Parquet file format)