Qa analyst ii

$40 - $49 per hour

Randstad

job summary:
The Deals Experience team builds and maintains highly visible, customer facing web and mobile experiences that support major sales and promotional events. The team focuses on delivering reliable, high performance, and intuitive journeys that directly impact customer engagement and revenue. By partnering closely with product, design, and engineering, the team proactively identifies risk and embeds quality and scalability into every stage of the development lifecycle. Our work ensures customers can confidently discover, shop, and complete deals-even during peak traffic and high impact launches.

location: Richfield, Minnesota
job type: Contract
salary: $40 - 49 per hour
work hours: 9am to 5pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:
Job Title: IT - QA Analyst II

Job Description: Senior QA Engineer - 33140

REQ ID - Senior QA Engineer - Deals Experience

1. Are we looking for local or non-local candidates? - Local

2. If local, will they need to be onsite - Yes 2 days a week in office /Tuesday and Wednesday in office

3. If onsite, what is the onsite schedule for your team? 9 am to 5 pm

Would you like to receive all resumes, or the top 7-10 resumes?

Top 7-10 resumes.

Tell us about your department:

Digital Analytics and Technology

Project Description:

The Deals Experience team builds and maintains highly visible, customer facing web and mobile experiences that support major sales and promotional events. The team focuses on delivering reliable, high performance, and intuitive journeys that directly impact customer engagement and revenue. By partnering closely with product, design, and engineering, the team proactively identifies risk and embeds quality and scalability into every stage of the development lifecycle. Our work ensures customers can confidently discover, shop, and complete deals-even during peak traffic and high impact launches.

Position Summary/Job Description:

As a QA Engineer - Deals Experience, you will serve as a technical quality leader for our deals experiences across web and mobile experiences. You will heavily influence quality strategy end to end, influence engineering and product decisions, and ensure our customer facing solutions meet the highest standards for reliability, performance, and usability-especially during high impact sales and promotional events.

In this role, you will go beyond execution to define quality approaches, mentor others, and embed quality engineering best practices into the development lifecycle. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to proactively identify risk, design scalable test automation solutions, and continuously raise the quality bar.

This role is hybrid, meaning you will work some days at our corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota, and some days virtually.

What You'll Do

- Act as a quality owner and technical leader, driving quality mindset and standards across the Deals Experience team.

- Partner with product and engineering leaders to define quality strategy, assess risk, and influence scope and delivery decisions.

- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable automated testing frameworks for web and mobile applications.

- Ensure strong end to end, integration, regression, and release test coverage across complex customer journeys.

- Review requirements, designs, and architecture with a quality lens, identifying gaps, edge cases, and long term risks early.

- Own testing strategy for high visibility launches, including major sales and promotions, ensuring operational readiness.

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, promoting fast feedback and high confidence releases.

- Drive testing practices, including testability, observability, and defect prevention.

- Analyze production issues, identify root causes, and partner with teams to implement long term quality improvements.

- Mentor and guide other QA engineers, fostering strong test design, automation, and troubleshooting skills.

- Continuously evaluate and improve tools, frameworks, and processes to scale quality with increasing platform complexity.

- Plan, write, execute test cases in web, app (ios/android) - manual/automation

- Manage release communications with release teams and maintain quality gates

Skills Overview:

What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

- 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or Software Test Engineering for web and/or mobile applications.

- Proven experience testing large scale applications built with React, React Native, and Next.js.

- Deep hands on experience with end to end and UI test automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Jest, Detox).

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, including asynchronous programming patterns and test framework design.

- Demonstrated ability to define test cases and strategies not just execute test cases.

- Excellent attention to detail with a strong track record of identifying complex defects and systemic quality risks.

- Strong ability to work in a highly collaborate and cross team environment.

- Experience monitoring and troubleshooting production systems using tools such as Splunk, Kibana, Grafana, and Dynatrace.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

- Experience working with Android and iOS native applications and mobile test automation.

- Strong experience embedding testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

- Proven ability to test and validate performance, accessibility (WCAG), and responsive design at scale.

- Experience influencing cross functional teams and advocating for quality in fast paced, agile environments.

qualifications:
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