Senior QA Automation Engineer - Hybrid

QA Test Automation Lead

Genesis10 is currently seeking a QA Test Automation Lead for a contract-to-hire position with a Regional Financial Institution located in Columbus, OH. This is a 3+ month contract-to-hire opportunity that is onsite 3-4 days per week in Columbus, OH. Compensation: $60.00 - $70.00 per hour, W2, based on qualifications.

Position Overview:

In this role, you will be part of a team working to develop solutions enabling the business to leverage data as an asset. As a QA Test Automation Lead, you will develop automation test strategies and frameworks, ensuring all IT SDLC processes are documented and practiced while working closely with multiple technology teams across the enterprise. Key technologies include COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, JSON, Swagger, zOS Connect, Java/Fuse, SOAP UI/Ready API, Git, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead quality assurance efforts for multiple concurrent projects focused on data publishing and integration, ensuring alignment with banking regulatory standards
• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to support scalable and secure operations
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies covering System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Collaborate with data engineers, developers, project managers/scrum masters, and compliance teams to ensure data quality, integrity, and traceability throughout the lifecycle
• Drive continuous improvement in QA processes
• Design and implement a scalable test automation framework and strategy
• Create daily/weekly test execution metrics and status reporting
• Assist the Project Managers/Scrum Masters to drive project team to defect resolution
• Leverage existing tools/techniques to streamline and automate wherever possible
• Actively participate in walk-through, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance
• Actively participate in the review of project requirements, data mappings and technical design specifications
• Analyze data, troubleshoot data issues, and create action plans to address data quality issues
• Collaborate with project team on defect analysis and triage
• Participate in production implementation verification and being accountable for validating system quality

Primary Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of testing experience
• 3+ years of test automation experience
• 2+ years of experience leading QA Analysts on a project team

Desired Skills:

• Experience in financial services (banking) industry
• Strong experience with SQL, ETL testing
• Proficiency in test automation tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, PyTest, or DBT tests
• Experience with cloud data platforms (GCP, AWS)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps)
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks
• Detail oriented and highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position. If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!