Quality Engineer

We are seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer with an Automotive company.


Role: QA Automation Engineer
Location: Plano, TX (Hybrid-Wednesday onsite every week)
Duration: 6-month contract with possible extension
Pay Range: $53-$55/hour


About the Role

• We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer with experience testing financial, fintech, or other regulated systems. This role focuses on validating backend services, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, and complex financial processes while ensuring solutions remain SOX-compliant, audit-ready, and fully traceable.
• The ideal candidate has strong Python automation, SQL, API testing, and CI/CD experience and can confidently collaborate with engineering, business, and audit stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional (NFR) test plans.
• Validate financial calculations, reconciliations, and backend data integrity using SQL.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites using Python (pytest) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Test REST APIs, maker-checker workflows, role-based access controls, and segregation-of-duties (SoD) scenarios.
• Validate event-driven workflows, message processing, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Verify audit logs, immutable audit trails, and controlled state changes across UI, APIs, and batch processes.
• Test integrations with third-party financial systems and ensure accurate inbound/outbound data reconciliation.
• Track defects through resolution and produce audit-ready documentation, test evidence, and reports.
• Collaborate with developers, accounting, control teams, and business stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
• Support release readiness, production triage, and continuous improvement of QA processes.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of QA/Test Engineering experience in financial, fintech, or regulated environments.
• Strong Python automation experience with pytest.
• Hands-on experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Playwright is a plus).
• Advanced SQL skills for data validation and reconciliation.
• Experience testing REST APIs using Postman, REST Assured, or similar tools.
• Experience with SOX/internal controls, maker-checker workflows, segregation of duties, and audit evidence.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing Java-based microservices.
• Knowledge of FastAPI and PostgreSQL.
• Experience validating financial calculations, balances, valuations, or immutable audit data.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud environments.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization.
Russell Tobin offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.


Equal Employment Opportunity
Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.


Fair Chance Employment
Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.


Accommodation
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.


Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates:
Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.


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