Senior QA​/Release Manager

Overview

Senior QA / Release Manager — Anywhere

Type:
Contract

Category:
Quality Assurance (QA)

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type:
Remote

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Date Posted: 02/01/2026

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A leading regional financial services organization serving individuals, businesses, and communities across the Midwest and Southeast. The organization offers financial solutions with a focus on innovation, customer experience, and responsible practices. It emphasizes community impact, operational excellence, and employee development while leveraging technology and data-driven insights to deliver secure and personalized financial solutions.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $55.00 to $63.00/hr. w2

• Lead efforts to develop, document, and implement QA processes and procedures to improve product quality.
• Create, implement, maintain, and enhance test plans, test scripts, and test methodologies for assigned systems.
• Develop software quality test plans and test cases and maintain standards for QA documentation.
• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive test plans to validate software requirements.
• Ensure a high degree of quality across programs, procedures, systems, and release documentation.
• Anticipate potential software problems by creating exhaustive test scenarios.
• Perform ETL testing across integrated data pipelines and systems.
• Document testing results in alignment with approved test plans.
• Identify and analyze defects and trace chains of events leading to failures.
• Identify areas for test improvement using analysis and metrics.
• Communicate critical issues and status updates in a timely manner.
• Educate, train, coach, and provide guidance to QA team members.
• Define environment strategy for all systems in scope and manage configuration and refresh cycles.
• Coordinate deployment calendars, schedules, and dependencies across multiple teams and platforms.
• Track and report code and configuration changes across environments to ensure release readiness.

• 5 to 20 years of QA and release management experience across multi-system environments.
• Proven ability to oversee code changes, configuration updates, and deployments across diverse systems.
• Experience managing integrated environments across multiple platforms beyond a single application ecosystem.
• Strong understanding of Agile Release Train coordination in scaled environments.
• Familiarity with release management tools, scheduling, and dependency tracking.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills for cross-team coordination.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining test plans, scripts, and methodologies.
• Demonstrated ETL testing experience with data validation across environments.
• Ability to analyze defects, trace root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
• Experience establishing QA documentation standards and continuous improvement practices.

Eliassen Group uses AI tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in reviewing materials to identify candidates whose qualifications closely match the position. All AI-assisted evaluations are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions.

The use of AI is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in hiring. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided reflects a W2 hourly rate; other options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

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