Product Testing Engineer Job Northern Kentucky USA,IT/Tech

This role is for a Product Testing Engineer responsible for ensuring the quality and readiness of technology solutions. The engineer will proactively identify gaps in features and user stories, strengthen acceptance criteria, and collaborate with engineering and QA teams to define behavior-driven scenarios (BDDs) and test cases. Key responsibilities include supporting validation activities, triaging defects, and consulting Product Owners to improve requirement quality.

Key Responsibilities:

Review features and user stories to identify edge cases, negative scenarios, and requirement gaps before development.
Strengthen acceptance criteria and readiness quality, ensuring business scenarios and logic are explicit and testable.
Partner with Engineering and QA to define behavior-driven scenarios (BDDs) and test cases, including combination coverage.
Support validation and readiness activities through delivery and go-live, confirming scenario coverage and environment readiness.
Triage defects as they arise, reproducing and characterizing issues and providing clear risk framing to support timely decisions.
Act as a consultant to Product Owners on feature and user-story authoring, improving requirement quality across the team.
Document edge cases, test scenarios, and business logic into reusable artifacts that strengthen team knowledge over time.

Required Skills:

Demonstrated ability to identify edge cases, negative scenarios, and requirement gaps early in the delivery lifecycle.
Hands-on experience authoring BDDs, acceptance criteria, and test cases in partnership with engineering teams.
Strong grounding in Agile product delivery, including backlog refinement and Definition of Ready / Definition of Done practices.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority and frame risk clearly for decision-makers.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and balancing proactive gap-hunting with reactive triage support.

Qualifications:

6-7 years of overall experience, with 5+ years in test engineering, quality engineering, SDET, or a hybrid product/technical role delivering complex, highly integrated technology solutions.

Preferred

Skills:

Experience in financial services, payments, authorization, or network/transaction processing.