Quality Assurance Engineer

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Senior QA Testing & Automation Consultant to support a large-scale modernization initiative within a highly regulated financial services environment. This individual will play a critical role in ensuring quality delivery by leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT), validating business requirements, managing change impacts, and supporting successful cutover and go-live activities.

This position requires a strong consultant who can confidently engage with both business and technology stakeholders, influence decision-making, and drive testing strategies that align with business objectives. The ideal candidate combines deep UAT leadership experience with hands-on automation expertise and a strong understanding of enterprise transformation programs.

You are a strategic thinker who enjoys solving complex business and technology challenges. You thrive in fast-paced environments where collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management are essential to success. You are comfortable leading conversations with executives, business users, product teams, and technical teams while maintaining a strong focus on quality and delivery outcomes.

You bring a consultative mindset, strong analytical skills, and the ability to challenge assumptions constructively. You understand that successful testing goes beyond defect identification.

• Lead UAT strategy, planning, execution, governance, and reporting across a major modernization program.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to ensure requirements are clearly understood, validated, and testable.
• Establish and maintain end-to-end traceability from business requirements through testing, defect management, and final validation.
• Design and oversee execution of manual and automated test scenarios aligned with business-critical outcomes.
• Facilitate requirements validation workshops and challenge assumptions to ensure complete business coverage.
• Drive adoption and optimization of test automation frameworks to improve testing efficiency, consistency, and repeatability.
• Perform change impact assessments and ensure appropriate testing coverage for evolving business requirements.
• Support cutover planning, readiness assessments, defect triage, and production deployment activities.
• Provide executive-level status reporting, risk assessments, issue management, and escalation support.
• Collaborate with Product, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, and Release Management teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities to improve QA and UAT methodologies within enterprise transformation environments.

• Proven experience leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts across large-scale enterprise programs.
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management experience within client-facing environments.
• Experience translating business requirements into comprehensive end-to-end testing strategies.
• Ability to challenge, refine, and validate requirements in partnership with business stakeholders.
• Experience conducting change impact assessments and managing testing scope within dynamic delivery environments.
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium and Cypress.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing best practices, and quality governance.
• Financial Services experience, including Banking, Payments, or highly regulated environments.