QA Engineer

Right to hire position with a major investment firm.

Hybrid Newark preferred (open to Ft. Washington, PA or Minneapolis, MN).

The individual will design, create, test, and deploy test-driven solutions across multiple technology domains. Candidate must demonstrate strong logical and creative problem-solving abilities, good oral and written communication, and excellent analytical skills.

• Design, write, and execute automated test scripts using Selenium & Cucumber for API Automation.
• Maintain and enhance existing automated test scripts and frameworks to improve test efficiency and coverage.
• Be well-versed with UI and back-end automation testing.
• Contribute to continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes by integrating automated tests into build pipelines.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and best practices in test automation and apply them to improve test development and execution processes.
• Develop Quality Management plans and test strategy for each sprint/release, review test plans, and conduct peer reviews of plans & test cases.
• Work with Product owners to ensure business requirements are adequate and that test cases are developed according to standards for both manual and automated testing.
• Update Quality Tools with requirement traceability, test cases, test sets and defects according to QA standards, and report status on the QA review report.
• Hands‑on test creation and execution of user stories (Smoke, Functional Integration, Regression testing) and log defects.
• Engage Development Team in defect resolution and lead defect review calls.
• Assist testing with other groups for non‑functional QA phases (Performance, Security, Accessibility).
• Provide guidance around QA strategies, proactive governance, and risk management for overall quality delivery of platform applications.
• Work collaboratively across scrum teams and testing team for partner BUs to ensure success by applying best practice principles and techniques.
• Engage in self‑development and training.

• B.S., B.A., M.A., or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 3‑5 years of overall experience executing and controlling all aspects of testing.
• Experience with Claude, Java, and Playwright.
• Expertise in web‑based and mobile testing, knowledge of J2EE application testing.
• Experience testing RESTful micro‑services architecture on the cloud.
• Understanding of cloud database, No
  
  SQL concepts (DynamoDB, Aurora) including caching (Elasti Cache) and SQL for RDBMS.

• Good working knowledge of test automation processes, concepts, and tools such as Selenium, TestNG, JMeter, Fit Nesse, Postman, SoapUI, Protractor, Cucumber, and Type scripting.
• Experience with multiple development methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid) and different tools (JIRA, Confluence, MIRO).
• Experience with ETL (e.g., Data Stage, Informatica) data sourcing, transformation and validation.
• Experience with REST API automation.
• Experience with Unix and scripting.
• Experience with developing and executing fast test scripts that are easily reusable and maintainable.
• Experience with Jenkins and integrating into CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of AWS and technologies (e.g., Lambda, DynamoDB, Mongo, Glue, Athena, Parquet file format).