Quality Assurance Engineer - PHP

Anywhere

Type: Contract-to-Hire

Category: Quality Assurance (QA)

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard

Hours:

Open

Reference : JN -

Date Posted: 11/01/2026

Shortcut:

Remote

Our client seeks a results-driven Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to support Policyholder Portal applications. The role requires manual, automation, mobile, API, and database testing expertise, with a focus on early risk identification, cross-team collaboration, and improved test coverage and delivery quality. The engineer will learn new technologies, validate complex workflows and integrations, mentor peers, and contribute to continuous quality improvement across the SDLC and STLC.

Insurance application testing experience is preferred.

This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. 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: $40.00 to $50.00/hr. w2

• Participate throughout the SDLC and STLC, reviewing requirements, user stories, specifications, and acceptance criteria for clarity and testability.
• Create risk-based test strategies, plans, scenarios, cases, and reusable test assets.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, system, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing across web, desktop, and mobile applications.
• Identify, document, prioritize, track, retest, and close defects. Support root-cause analysis and continuous quality improvement.
• Partner with developers, analysts, product owners, and stakeholders to validate complex business workflows, integrations, and customer-facing features.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test suites using mabl. Build reusable components and analyze results to expand coverage and efficiency.

• 7+ years of experience in quality assurance and software testing.
• Experience validating REST and SOAP services with Postman or Bruno, including requests, responses, authentication, business rules, error handling, and integrations.
• Experience writing SQL queries to validate data accuracy, integrity, transformations, interfaces, and business transactions.
• Experience with regression testing, defect management, and Agile or Scrum delivery practices.
• Strong analytical troubleshooting, problem solving, adaptability, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Clear communication, cross-functional collaboration, leadership, mentoring, and customer focus.
• Preferred:
  Insurance application testing experience, including policy lifecycle, coverage, billing, payments, claims, underwriting, renewals, cancellations, endorsements, communications, and regulatory requirements.
• Preferred:
  Experience testing iOS and Android functionality, usability, performance, and cross-device or browser compatibility.
• Preferred:
  Experience with mabl, Browser Stack, Postman, Bruno, Jira, or Practi Test.

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring 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 different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position.

All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. 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 in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more…