Senior Quality Engineer

TEKsystems is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer for a 12 month plus contract. The role requires the consultant to sit onsite in Phoenix five days a week. The rate for this role is $50/hr - $55/hr.

The Senior Quality Engineer – Document Management Platform is responsible for defining, building, and executing the quality strategy for the enterprise document management platform within the Document Management Modernization program.

Responsible for implementation of the quality strategy, test architecture, and automation frameworks, embedding quality throughout the development lifecycle.

The Senior QE partners closely with engineers and the Technical Delivery Lead to ensure continuous validation of ingestion pipelines, AI enrichment, and compliance controls in a regulated environment.

Operating within an Agile delivery model, this role is accountable for delivering high-quality automated tests, supporting sprint commitments, and maintaining strong engineering discipline in quality execution.

• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites for APIs and services; expand coverage while keeping tests deterministic and fast.
• Create reusable automation patterns (data builders, helpers, stubs/mocks where appropriate) to reduce duplication and improve maintainability.
• Own regression automation health: flake reduction, runtime optimization (parallelization where appropriate), and clear failure triage signals.

• Define and implement a layered test strategy (unit, component/service, integration, end-to-end) aligned to change risk and payment criticality.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD and define/enforce quality gates for merge and promotion readiness (evidence-based Definition of Done).
• Drive defect prevention: analyze defect leakage trends, run retrospectives on escapes, and implement systemic fixes (test gaps, unclear requirements, missing validations).

• Partner with engineers, architects, and BSAs/POs early to clarify acceptance criteria, edge cases, and testability; translate behavior into executable checks where appropriate.
• Provide quality feedback during design and PR review cycles; promote testability, observability, and safe change patterns.
• Support release readiness by validating test evidence and coordinating with change/release processes as needed.

• Contribute to performance and resiliency validation approaches where appropriate (test data, scenarios, and automation hooks).
• Ensure monitoring and diagnostic artifacts exist for failures (logs/metrics/traces) and that test failures are actionable.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering with strong automation expertise.
• Strong programming skills in Python for test automation and API testing.
• Experience testing event-driven systems, data pipelines, or distributed architectures.
• Hands‑on Azure experience (e.g., Service Bus, Blob Storage, Azure SQL, AI Search, Azure OpenAI, Dev Ops).
• Experience with REST API testing, OpenAPI contracts, and integration validation.
• Understanding of data quality, metadata validation, and complex system testing.
• Experience testing security and compliance controls (RBAC, audit logs, data protection).
• Exposure to AI/LLM testing or prompt validation is a strong plus.
• Experience in regulated environments (financial services preferred).

Expert Level

This is a Contract position based out of Phoenix, AZ.

The pay range for this position is $45.00 - $50.00/hr.

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long‑term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position…