Quality Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-01
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Quality Assurance - QA/QC
QA Automation Engineer
We are seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer with an Automotive company. Role: QA Automation Engineer
Location:
Plano, TX (Hybrid-Wednesday onsite every week) Duration: 6-month contract with possible extension Pay Range: $53-$55/hour
About the Role
We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer with experience testing financial, fintech, or other regulated systems. This role focuses on validating backend services, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, and complex financial processes while ensuring solutions remain SOX-compliant, audit-ready, and fully traceable.
The ideal candidate has strong Python automation, SQL, API testing, and CI/CD experience and can confidently collaborate with engineering, business, and audit stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional (NFR) test plans.
- Validate financial calculations, reconciliations, and backend data integrity using SQL.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites using Python (pytest) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
- Test REST APIs, maker-checker workflows, role-based access controls, and segregation-of-duties (SoD) scenarios.
- Validate event-driven workflows, message processing, idempotency, and failure handling.
- Verify audit logs, immutable audit trails, and controlled state changes across UI, APIs, and batch processes.
- Test integrations with third-party financial systems and ensure accurate inbound/outbound data reconciliation.
- Track defects through resolution and produce audit-ready documentation, test evidence, and reports.
- Collaborate with developers, accounting, control teams, and business stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
- Support release readiness, production triage, and continuous improvement of QA processes.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of QA/Test Engineering experience in financial, fintech, or regulated environments.
- Strong Python automation experience with pytest.
- Hands-on experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Playwright is a plus).
- Advanced SQL skills for data validation and reconciliation.
- Experience testing REST APIs using Postman, REST Assured, or similar tools.
- Experience with SOX/internal controls, maker-checker workflows, segregation of duties, and audit evidence.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience testing Java-based microservices.
- Knowledge of FastAPI and PostgreSQL.
- Experience validating financial calculations, balances, valuations, or immutable audit data.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud environments.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
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