Senior QA Engineer

QA Engineer Contract Position

Mostly remote, but must reside near the St. Paul, MN area for occasional onsite meetings or workshops

Responsibilities:

• Operate independently as a senior QA for the team and support the delivery through functional & automation testing.
• Quickly assess existing systems and integrations to establish clarity, identify improvement opportunities, and drive stabilization efforts
• Identify and plan work effort by using test estimation techniques.
• Create and execute test plans/scripts/scenarios.
• Collaborate with team members on building test cases/scripts.
• Log and track issues/defects through to resolution.
• Support UAT and Go Live activities.
• Leverage Test Data Management for identifying and consuming data
• Strong understanding of QA&E processes
• Ability to be innovative in testing approach during challenging timelines
• Facilitate testing meetings, summarize results, issue/defect reporting, maintain metrics and provide go/no go recommendation.

Requirements:

• Good to have loan originations & loan servicing systems.
• Strong experience in Playwright and understanding of automation frameworks
• Ability to drive the automation first mindset.
• Experience operating across SaaS, COTS, and custom-built platforms with an understanding of differing support and delivery models
• Experience of testing programs with multiple integrated systems
• Strong experience in backend testing (API/DB)
• Ability to create and execute complex SQL queries
• Ability to use AI for testing purposes
• Good knowledge of Snowflake
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops or other Test Suite tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to handle delivery with minimum guidance.