QA Engineer

$45 - $60 per hour | Seal Beach, CA | Hybrid | Consulting

QA Engineer (Automation focus) needed for large established California Bank - is responsible for analyzing, designing, configuring, and maintaining QA.

Full benefits while on contract:

• Medical (75% paid - Blue Cross)
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k

Basic

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Testing Tools:

• Test Management:
  Azure Dev Ops, Jira, Test Rail, or similar
• Defect Tracking:
  Jira, Azure Dev Ops, or equivalent
• Automation:
  Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar
• API Testing:
  Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI
• Data Testing: SQL, database validation, data reconciliation
• CI/CD:
  Azure Dev Ops, Git, Jenkins (or equivalent)

Technologies:

• Web applications (modern browsers)
• RESTful APIs
• Relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• On Premises plus Cloud-based environments (Azure/AWS preferred)

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of QA experience with strong emphasis on functional testing.
• Experience in banking, payments, lending, or risk systems.
• Hands-on experience with manual and automated testing.
• Strong experience in defect management and test lifecycle management.
• Experience testing financial or regulated systems is highly preferred.

Analyze business and technical requirements to develop detailed test scenarios, test cases, and test data.

Perform functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) for banking applications.

Validate end-to-end business workflows including customer onboarding, payments, lending, and reporting.

Ensure testing aligns with banking regulations, data privacy, and security standards.

Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for web and API applications.

Contribute to automation frameworks and improve test coverage across releases.

Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Execute automated regression suites and analyze results.

Log, track, prioritize, and manage defects through their lifecycle using defect management tools.

Perform root cause analysis and work closely with developers to ensure timely resolution.

Provide clear defect documentation including steps to reproduce, evidence, and impact assessment.

Monitor defect trends and report quality metrics to leadership.

Test web applications across supported browsers and devices.

Perform API testing using modern tools to validate request/response, data integrity, and error handling.

Execute data testing to validate data accuracy, transformations, reconciliations, and reporting.

Validate backend systems and integrations with third-party vendors.

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