QA Engineer

Right to hire position with a major investment firm. 

hybrid 3 days/week in Newark, NJ. 

Description: Quality Engineering

The individual will design, develop, test, and deliver high-quality test-driven solutions across multiple technology domains. The candidate must demonstrate a strong Quality Assurance background, a "break the system” mindset, logical and creative problem-solving abilities, effective oral and written communication, and excellent analytical skills.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• High-Level Requirements:
• Both Manual & automated experience
• Experience in end to end testing
• Experience with selenium and playwright with java
• Test artifact creation (test case design/execution)
• Functional testing experience with UAT testing
• Experience testing full stack (both front and backend)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts and frameworks for UI, API, and back-end validation using tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, and related automation technologies.

• Perform hands-on test creation and execution for smoke, functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing across user stories, applications, and release cycles.

• Apply a strong QA mindset to identify gaps, challenge assumptions, uncover edge cases, and proactively "break the system” to improve product quality and risk coverage.

• Develop Quality Management plans, test strategies, test plans, and peer review test cases for each sprint or release.

• Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams to validate business requirements, ensure adequate test coverage, support defect resolution, and lead defect review discussions.

• Maintain requirement traceability, test cases, test sets, defects, and QA status reporting in approved quality tools according to QA standards.

• Support non-functional QA phases, including performance, security, and accessibility testing, in partnership with cross-functional teams.

• Contribute to continuous integration and continuous delivery practices by integrating automated tests into build and deployment pipelines.

• Provide guidance on QA strategies, proactive governance, risk management, and quality best practices across scrum teams and partner business units.

• Stay current with industry trends, test automation best practices, and continuous improvement opportunities for test development and execution.

Education and Experience:

• B.S./B.A. or M.S./M.A. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• 5+ years of overall experience executing and managing all aspects of software testing.

• Strong functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing experience across web-based and mobile applications.

• Experience testing RESTful microservices architecture in cloud-based environments.

• Understanding of cloud databases, NoSQL concepts such as DynamoDB and Aurora, caching technologies such as ElastiCache, and SQL for relational databases.

Technical Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of test automation processes, concepts, and tools such as Selenium, TestNG, JMeter, Playwright, Postman, SoapUI, Protractor, Cucumber, and TypeScript.

• Experience with multiple development methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid, and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and MIRO.

• Experience with REST API automation, Unix, scripting, and developing reusable, maintainable automated test scripts.

• Working knowledge of AWS technologies such as Lambda, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Glue, Athena, and Parquet file format.

• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline integration is preferred.

payrate 50 - 60 per hour depending on experience.