Engineering

Lead Engineer QA

WinMax Systems CorporationLos Angeles, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 12, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This on-site Lead Engineer QA role at a leading fintech innovator offers an excellent opportunity to build and maintain critical performance test automation frameworks, directly impacting a mission to reinvent personal banking. You'll thrive here if you have a strong background in performance testing, automation, and SQL, and are eager to lead and mentor within a dynamic engineering team.

Quick Overview

Salary

$78 - $82/hr

Seniority

Mid Senior

Work mode

On Site

Location

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Posted

2 days ago

AgileJira

Job Description

Lead Engineer QA

Location: Los Angeles, CA(onsite)

Contract: 8+ Month

Job Description:

Client, along with its wholly owned subsidiary bank,Client Bank, is a pro-consumer financial technology innovator with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. Client invented the prepaid debit card industry and is the largest provider of reloadable prepaid debit cards and cash reload processing services in the United States.
Client is also a leader in mobile technology and mobile banking with its award-winning GoBank mobile checking account. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, TPG, Client is additionally the largest processor of tax refund disbursements in the U.S.
Client's products and services are available to consumers through a large-scale "branchless bank" distribution network of more than 100,000 U.S. retail locations and neighborhood financial service center locations, online, in the leading app stores and through 25,000 tax preparation offices and leading online tax preparation providers.

LEAD ENGINEER, QA

Responsibilities

Lead, build, and maintain performance test automation frameworks using JMeter, Jenkins and SQL, as well as contribute to the existing frameworks to be used by other SDETs and QA Engineers
Lead, build, and maintain performance test automation frameworks using ReadyAPI/SoapUI for rest-based APIs hosted on Amazon cloud and Azure cloud, as well as contribute to the existing automated frameworks to be used by other SDETs and QA Engineers
Develop and execute test cases related to functional load testing, stress testing, and end-to-end system load testing and automates them for regression and execution
Write SQL queries and scripts to create and extract data for testing purposes
Lead the creation of test strategy, test planning, and test execution related to performance testing like BAU load, stress, limits, end-2-end systems testing, database validations and automation
Be hands-on contributor and manage a team of QA Engineers through all phases of testing
Review requirements and design specifications, and derive test strategy to validate system performance, report test results, drive the defect triage process with stakeholders, while adhering to established QA and Project Management processes
Take ownership and work proactively with minimum supervision on the Performance QA teams assigned testing tasks and delivering them on time and efficiently as per project deadlines

Experience/Skills

Minimum 7 years of in-depth QA Engineering experience including hands-on performance and automation experience
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience acceptable
Proficient in one or more programming and scripting languages - C#, Java, Python, Groovy, JS
Must be hands-on with AWS and Azure Cloud API services testing
Must be hands-on with API performance testing tools JMeter, ReadyAPI
Must possess working knowledge of UI Testing Tools Selenium, Cucumber, BrowserStack, Appium.
Must be hands-on with complex SQL queries using databases like MySQL, MS SQL, and CosmosDB
Must be hands-on with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, and familiar with testing lifecycle tools like TestRail
Experience in leading and delivering for medium to large testing projects, including test automation
Strong analytical, multitasking, and organizational skills to manage testing on multiple projects
Experience with Agile methodology and concepts using JIRA or similar Agile tools
Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship**
Ability to meet the location requirement outlined above

Pay Transparency: "The expected pay range for this position is $78.00–$82.00 per hour. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications. Non-exempt employees are eligible for overtime. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, 401(k) without employer match. Paid Sick leave is provided based on state or local laws."