Quality Engineer

Job Title: Sr Quality Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL (Only Locals Required)

Duration: 12 Months contract+

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks, Test plans End to End and test suites across functional, regression, API, integration, end-to-end, performance, and non-functional testing.
• Own automation engineering for assigned applications, including framework standard adoption, reusable components, coding practices, test utilities, test environment, test data and long-term maintainability.
• Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, technical designs, API contracts, and data flows to identify quality risks and improve testability early in the SDLC with TDD/BDD approaches.
• Integrate automated testing, performance validations, quality checks, and release readiness controls into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster feedback.
• Develop and support performance, load, and reliability testing practices, including scripting, execution, analysis, bottleneck identification, and trend reporting.
• Manage test data and backend validation needs, including SQL validation, data setup, reusable test data patterns, synthetic/masked data usage, and data quality checks.
• Support test environment readiness by validating environment configuration, dependencies, access, integrations, test data, and pipeline execution stability. Use IaC, ephemeral and containerization to eliminate environment bottlenecks.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Operations, and Security teams to drive shared ownership of quality, automation, environment readiness, and defect prevention.
• Execute risk-based test strategies, optimize regression coverage, troubleshoot complex defects, perform root-cause analysis, and improve automation effectiveness.
• Support DevSecOps, audit, and release readiness expectations by validating quality gates, test evidence, security-related findings, and compliance-aligned controls.
• Track and communicate automation coverage, test effectiveness, performance results, environment issues, defects, quality trends, and delivery risks using Azure DevOps, GitHub, ServiceNow and related platforms.
• Mentor less experienced QA/QE team members and contribute to automation standards, CI/CD testing patterns, performance testing approaches, test data practices, and modern QE improvements.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 6+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, Software Testing, Software Engineering, or related technology roles. Hands-on experience as SDET designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests or test frameworks using modern automation tools and coding practices.
• Strong hands-on programming or scripting experience using C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar languages.
• Experience with modern automation tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, SpecFlow/Cucumber, Postman, API automation frameworks, and related testing libraries or platforms for emulation.
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines, Jenkins, or comparable platforms. Integrating automated tests, quality checks, performance validations, and release readiness controls into CI/CD pipelines with DevSecOps / secure SDLC practices is preferred.
• Experience with GitHub, Azure DevOps, source control, pull requests, branching strategies, test management, and defect tracking workflows. Strong understanding and use of KPIs for quality, defect, DORA or similar.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL for backend validation using platforms such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MS Access, or similar.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, databases, cloud-based applications, batch processes, and integrated enterprise systems, CRM, ERP.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as Artillery.io, JMeter, Gatling is required k6 or similar tools is plus.
• Experience supporting test environment readiness, including configuration validation, dependencies, integrations, access, service availability, and pipeline execution stability. Test Environment Engineering, IaC, Containers and Ephemeral Test Environments
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or comparable environments, microservices and Event based architectures, domain model understanding.
• Professional certifications such as ISTQB, CSTE, CSQA, Certified Agile Tester, AWS, Azure, or equivalent experience are preferred.
• Experience in banking, financial services, or another regulated environment is preferred.