Sr. Analyst, Quality Engineering and Testing

Senior Quality Engineer

Job Description:

Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for validating software features as part of a collaborative delivery team. This role supports quality review of applications by developing test plans, test cases, test scripts, and automation assets in partnership with developers, business analysts, product owners, and project managers. The Senior Quality Engineer applies strong knowledge of quality assurance practices, automation frameworks, test data management, defect management, and Agile delivery to verify that software meets business and system requirements. This role is an individual contributor position and does not include team lead or direct people-management responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Review business and system requirements and provide feedback on testability, completeness, and quality risks.
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test scripts, test data, and supporting test documentation.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, API, UI, mobile, database, and acceptance testing as needed.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites that are repeatable, scalable, and aligned with application changes.
• Identify, document, track, and validate defects using established defect management processes and tools.
• Analyze failures, troubleshoot issues, and partner with development teams to support timely resolution.
• Support test environment setup, test data preparation, exploratory testing, and release validation activities.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives to represent quality considerations.
• Contribute to QA standards, automation best practices, reusable frameworks, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate quality status, risks, blockers, and testing progress clearly.

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:

• 4-6 years of QA testing experience across applications, services, APIs, databases, and user interfaces.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining automated test suites and test frameworks.
• Strong experience with Selenium for web automation testing and Appium for mobile automation testing.
• Experience testing RESTful and SOAP web services using tools such as RestAssured, Postman, and SOAP UI.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins and build tools such as Maven and Gradle.
• Experience with project management, collaboration, and defect tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Proficiency with version control platforms such as Git, Bitbucket, and GitHub.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database testing.
• Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Proficiency in core Java concepts such as OOP, exception handling, multithreading, collections, generics, and file I/O.
• Experience with Katalon Studio, Apache Kafka, Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and attention-to-detail skills.

PREFERRED EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENT

5-10% travel

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Travel to various work sites may be necessary.