A recognized financial organization is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join their growing team.
Responsibilities:
- Help create a culture that motivates teams to ensure zero defects leak into production.
- Work across teams to understand enterprise quality requirements and ensure adoption of core processes and standards.
- Implement the shift-left test strategy for each line of business
- Leverage open-source automation frameworks and tools across all levels of testing that integrate in the automated CI/CD pipeline.
- Participate in the Agile (Scrum) team process, perform required standard testing activities keeping the customer experience top of mind during the testing process.
- Work with internal teams to document test environment and test data management container strategies and provisioning for the different types of testing activities.
- Comprehend and decompose user stories/requirements to identify what tests need to be created and automated across all levels of testing.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in testing automation engineering with both functional & API based testing
- Preferred BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject
- Proficiency writing code in Python
- Experience writing end to end test scripts utilizing multiple services and reporting results
- Experience using SQL to join and query data across multiple tables and schemas
- Experience with AWS services including
- S3, Lambda, Dynamo DB, Cloudwatch, etc
- Experience with CI/CD supporting technologies
- GIT, GitLab, Docker
- Experience with up-to-date AI paradigms
- Large language models
- Classification models
- MCP for agentic workflows
- Dynamic prompting for LLMs
- Experience automating API tests and extensive knowledge of creating and leveraging mocks, stubs, and virtual services to fulfill test automation requirement
- Automating tests for the full solution stack (unit, business logic, contract, usability, functional, performance)
- Experience testing AI implementations and an understanding of the risks models pose to systems and the business at large
Desired Skills:
- Experience leaving feedback on Merge/Pull Requests to ensure teams follow best practices
- Financial services technology / consumer banking testing experience
- Experience with Genesys IVR and Salesforce is a plus
- Extensive knowledge of:
- White Box Testing practices
- Software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous integration and continuous deployment concepts (CI & CD), and test suite development and maintenance
- Working knowledge of:
- Commonly used ML/AI Python libraries/packages
- Spacy, nltk, etc
- Commonly used ML/AI Python libraries/packages
- Experience in troubleshooting issues and root cause analysis
- Possesses a deep understanding of shift-left test practices and techniques along with the frameworks, and tools that support it.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Enthusiastic and energetic with an inherent curiosity to break code.
