Hybrid QA Engineer — Automation & E2E Testing

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Solutions Services, LLC is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer for a right-to-hire position with a major investment firm. This hybrid role in Newark, NJ requires designing, developing, testing, and delivering high-quality test-driven solutions across multiple technology domains.

The ideal candidate has a strong QA background, experience with Selenium and Playwright, and a proven ability to break the system to improve product quality. 3 days per week in Newark, NJ.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

QA mindset

Test automation

Selenium

Playwright

Cucumber

API testing

UAT testing

Full stack testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Selenium

JUnit/TestNG

Jenkins

CI/CD

Postman

Playwright

Cucumber

Job description

Creative Solutions Services, LLC is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer for a right-to-hire position with a major investment firm. This hybrid role in Newark, NJ requires designing, developing, testing, and delivering high-quality test-driven solutions across multiple technology domains.

The ideal candidate has a strong QA background, experience with Selenium and Playwright, and a proven ability to break the system to improve product quality. 3 days per week in Newark, NJ.