Lead Quality Engineer — Automation & AI Testing

Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) and pension plan

Five weeks of paid vacation (PTO)

11 paid holidays per year

Lifestyle Spending Account

Job summary

FHLBank Chicago is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer to elevate our quality engineering capabilities. You will drive automation-first testing, design scalable test frameworks, and lead SDET efforts across agile teams.

This role blends hands-on coding, test strategy, and mentorship to ensure built-in quality from design through delivery. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, HR, Finance, ERP owners, and risk stakeholders to embed quality into every SDLC phase, while guiding

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of Quality Engineering or SDET experience, including hands-on leadership supporting Workday, HR, Finance, ERP, SaaS, or related enterprise platforms.
• 5+ years mentoring or supervisory oversight to Quality Engineers, SDETs, or software delivery teams.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-scale automated test frameworks and quality engineering solutions for Workday, HRIS, Finance, ERP, SaaS, APIs, data integrations, batch processing, and financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Quality Engineering strategy across teams, including test management for functional, regression, SIT, E2E, UAT, performance/load, and test data.
• Architect, design, and maintain scalable test plans and automated frameworks for Workday, HR, Finance, ERP, SaaS, APIs, data integrations, and non-functional testing.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Operations to drive shared ownership of quality and production readiness.
• Mentor and coach Quality Engineers, influence standards, and support talent development and delivery execution.
• Embed automated quality checks and gates into CI/CD pipelines; drive AI-assisted testing and DevSecOps practices.

Skills

C#

TypeScript

Python

Playwright

Selenium

SpecFlow

AWS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Azure DevOps

Job description

FHLBank Chicago is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer to elevate our quality engineering capabilities. You will drive automation-first testing, design scalable test frameworks, and lead SDET efforts across agile teams.

This role blends hands-on coding, test strategy, and mentorship to ensure built-in quality from design through delivery. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, HR, Finance, ERP owners, and risk stakeholders to embed quality into every SDLC phase, while guiding