QA Engineer

Prominent; Colorado; On-site; USD 65,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Prominent is seeking a Quality Assurance Leader to oversee testing initiatives across multiple projects in a banking/fintech environment. You will define test strategies, lead SDLC testing, and mentor the QA team, collaborating with senior stakeholders and global technical teams.

The role emphasizes test planning, automation, and continuous improvement using Tosca and Selenium, with experience in mainframe and web testing, ADA accessibility, and regulatory processes such as NACHA.

Qualifications

• Experience in Banking/Financial Services including Payments, Tax Payments, ACH, NACHA.
• Experience with Test Automation Tools Tosca and Selenium.
• Experience with mainframe and distributed applications.
• Web application, database, performance, and accessibility testing.
• Knowledge of Waterfall and Agile project management.
• Familiarity with Jira, SharePoint, Workday, and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple testing initiatives across projects of moderate to high complexity.
• Define, review, and approve test strategies, plans, and QA deliverables.
• Lead testing across SDLC aligning with requirements.
• Mentor QA team members and act as SME for applications and testing methods.
• Collaborate with senior management, stakeholders, developers, and global teams.
• Plan and execute testing phases; design test cases and scripts.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, tests, defects, and results.
• Support functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Communicate defects and risks with impact analysis and reports.
• Drive automation and continuous improvement; monitor quality metrics.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Quality assurance

Tools

Tosca

Selenium

Jira

SharePoint

Workday

MS Office

Job description

Candidates requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future are not eligible to apply for this opportunity.

C2C or 1099 not available for this opportunity! Potential candidates will need to have the ability to work W2 on Prominents’ payroll during the contract period.

Responsibilities

Quality Assurance Leadership

• Manage multiple testing initiatives simultaneously across projects of moderate to high complexity.
• Define, review, and approve test strategies, plans, and quality assurance deliverables.
• Lead testing efforts throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training to QA team members.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for applications, business processes, and testing methodologies.
• Collaborate with senior management, business stakeholders, developers, and global technical teams.

Test Planning & Execution

• Lead all phases of testing, including planning, design, scripting, execution, defect management, debugging, and reporting.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts to validate business and technical requirements.
• Ensure full traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and test results.
• Support functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing activities.
• Analyze, prioritize, and communicate defects based on business impact and technical risk.
• Provide regular testing status updates, risk assessments, and progress reports to project stakeholders.

Test Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Design and automate test cases using existing automation frameworks.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement new testing tools, methodologies, and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency, coverage, and quality metrics.
• Monitor and report software quality metrics and testing effectiveness.

Agile & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely within Agile Scrum teams to coordinate testing activities and sprint deliverables.
• Participate in architectural discussions, defect reviews, enhancement planning, and solution design sessions.
• Support change management activities and help resolve issues arising throughout the development lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the Banking and Financial Services industry, including:
• Payments
• Tax Payments
• ACH
• NACHA regulations and processes
• Experience with:
• Test Automation Tools (Tosca, Selenium)
• Mainframe and distributed application environments
• Web application testing
• Database testing
• Performance testing
• Accessibility (ADA) and User Interface testing
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile.
• Familiarity with enterprise tools such as:
• Jira
• SharePoint
• Workday
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Anticpated rate while on contract is within a range of $47 - 52/hr.