QA Testing Analyst - Senior

Huntington Bancshares, Inc.; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution is seeking a QA Test Automation Lead to enhance their Tech Modernization team. This role focuses on leading quality assurance efforts, developing test automation strategies, and ensuring data quality throughout various projects. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in ETL testing, experience in test automation, and a Bachelor's degree. The position offers a hybrid work environment, allowing flexibility between in-office and remote working. Competitive compensation packages are included.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of ETL testing experience is necessary.
• 3+ years of experience in test automation expected.
• 2+ years leading QA Analysts on a project team required.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality assurance efforts for multiple projects.
• Design and maintain automated testing frameworks.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure data integrity.
• Continuously improve QA processes.

Skills

ETL testing

Test automation

SQL

CI/CD

Project team leadership

Data quality analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cucumber

Selenium

PyTest

DBT tests

Azure DevOps

Job description

QA Test Automation Lead

Huntington Bank is looking for a QA Test Automation Lead in our Tech Modernization/Memopost team. In this role you will be part of a team working to develop solutions enabling the business to leverage data as an asset at the bank. As a QA Test Automation Lead, you will work to develop automation test strategies and frameworks ensuring all IT SDLC processes are documented and practiced, working closely with multiple technologies teams across the enterprise. Key technologies include COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, JSON, Swagger, zOS Connect, Java/Fuse, SOAP UI/Ready API, Git, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead quality assurance efforts for multiple concurrent projects focused on data publishing and integration, ensuring alignment with banking regulatory standards.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to support scalable and secure operations.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies covering System Integration Testing (SIT).
• Collaborate with data engineers, developers, project managers/scrum masters, and compliance teams to ensure data quality, integrity, and traceability throughout the lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement in QA processes.
• Design and implement a scalable test automation framework and strategy.
• Create daily/weekly test execution metrics and status reporting.
• Assist the Project Managers/Scrum Masters to drive project team to defect resolution.
• Leverage existing tools/techniques to streamline and automate wherever possible.
• Actively participate in walkthrough, inspection, review and user group meetings for quality assurance.
• Actively participate in the review of project requirements, data mappings and technical design specifications.
• Analyze data, troubleshoot data issues, and create action plans to address data quality issues.
• Collaborate with project team on defect analysis and triage.
• Participate in production implementation verification and be accountable for validating system quality.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of ETL testing experience
• 3+ years of test automation experience
• 2+ years of experience leading QA Analysts on a project team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services (banking) industry.
• Strong experience with SQL, ETL testing.
• Proficiency in test automation tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, PyTest, or DBT tests.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (GCP, AWS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps).
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.
• Detail oriented and highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical and problem‑solving skills.

Exempt Status: Yes = not eligible for overtime pay, No = eligible for overtime pay.

Workplace Type

Office. Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in‑office and work‑from‑home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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