Quality Engineer

Rishabh RPO; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

Rishabh RPO is seeking a Quality Engineer in Plano, TX for a 6-month+ contract. The role focuses on end-to-end testing of financial systems, with emphasis on REST APIs, data integrity, SOX controls, and audit-ready documentation.

The candidate will collaborate across engineering, accounting, and controls, delivering scalable test strategies and CI/CD integrated automation. The position offers a hybrid work setup (onsite Wednesday) with a $70 hourly rate, and requires strong analytical skills,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of QA/test engineering experience in backend financial or regulated systems.
• Proficiency in Python with hands-on pytest for test automation.
• Strong test automation skills with CI/CD integration (Playwright a plus).
• Strong SQL skills for data validation and control testing.
• SOX/internal-controls testing experience including segregation-of-duties and audit evidence.
• Experience testing REST APIs (Postman/REST-assured).
• Attention to detail and ability to produce audit-ready documentation.
• Excellent communication across engineering, business, and audit teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional test plans for multi-step financial workflows.
• Validate financial computations, reconcile data across layers, and write SQL to verify correctness.
• Translate SOX and control requirements into executable test cases with developers and stakeholders.
• Test maker-checker workflows, RBAC boundaries, and segregation-of-duties via API testing.
• Test event-driven workflows across services, ensuring message delivery and idempotency.
• Verify audit events are generated with accurate content and timestamps in immutable stores.
• Test inbound/outbound data with third-party systems for schema correctness and reconciliation.
• Produce audit-ready artifacts for external auditors, including test plans and evidence packages.
• Track defects through lifecycle with traceability and closure.
• Maintain automated test suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines for every release.
• Generate and manage test data; review logs and troubleshoot across layers.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, release readiness, and production support triage.
• Help establish QA processes, standards, and best practices.

Skills

QA testing

Python

CI/CD

SQL

SOX testing

API testing

Critical thinking

Communication

Tools

pytest

Playwright

Postman

REST-assured

Job description

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Location: Plano, TX

Duration: 6 Months + Contract

Rate: $70 hourly

Description:

RM Notes: Hybrid, Wednesday onsite (every week)

What we're looking for

We are looking for someone who can work effectively across engineering leadership, business and financial stakeholders, technology subject-matter experts, and controls-focused teams. This person should be comfortable partnering with developers building the system, accounting and SOX stakeholders defining control requirements, and other teams involved in integrations, releases, and audit readiness.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience testing end-to-end financial system services, including REST APIs, event-driven workflows, external integrations, and data integrations.

They should be able to design tests that validate non-functional requirements as part of automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.

They should demonstrate critical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to translate business, control, technical, and non-functional requirements into clear, executable test cases.

They should be documentation-minded, able to produce evidence that stands up to external audit, and comfortable moving between engineering conversations and SOX/internal-controls discussions.

This role requires someone who can communicate clearly, ask thoughtful questions, identify gaps or ambiguity, and help ensure the software solution is correct, controlled, traceable, and audit ready.

What you'll be doing

• Design and execute functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and non-functional (NFR) test plans across multi-step financial workflows and state transitions
• Validate complex financial computations, reconcile data across transactional and analytical layers, and write SQL queries against the system of record to verify correctness and consistency
• Translate SOX, internal-control, business, and technical requirements into executable test cases in partnership with developers, accounting, and control stakeholders
• Test maker-checker workflows, role-based access boundaries, and segregation-of-duties controls, including negative cases, via API testing
• Test event-driven workflows across services, validating message delivery, processing order, idempotency, and failure handling
• Validate that audit events are generated for every controlled state change (UI, batch, API), captured with accurate content and timestamps in an append-only, immutable evidence store
• Test inbound data from third-party valuation/pricing systems and outbound payloads to systems of record for schema correctness, completeness, failure handling, and reconciliation
• Produce audit-ready artifacts, including test plans, results narratives, and evidence packages, that stand alone during external-auditor fieldwork without additional explanation
• Track defects through their full lifecycle, from identification through resolution, ensuring traceability and closure
• Design and maintain automated test suites, integrating repeatable test scenarios into CI/CD pipelines to validate functional and non-functional requirements on every release
• Generate and manage test data
• Review logs, query data, and troubleshoot issues across application, integration, and data layers
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, release readiness reviews, and production support triage as needed
• Help establish and improve QA processes, standards, and best practices.

Requirements:

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years of QA/test engineering experience supporting backend financial, fintech, or regulated systems
• Proficiency in Python with hands-on experience using pytest for test automation
• Strong test automation skills with experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (Playwright a plus)
• Strong SQL skills for non-trivial data validation, reconciliation, and control testing
• SOX or internal-controls testing experience, including segregation-of-duties, maker-checker workflows, and audit-reviewed evidence
• Experience testing REST APIs (Postman, REST-assured, or similar)
• Critical thinking and attention to detail, able to identify ambiguity, validate assumptions, and produce clear, complete, audit-ready documentation
• Effective communicator who moves fluidly between engineering, business/control stakeholders, and audit-facing discussions

Added bonus if you have (Preferred):

Interview process: 2 rounds video interview.

• Onsite interview for local candidate.
• Experience with Java services and testing within Java-based microservice environments
• Experience testing financial data for correctness, including calculations, reconciliations, balances, or valuation-related outputs
• Experience validating immutable or append-only audit data
• Experience with FastAPI backends and PostgreSQL systems of record
• Experience working in financial services, fintech, accounting-adjacent systems, or other highly regulated environments
• Knowledge of cloud services and deployment patterns in AWS
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices