Quality Engineer II – Lead QA & Test Automation (Hybrid)

ICW Group; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401K retirement plans with company map

Paid Time Off

Paid holidays

Bonus potential

Professional development

Job summary

ICW Group is seeking a Quality Engineer II to lead the test strategy for the delivery team and drive shift-left quality practices across the SDLC. You will own automated test development, API testing, and CI/CD integration while coaching junior teammates and coordinating with offshore partners.

You will apply micro- and macro-level QA principles, leverage AI tools for test case generation and coverage analysis, and track quality metrics to influence decisions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in quality engineering or software testing with 2+ years in test automation.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or related field.
• Experience designing test strategies and owning end-to-end test planning for products or releases.

Responsibilities

• Own the complete test strategy and test planning for assigned projects.
• Lead quality discussions in grooming, sprint planning, and design reviews; set quality objectives.
• Develop, execute, and maintain test plans, test cases, and test scripts for functional, regression, API, and exploratory testing.
• Build and maintain automated test suites using Playwright for UI and Postman/Newman for API.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Coordinate quality activities with distributed teams and junior testers.

Skills

Programming languages (Java, Python,JS

Test strategy design

Automated testing

CI/CD testing

Data validation

QA collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

REST Assured

Postman/Newman

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

ICW Group is seeking a Quality Engineer II to lead the test strategy for the delivery team and drive shift-left quality practices across the SDLC. You will own automated test development, API testing, and CI/CD integration while coaching junior teammates and coordinating with offshore partners.

You will apply micro- and macro-level QA principles, leverage AI tools for test case generation and coverage analysis, and track quality metrics to influence decisions.