Senior QA Engineer

crossriverbank; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cross River is seeking a Senior QA Engineer who will drive quality throughout the software lifecycle, building scalable automation and leading testing strategy across enterprise platforms. The role emphasizes ownership, proactive risk identification, and collaboration with engineering to release reliable software.

You will design robust UI automation with Playwright/Cypress, integrate testing into CI/CD, and continuously improve automation architectures for performance and maintainability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software quality engineering or related field.
• Proficiency with TypeScript.
• Experience with Playwright or Cypress.
• Experience designing scalable test automation frameworks.
• Understanding of testing strategies: pyramid, unit, integration, end-to-end.
• Experience testing Angular applications.
• Experience with Gherkin/Cucumber.
• Experience with AWS, containers, and cloud architectures.
• Experience integrating tests into Azure DevOps CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality engineering strategy across enterprise platforms, ensuring release reliability through automation and measurable quality.
• Design and evolve scalable UI automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, TypeScript, and Gherkin to improve reliability and developer productivity.
• Own micro frontend integration and end-to-end testing for Angular enterprise applications, covering critical user journeys.
• Design and implement automated integration testing, smoke testing, and post-deployment validation for Sandbox and Production releases.
• Integrate automated testing and quality gates into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and Octopus Deploy release workflows with automated reporting.
• Review test coverage across the testing pyramid and ensure unit, component, and end-to-end automation coverage.
• Conduct exploratory and manual testing when appropriate while expanding automation through repeatable scenarios.
• Identify quality risks early in the lifecycle through refinement and design discussions; propose mitigations.

Job description

Who We Are

Cross River builds the infrastructure behind the world's most innovative financial products. Our technology and capital solutions power payments, cards, lending, and digital asset capabilities that move money safely, instantly, and inclusively - trusted by leading fintechs, enterprises, and disruptors across the globe.

Our mission is simple: to build the financial infrastructure that expands access and opportunity for all. Guided by a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and purpose, Cross River has been named one of American Banker's Best Places to Work in Fintech year after year. Whether you're designing code, solving regulatory puzzles, or developing strategy, you'll join a team where innovation and integrity drive everything we do - and where your work helps shape the future of finance.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Engineer who is passionate about building quality into software from the beginning, not simply testing it at the end. You will play a key role in defining and evolving our quality engineering practices, automation strategy, and release validation process across our enterprise platforms.

The ideal candidate thinks like a software engineer, takes ownership of quality, and continuously looks for opportunities to improve how we build, test, and release software. You are proactive, curious, comfortable working with ambiguity, and able to identify risks and drive solutions without waiting for step-by-step direction. Ultimately, we are looking for someone who helps the engineering team deliver reliable software with confidence.

Responsibilities:

• Own the quality engineering strategy across our enterprise platforms, ensuring every release is backed by reliable automation and measurable quality.
• Design, build, and continuously improve scalable UI automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, TypeScript, and Gherkin . Drive the evolution of our automation architecture to improve reliability, maintainability, execution speed, and developer productivity.
• Own micro frontend integration and end-to-end testing across our Angular enterprise applications, ensuring critical user journeys and integrations are covered by reliable automation.
• Design and implement automated integration testing, smoke testing, and post-deployment validation for Sandbox and Production releases.
• Integrate automated testing and quality gates into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and Octopus Deploy release workflows, with automated test reporting and team notifications.
• Review test coverage across the testing pyramid, ensuring appropriate unit and component test coverage while taking primary ownership of integration and end-to-end automation.
• Perform exploratory and manual testing when appropriate, while continuously identifying repeatable scenarios that can be converted into reliable automation.
• Participate in refinement, design, and technical discussions to identify quality risks, edge cases, and testing requirements early in the development lifecycle.
• Investigate automation failures, release issues, and product defects through root cause analysis, working with the appropriate engineers until issues are understood and resolved.
• Proactively identify gaps in automation, testing strategy, tooling, and release processes, and drive improvements without waiting for direction.
• Define and publish quality metrics, test reports, and automated notifications that provide visibility into product health and release readiness.
• Take ownership of quality initiatives from idea through implementation, driving technical solutions to completion and continuously identifying opportunities to improve engineering quality.
• Effectively leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity, software quality, debugging, and test automation while ensuring all AI-assisted work is reviewed, understood, validated, and meets engineering quality standards before adoption.
• Evaluate new testing technologies, tools, and engineering practices and make recommendations that improve quality, maintainability, and team productivity.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, SDET, or a similar engineering role focused on quality.
• Strong software engineering and programming skills with TypeScript .
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright or Cypress or similar modern browser automation technologies.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of modern testing strategies, including the testing pyramid, component testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing .
• Experience testing modern web applications, preferably Angular applications.
• Experience with Gherkin/Cucumber or behavior-driven testing practices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS , containerized applications, and cloud-based application architectures.
• Experience integrating automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines .