Senior QA Engineer - Automation & CI/CD Leader

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

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.