Senior QA Engineer – Remote, Data-Driven & Automation Lead

TestDevJobs; United States; Remote; USD 58,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401K, P

TO: PTO and sick days

Job summary

Paradigm Information Services is hiring a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to support a global technology-enabled legal services client. This contract role is fully remote within approved U.S. hiring locations and pays $42–$52 per hour.

The assignment spans 12 months with potential extension and is focused on high-volume, data-intensive software testing. The ideal candidate combines manual and automated testing expertise, SQL proficiency, and strong collaboration skills, able to mentor other QA

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software QA and testing.
• Strong experience with both manual and automated testing.
• Experience with white-box and black-box testing strategies.
• Hands-on experience building automated test scripts using Selenium or Playwright.
• 3+ years of database testing experience, including SQL queries.
• 3+ years of experience in an Agile software development lifecycle.
• 3+ years of testing multi-tier client/server applications.
• Understanding of software development frameworks and terminology.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and/or Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex software issues and work independently within cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases from component through UAT.
• Perform manual testing: smoke, sanity, regression and UAT.
• Build and maintain automated test scripts using Selenium or Playwright.
• Test backend and database functionality and write SQL queries.
• Review requirements to identify gaps, risks and testing needs.
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts and QA staff throughout the lifecycle.
• Identify, document, report and troubleshoot defects and verify fixes.
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies and testing across the SDLC.
• Develop QA metrics such as test coverage and confidence.
• Mentor QA team members in automation testing and best practices.

Skills

Manual Testing

Automated Testing

SQL Queries

Agile Methodologies

Problem Solving

Team Collaboration

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio Team System

Job description

Paradigm Information Services is hiring a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to support a global technology-enabled legal services client. This contract role is fully remote within approved U.S. hiring locations and pays $42–$52 per hour.

The assignment spans 12 months with potential extension and is focused on high-volume, data-intensive software testing. The ideal candidate combines manual and automated testing expertise, SQL proficiency, and strong collaboration skills, able to mentor other QA