Senior QA Engineer - Test Strategy & Automation (Remote)

icwgroup; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K with match

Paid time off

Job summary

icwgroup is seeking a remote Quality Engineering lead to own the test strategy for an insurance delivery team. You will drive shift-left practices and build automated solutions that improve quality across the software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities include defining scope and plans, guiding quality discussions in planning reviews, and developing test suites covering functional, regression and API testing. Collaboration with distributed teams and data validation are key aspects of the role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience owning test strategy and planning for software delivery teams.
• Hands-on experience building automated test suites with modern frameworks.
• Practical experience with API-level testing, CI/CD pipelines, and data validation.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills with ability to influence within a team.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate tasks, delegate work, and review junior team output.

Responsibilities

• Own the complete test strategy and test planning for assigned projects, defining scope, approach, risk assessment, criteria, and coverage targets.
• Drive quality discussions in grooming, sprint planning, and design reviews; set quality objectives and ensure delivery against them.
• Develop, execute, and maintain test plans, cases, and scripts covering functional, regression, integration, API, and exploratory testing.
• Build and extend automated test suites using Playwright for UI and Postman/Newman for API testing.
• Contribute automated tests to CI/CD pipelines including Jenkins and GitHub Actions for regression and feature validation.
• Validate data integrity across ETL pipelines and end-to-end reconciliation across integrated systems.
• Identify and document defects, perform root-cause analysis, and participate in code reviews.
• Coordinate quality activities with distributed/offshore vendor partners and report defects/automation metrics.

Skills

Automation testing

CI/CD

API testing

Data validation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related

Tools

Playwright

Postman

Newman

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

icwgroup is seeking a remote Quality Engineering lead to own the test strategy for an insurance delivery team. You will drive shift-left practices and build automated solutions that improve quality across the software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities include defining scope and plans, guiding quality discussions in planning reviews, and developing test suites covering functional, regression and API testing. Collaboration with distributed teams and data validation are key aspects of the role.