Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Relha LLC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Ownership stake in the company

Medical and dental insurance

Time off

401k matching program

Tuition assistance program

Employee volunteer program

Wellness program

Job summary

Digital Disbursements, a fintech subsidiary of Western Alliance Bank, seeks a Senior QA Engineer to lead manual and automated testing across Web, API, and cloud platforms. You will drive test strategy, coordinate with developers and analysts, and build robust automation frameworks in a fast-paced agile environment.

Responsibilities include creating test scripts, driving quality metrics, and ensuring security and data integrity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience as a QA engineer with automated and manual testing.
• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• Knowledge of business/systems analysis and functional specifications.
• Detailed knowledge of software testing standards and best practices.
• Hands-on automation tools experience - Playwright preferred.
• Experience creating automation frameworks from scratch.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience designing, creating and executing API tests (Postman).
• Strong understanding of data integrity standards.
• Strong understanding of React.js.
• Strong SQL querying experience (MySQL a plus).
• AWS experience a plus.
• Ability to thrive in a small, fast-paced team.
• Strong problem recognition and prioritization skills.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent analytical and detail-oriented skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver automated and manual testing solutions for Digital Disbursements applications.
• Coordinate with developers and business analysts to ensure quality in new development and defect resolution.
• Establish QA standards, policies, and procedures across programs.
• Perform System, Integration, Data Migration, End-to-End, Regression and Exploratory testing on Web, Cloud, DB, and API platforms.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and reviews.
• Design and execute automation scripts and test cases; build automation frameworks and best practices.
• Report quality metrics such as coverage, test completion, and ROI of automation.
• Review code and execution across multiple environments; ensure security requirements are met.

Skills

Automation framework design

CI/CD integration

API testing

React.js

SQL queries

AWS experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Playwright

Postman

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll be an integral part of Digital Disbursements, a fintech company, led by a team with deep industry experience and a strong track record of value creation. You'll operate in the digital payments space and have a proven product market fit. You'll specialize in helping bring Business to Consumer payments to the digital age. Digital Disbursements was acquired by Western Alliance Bank (NYSE:WAL) in January 2022 and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of WAL. The Senior QA Engineer will be reporting to and working directly with the Quality Assurance Manager.

Digital Disbursements is seeking a passionate, results-driven Senior QA Engineer to deliver innovative, industry leading manual and automated testing solutions for our Digital Disbursements applications. We want a creative, highly motivated QA engineer who can take initiative, has a good sense of urgency and is comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment. As part of this goal, you'll play a key role in multiple phases of the development lifecycle including business analysis, test case design and documentation, manual and automated test execution, results documentation and display excellent communication and collaboration with all stakeholders. Additionally, you will coordinate efforts with developers and business analysts to ensure optimal results for new development and successful resolution of defects and provide frontline support and documentation.

Establish QA standards, policies, and procedures for all programs.

Meeting with the IT / Business stakeholders to discuss requirements and ensure software meets technical specifications.

You will be performing multiple types of testing (System, Integration, Data Migration, End to End, Regression, Exploratory) on various platforms (Web Apps, Cloud-Based Apps, Databases and APIs).

Identifying software testing risks, weaknesses, and target areas of improvement.

Participation in agile ceremonies including sprint design, planning, grooming and demo practices.

Demonstrate advanced programming skills, working in one or many automation harness solutions, creating automation frameworks and implementing best practices.

Designing and executing automation scripts and manual test cases.

Report on quality metrics such as manual test coverage, test completion, automation execution time, automation pass/ fail rates, automation coverage, and automation ROI.

Examine code and execution of code in various environments.

Ensure that security requirements and best practices have been incorporated into system functional design specifications.

Assess software systems to ensure that security development best practices have been followed, including ethical hacking techniques with proper notification and authorization.

Ensure that software systems comply with the IT Security Policy in all respects, including user authentication and session expiration requirements.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years' experience as a QA engineer with expertise in planning, designing and execution of automated and manual testing activities.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of and experience with business/systems analysis and development of functional system specifications.
• Detailed knowledge of software application testing standards and best practices.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools is required - preferably with Playwright.
• Intermediate to advanced experience creating automation frameworks from scratch and implementing best practices.
• Experienced in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Experienced in designing, creating, and executing API tests using tools like Postman.
• Strong understanding of data integrity standards.
• Strong understanding of React.js.
• Strong SQL Query experience.
• MySQL experience a big plus.
• Amazon Web Services experience a big plus.
• Ability to work in a small, dynamic programming team in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem recognition and prioritization skills.
• Superior work ethics and sense of pride and ownership in completing assigned projects thoroughly and in compliance with the requirements.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams including developers, product owners, and business analysts.
• Excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits you'll love:

• competitive salaries
• an ownership stake in the company
• medical and dental insurance
• time off
• a great 401k matching program
• tuition assistance program
• an employee volunteer program
• a wellness program

About the company:

Digital Disbursements is a subsidiary of Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands - Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank - that remain part of the company's heritage.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email [emailprotected] or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.