Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Ocrolus East; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative mortgage product engineering team as a Senior QA Engineer. In this pivotal role, you'll ensure the quality and reliability of client-facing and internal applications by developing and executing both manual and automated tests. You'll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to validate functionality, monitor API data integrity, and foster a culture of quality. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to a high-impact team environment where your skills will directly influence customer satisfaction and product excellence.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in QA or Test Automation roles in agile environments.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies and test execution.
• Proficient in API testing and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement comprehensive test plans and cases.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Collaborate with teams to manage feature rollouts and QA sign-off.

Skills

QA methodologies

Test planning

Defect management

API testing

SQL proficiency

Automated UI testing

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Postman

Playwright

Cypress

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

JIRA

Sentry

Grafana

Heap

Job description

The Mortgage team is looking for a highly motivated Senior QA Engineer to join our growing Mortgage product engineering team. In this role, youll play a key part in ensuring the quality and reliability of our client-facing and internal applications by developing and executing both manual tests and automated tests. Youll work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure the correct functionality of our client-facing user experiences, validate REST API data integrity, and help drive a culture of quality across the team. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable navigating complex systems bringing both strong technical skills and a collaborative mindset to support our fast-paced, high-impact engineering teams.

What you ll do:

• Design and implement comprehensive test plans and detailed test cases that align with product goals and technical specifications
• Execute a wide variety of testing approaches including functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and performance testing across web and backend systems
• Identify, log, and manage defects throughout the software development lifecycle; work closely with engineering teams to triage and resolve issues efficiently
• Collaborate with product owners, stakeholders, and engineers to plan and manage feature rollouts, including owning the QA sign-off process for releases
• Develop, maintain, and scale automated test suites for REST APIs using tools like Postman, and UI automation using Playwright with JavaScript/TypeScript/Java
• Write and execute SQL queries to validate backend logic, perform data integrity checks, and support test data generation
• Analyze logs, API responses, and metrics using tools like Sentry, Grafana, and Heap to validate issues, monitor test environments, and support root cause analysis
• Collaborate with designers and frontend developers to ensure UI reliability and usability, using design tools like Figma
• Take initiative to optimize existing QA workflows, identify areas for process improvements, and propose and implement tooling enhancements
• Contribute to a culture of quality by championing best practices in test coverage, documentation, and risk-based testing
• Ensure high customer satisfaction with our products and features

What you ll bring:

• 4+ years of experience in a QA Engineer or Test Automation Engineer role within an fast-paced agile environment
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, test planning, test execution, and defect management
• Proficiency in API testing using Postman and SQL
• Experience with automated UI testing, ideally using Playwright or Cypress with JavaScript/TypeScript/Java
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Github actions and issue tracking systems such as JIRA
• Experience working with monitoring/logging tools like Sentry and Grafana
• Ability to read and understand JSON structures and work comfortably with RESTful APIs
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative cross-functional team environment
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly document test plans and findings
• Self-starter with a growth mindset who can manage their time effectively and complete duties without heavy oversight

Good to have:

• Has QA experience of financial technology platforms or document automation systems. Experience with financial data aggregation, data processing systems, or document processing platforms is highly desirable.
• Security testing knowledge would be good to have