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Inspira Financial · 1 day ago

Sr. Quality Engineer- First Dollar (Remote)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$91K/yr - $111K/yr

5+ years exp

Inspira Financial is a people-centric company focused on helping businesses and individuals thrive through health, wealth, and benefits solutions. The Sr. Quality Engineer will lead a team of QA testers to ensure the highest quality for software products, implementing QA frameworks and strategies while fostering a collaborative environment.

Financial Services

Responsibilities

Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline, and framework. Driving and improving the QA team in areas of automated testing and agile testing

Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools, and Techniques across the teams

Responsible for defining QA strategy, approach, and execution in development projects

Responsible for leading and directing the QA team

Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance

Performance management, coaching, and professional development for QA team; ensure testing skill set is up to date and capable of supporting the development effort

Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation

Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards

Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes

Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, application performance, automation, etc

Manage training and continuous learning of QA staff by means of short courses, conferences, meetups, certifications, etc

Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA teams

Work with development team to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals

Gather and present testing metrics and testing activities for the projects to key stakeholders

Collaborate with business partners, such as Customer Support, Client Services and Operations to incorporate feedback into the QA process

Facilitate inter-team communication across many agile projects within the organization

Measure Product Quality and share metrics with the teams, management, and other stakeholders

Balance best practice decisions with delivering high business value (right vs right now)

Be accountable for outlining detailed testing tasks (+ resulting estimates) during sprint planning

Ask the right questions (to developers, QAs), at the right time, to proactively avoid quality risk

Engage with developers to outline how a solution design results in dependency impact

Design and produce high quality automated test cases within a defined framework

Develop testable interfaces between the system under test and the automation framework

Translate existing manual regression test cases into automated tests

Assure automated regression test cases are integrated and passing in a nightly build process

Contribute to merge up/down through development process, adheres to a well-defined code promotion process

Employ static code analysis to identify test case readability, anti-patterns, & coverage

Monitor automated test results after code is committed and holds team to account on quality

Conduct cross team and inter-team automated test case review

Define, develop, maintain, and clean test data in support of automated test cases

Support and is accountable for timely releases and adherence to release activities

Collaborate outside of the product team to encourage a development community

Encourage self-study by promoting best practices and bringing in external perspective

Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback

Provide code review and analysis of teams’ automation code

Assist in managing and maintain regression test suite

Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases

Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities

Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open-source tools

Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs

Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved

Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs

Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements

Monitor debugging process results

Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions

Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts

Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies

Support and mentor junior team members

Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback

Accountable for outlining detailed testing tasks (+ resulting estimates) during sprint planning

Facilitate test cases reviews to stakeholders

Engage with developers to outline how a solution design results in dependency impact

Manage and maintain regression test suite

Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities

Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs

Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved

Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs

Liaise with internal teams (e.g., developers and product managers) to identify system requirements

Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts

Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies

Support and mentor junior team members

Support and is accountable for timely releases and adherence to release activities

Collaborate outside of the product team to encourage a development community

Encourage self-study by promoting best practices and bringing in external perspective

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Test AutomationAgile methodologiesQuality AssuranceCloud technologiesAutomation toolsPerformance testingSaaS/PaaS platformsSQLAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsLeadershipProblem-solving

Required

5-7 years of experience

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

QA testing related certifications (or willingness to obtain) such as Certified Test Engineer (CSTE), Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), and Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST)

7+ years of experience in software development industry

5 years of experience in managing a quality assurance team

Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban

Specialization in performance and load testing, security, automation, release management, and agile training

Hands on expertise with automation tools, frameworks, and standard methodologies

Proven experience in test planning, test design, test & automation strategy, and test execution

Demonstrated experience leading test efforts for Software and Product development

Understanding and ability to work on a variety of IT platforms

Experience working in Cloud environment (such as Azure and AWS) and cloud technologies

Experience following development and production delivery process

Self-starter, independent worker and have a love for QA

Hands on UI and API automation experience (JMeter, Blaze Meter, Postman, Python 3.x, Pytest, Selenium, BrowserStack, MABL)

Agile tools exposure (e.g., Atlassian products – JIRA, Confluence, GIT, X-Ray)

Continuous Integration tools knowledge (e.g., ADO, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Spinnaker)

Data validation and quality testing

Test Automation

Proficiency with tools such as Selenium, BrowserStack, Postman or other QA testing tools

Proven experience in developing and coding automation test scripts

Proven work experience in software quality assurance and development

Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes

Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases

Excellent analytical and communication skills

Proven experience preparing, presenting, and maintaining required SDLC documentation and artifacts

Experience with performance and/or security testing

Experience with complex technical integrations (APIs, web services) and SaaS / PaaS cloud platforms

Experience with any of the following: XML, JavaScript, .NET framework, T-SQL, JQuery, JSON

Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Familiarity with Jira and the software development life cycle (SDLC)

Practical AI experience - Comfortable using tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude for prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving

Leverage AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity multiplier while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated code meets quality standards

Demonstrated experience using AI responsibly to accelerate their development workflow, improve code quality, and solve complex problems more efficiently