Senior QA Specialist - Banking

Job at a Glance

• Title: Senior QA Specialist - Banking
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA; Dallas, TX; Birmingham, AL; Cleveland, OH; Phoenix, AZ
• Contract: W2 only, 6-12 month contract with potential for extension or conversion to full time with either the client or CEI
• Pay: $50/hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match

Overview

This role involves owning testing for medium to large features or applications within a financial services environment. The candidate will define test approaches, develop automation, mentor team members, and ensure quality standards are met through strategic and technical testing practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Own testing for medium to large features or applications.
• Define test approach, scope, and entry/exit criteria for assigned work.
• Identify quality risks and escalate proactively.
• Design, build, and maintain automated UI and API tests.
• Improve automation coverage and reduce manual regression effort.
• Troubleshoot automation failures and environmental issues.
• Guide and mentor junior QA engineers.
• Review test cases and automation code for quality and effectiveness.
• Promote best practices in testing and defect prevention.
• Ensure automated tests are reliably executed in CI pipelines.
• Provide clear quality status, metrics, and risk assessments to stakeholders.
• Apply domain knowledge to design meaningful test scenarios.
• Ensure testing covers real-world usage and regulatory considerations.
• Testing of RESTful and SOAP services, including contract validation and negative scenarios.
• Implement and promote service virtualization and test stubbing strategies.
• Validate data integrity across systems using Oracle, MongoDB, and related data stores.
• Analyze database impacts and downstream effects of application changes.

Required Skills

• 5-8 Years Experience
• Strong experience as a QA Engineer or SDET with increasing focus on automation.
• Hands-on proficiency with: Java, Selenium, Cucumber/Gherkin & API testing (REST/SOAP)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of test strategy, regression planning, and risk-based testing.
• Experience working with enterprise systems and distributed architectures.
• Banking or financial services experience preferred.

Required Education

• No Education Requirements

Preferred Skills

• Ability to balance hands-on testing with strategic quality thinking.
• Proactive problem solver who identifies quality risks early.
• Comfortable mentoring junior QA engineers and influencing team practices.
• Strong communicator who can clearly articulate defects, risks, and impacts.
• Experience in banking or financial services is a plus.

Why Should I Apply?

This position offers the opportunity to work on critical financial systems within a collaborative team environment, utilizing advanced automation tools and strategies. It is ideal for professionals seeking to leverage their expertise in automation and quality assurance in a dynamic industry.

About CEI:

As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers'' workforce and project requirements.

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