QA Engineer (Onsite In Milwaukee, WI)

Description

Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced Contract Quality Analyst to join a collaborative delivery team responsible for providing technology solutions for our Global Investment Banking team at Baird. This role partners closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to understand upcoming changes, identify risk, design right-sized test approaches, and ensure high-quality outcomes without slowing delivery. The ideal candidate brings strong QA judgment, a pragmatic mindset, and the ability to adapt testing depth based on risk, business impact, and system complexity. This role values speed with purpose-focusing on meaningful validation rather than rigid process-and contributes to continuous improvement across the team. We currently have two delivery squads and expect continued growth through both additional hires and consulting support. While much of the work is Salesforce focused, we have additional initiatives outside of Salesforce. Responsibilities: 1. Quality Strategy & Collaboration - Analyze business and technical requirements early to ensure clarity, testability, and shared understanding. - Partner with product owners, developers, and architects to identify risk, dependencies, and appropriate test scope. - Apply risk-based testing techniques to determine where deeper validation is required versus where lighter validation is sufficient. - Design pragmatic test approaches aligned to system complexity, data sensitivity, and change impact. - Contribute to improvements in QA practices, tooling, and automation where it increases efficiency and confidence. - Actively participate in design reviews and story refinement to identify gaps, clarify acceptance criteria, improve testability, usability, etc. - Identify, source, and manage high-quality, compliant test data, ensuring adherence to data privacy and security standards (e.g., synthetic data strategies). - Coordinate test environment and test data readiness, including environment dependencies, build readiness, and release timing, to ensure testing can proceed without unnecessary delays. - Coordinate testing activities across cross-functional teams to support consistent quality outcomes. - Coach and enable developers, peers, and team members to improve testing practices, quality awareness, and shared ownership of quality outcomes. 2. Test Execution & Validation - Design and execute manual and automated tests covering functional, integration, regression, and data scenarios. - Perform exploratory and scenario-based testing to uncover edge cases and high-risk defects. - Validate end-to-end business processes, including integrations across upstream/downstream systems and third-party vendors. - Ensure data integrity and expected system behavior across environments. - Coordinate and support user acceptance testing and release readiness activities, clearly communicate necessary information to stakeholders and delivery team. - Provide clear quality status and go/no-go release recommendations based on test results and observed risk. 3. Defect Management & Continuous Improvement - Own the defect lifecycle, including clear documentation, prioritization, and collaboration with the delivery team and stakeholders through resolution. - Communicate quality risks, defects, and concerns with appropriate context and business impact. Able to do this at all levels, including leadership. - Perform root cause analysis to help prevent recurring issues. - Use defect trends and retrospective insights to improve future delivery cycles. Technical Profile: - 7+ years of experience practicing Quality Assurance within Lean-Agile delivery environments. - Strong understanding of test heuristics, fundamental and advanced testing techniques, and industry best practices. - Significant experience testing complex applications across UI, API, integration, and data layers, including functional, end-to-end, and regression scenarios. - Working knowledge of application-level data flows, APIs, and system integrations. - Proven ability to collaborate effectively with product owners, developers, and architects. - Strong analytical, prioritization, and communication skills. - Ability to adapt testing approaches to balance speed, risk, and quality. - Ability to effectively influence quality outcomes with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Continuous learner with the ability to quickly understand new domains and technologies. - Experience contributing to or maintaining automated tests using common QA automation tools; ability to read and write test scripts is a plus. - Understanding of CI/CD principles and practices. - Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to solve complex problems, prioritize effectively, and manage time in a fast-moving environment. - Proficiency with databases and SQL queries. - Experience testing Salesforce-based solutions and related integrations. - Salesforce expertise is valued, but strong QA judgment and delivery experience are more important than deep specialization in any single platform. - Experience with web and mobile testing. - Experience with HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#/Java, and SQL. - Fintech or related domain experience.

Skills

Quality assurance, UI, API, SQL, Salesforce, CICD, Fintech, uat

Top Skills Details

Quality assurance,UI,API,SQL,Salesforce

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Candidate Use of AI...Our interviews are designed to assess the skills and qualities essential for the role, including your ability to collaborate and communicate effectively. We expect candidates to participate authentically, without relying on AI-generated responses or note-taking during the interview. Additionally, candidates are not permitted to record interviews with Baird Associates. If AI tools are discovered having been used, this may result in candidate disqualification.

Experience Level

Expert Level

Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Milwaukee, WI.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $65.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Milwaukee,WI.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on May 20, 2026.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.