Quality Assurance Engineer

Role: Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Long Island City, NY

Duration: Long Term

Consultants Willing to work on W2 and F2F interview at Long Island City, NY

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated Quality Assurance Engineer with 4+ years of experience in software quality assurance, test planning, and test automation. This role is ideal for a

quality professional who is passionate about advancing automation practices, improving software quality, and helping drive the evolution of our QA organization across a diverse

portfolio of enterprise applications.

This individual will play a key role in promoting automation best practices, mentoring team members, identifying opportunities to increase automation coverage, and supporting the

QA team's strategic transition toward an automation-first testing approach. The position requires collaboration with developers, business analysts, project managers, and other QA

professionals to ensure high-quality software delivery across multiple enterprise systems.

Responsibilities: The candidate will have the following responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and reusable test scripts for web, mobile, and API applications. 
• Lead the expansion of test automation across multiple enterprise applications and identify opportunities to increase automation coverage. 
• Develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scenarios based on business and technical requirements. 
• Execute manual and automated functional, regression, integration, system, and end-toend testing. 
• Establish and promote QA automation standards, best practices, and coding guidelines. 
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and continuous delivery. 
• Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, product owners, and project managers throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). 
• Analyze test results, identify defects, perform root cause analysis, and work with development teams to ensure timely resolution. 
• Develop and maintain automated API, database, UI, and integration tests. 
• Track and report quality metrics, automation coverage, defect trends, and test execution results to project teams and management. 
• Mentor and coach QA team members on automation tools, scripting techniques, and testing best practices. 
• Participate in code reviews for automated test scripts to ensure maintainability and adherence to standards. 
• Continuously improve testing processes to reduce manual effort and increase testing efficiency. 
• Support performance, load, and security testing initiatives as required. 
• Maintain test data, and automation assets. 
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. 
• Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and automated test scripts. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure software releases meet quality standards and business expectations. 
• Stay current with emerging QA methodologies, automation frameworks, AI-assisted testing tools, and industry best practices.

Qualifications and Skills : 

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a quickly changing environment with strict deadlines
• Strong SQL skills, Oracle and SQL Server databases
• Knowledge of, UI Path test manager, Azure Devops, and Jira  
• Demonstrated leadership capability
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven communication and documentation skills
• Excellent organizational, troubleshooting and analytical skills required
• Knowledge of all aspects of the software development life cycle