Quality Assurance Lead

Senior QA Automation Lead (Java/Selenium/Cucumber) Enterprise Banking
Job at a Glance

• Location (On site): Pittsburgh, PA; Dallas, TX; Birmingham, AL; Cleveland, OH; Phoenix, AZ
• Contract: W2 only

• Own and define end-to-end test strategy for large, complex initiatives, including functional, integration, regression, API, and nonfunctional testing.
• Act as the quality engineering lead for multiteam programs, ensuring consistent standards, tooling, and governance.
• Coach, mentor, and provide technical leadership to QA engineers and SDETs across delivery teams.
• Influence system design early by partnering with architects and developers to improve testability, reliability, and quality outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with SDLC, PMLC, and enterprise risk and control requirements, including audit readiness.
• Build and maintain comprehensive automation suites for UI and API testing using tools such as Selenium, Cucumber (for BDD), and Karate (for API testing).
• Establish best practices for test automation architecture, code quality, and reusability.
• Drive increased automation coverage across UI, API, and backend services.
• Write high quality, production grade automation code using Java and supporting libraries.
• Perform code reviews and enforce engineering best practices within test codebases.
• Lead testing of RESTful and SOAP services, including contract validation and negative scenarios.
• Implement and promote service virtualization and test stubbing strategies to enable parallel development and early testing.
• Validate messaging and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka based systems).
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast feedback and high signal quality.
• Define and maintain test reporting, metrics, and dashboards to communicate quality, risk, and readiness to stakeholders.
• Validate data integrity across systems using Oracle, MongoDB, and related data stores.
• Design effective test data strategies, including data creation, masking, and environment management.
• Partner with performance and engineering teams to ensure performance, scalability, and resiliency considerations are addressed early.
• Apply strong understanding of banking concepts, consumer lending workflows, and regulatory considerations to test design and risk assessment.

• 8-10+ years experience
• Senior level experience as an SDET or QA Engineer, with a strong focus on automation and enterprise systems
• Proven experience leading testing efforts for large scale, multiteam initiatives
• Strong hands on expertise with:
  • Java, Selenium, Cucumber/Gherkin
  • API testing (REST, SOAP)
  • CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates
  • Kafka, Web Services, Oracle, MongoDB, and distributed systems
• Solid understanding of test strategy, governance, and risk-based testing
• Experience in banking or financial services is strongly preferred

• Thought leader in quality engineering who challenges the status quo
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels
• Strong communicator who can articulate quality risks and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Passionate about mentoring and raising the overall quality maturity of teams
• Banking experience is a great plus