Senior QA Automation Engineer

Your Team Responsibilities

We are seeking a detail-oriented and technically skilled Senior Associate – Quality Assurance professional to join our Private Capital Solutions (PCS) team. This role is critical in ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products through a combination of manual, automation, and performance testing practices. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with modern QA frameworks and tools like Playwright, Azure DevOps, and JMeter, and will contribute to automation strategy, execution, and team guidance across key PCS initiatives including investment dashboards and analytics.

• Ensure high-quality delivery of software through rigorous QA processes across manual, automation, and performance testing.

• Support both BAU QA tasks and new initiatives by executing comprehensive test coverage across platforms, APIs, and dashboards.

• Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and business analysts to align QA deliverables with business and release priorities.

• Contribute to automation framework maintenance, regression test planning, and release readiness assessments.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, and QA effort estimation.

• Mentor junior QA team members and share best practices in tools, frameworks, and quality standards.

Your Key Responsibilities

Automation Testing:

• Design and implement automated test scripts using Microsoft Playwright with Page Object Model (POM) design patterns.

• Build and maintain custom automation frameworks for both UI and API validations.

• Integrate automated test suites into Azure DevOps pipelines using YAML; CI/CD pipeline knowledge preferred.

• Debug script failures, enhance selector logic (including XPath), and leverage AI tools (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT) to improve QA efficiency.

Manual Testing:

• Analyze business and technical requirements to create clear, comprehensive test cases.

• Execute functional, regression, and exploratory testing; log and track defects in JIRA.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and accurate issue resolution.

• Validate entitlement-based access, filter workflows, and data correctness across dashboards and investment modules.

Performance Testing:

• Develop performance test plans and scripts using Apache JMeter.

• Configure JMeter components like samplers, controllers, listeners, and assertions for realistic load testing.

• Analyze performance metrics (response time, throughput, errors) and identify optimization areas.

Team & Process Contribution:

• Act as a QA point-of-contact in cross-functional initiatives.

• Drive improvements in test coverage, execution speed, and defect identification.

• Promote a culture of quality ownership, code/test review, and continuous learning.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• 8-9 years of hands-on experience in QA (manual, automation, and/or performance testing).

• Strong expertise in Playwright (or Selenium/Cypress), JavaScript/TypeScript, REST API validation, and Postman.

• Good understanding of financial services domain, especially private capital, investments, or portfolio analytics (preferred).

• Experience in creating and managing test automation pipelines in Azure DevOps.

• Proficiency in SQL, scripting (JavaScript or Groovy), and performance testing using JMeter.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools like JIRA, Confluence, Git, and VS Code.

• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and problem-solving mindset.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.