QA Automation Engineer

Job Role: QA Automation Engineer

Location: Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid – 3 days onsite/week)

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Interview Process:

1 round virtual/video

1 round in-person (in-person interview is mandatory)

Visa Status: US Citizen, Green Card, or H1B

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to join a high-performing QA Engineering organization responsible for testing and validating proprietary enterprise software solutions. This role emphasizes hands-on coding automation experience, strong collaboration skills, and a commitment to engineering excellence.

The ideal candidate is a team player with a solid background in building and maintaining automated test frameworks, who can work closely with cross-functional partners including Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Information Security, and Release Management.

Candidates without financial services experience will be considered, provided they have worked with large, well-established enterprise organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain test cases and test plans for proprietary enterprise software applications.

• Design, build, and support automated test suites to ensure software quality and reliability.

• Perform functional, exploratory, user acceptance, and automated testing throughout the SDLC and release lifecycle.

• Apply strong engineering standards and best practices to software testing and automation.

• Assist and mentor QA team members, including supporting User Acceptance Testing and issue triage.

• Contribute to testing efforts across the entire application stack (backend, database, frontend, and UI).

• Collaborate closely with business partners, product owners, and technology teams in an agile environment.

• Support high-velocity delivery while maintaining quality, safety, and stability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of software testing and test automation experience.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Solid understanding of testing methodologies including black box, white box, system, functional, exploratory, and automated testing.

• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand complex business and technical problems.

• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium and/or Appium.

• Proven experience creating comprehensive test plans and test cases for custom software.

• Experience testing web applications, APIs, and data-driven applications.

• Strong experience designing and implementing automated test suites.

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience in an Agile delivery environment.

• Familiarity with cloud-based platforms and services.

• Strong SQL coding and debugging skills.

• Experience with service-oriented architectures is a plus.

Manager Preference

• Strong coding-focused automation experience (not manual-heavy QA).

• Proven team player who collaborates effectively in enterprise environments.

• Experience working at large, well-known organizations (50,000+ employees) preferred.