Senior QA Engineer
VISTRA
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇵🇱 Poland
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudSDLCSeleniumSQL
About the role
- Ensure the end-to-end quality, reliability, and performance of the STAR application by delivering comprehensive automated and manual testing across UI, API, data, and integration layers.
- Perform comprehensive functional, UI, API, integration, and regression testing across STAR application modules.
- Validate data integrity, workflow accuracy, and end-to-end system behaviour for new features and BAU enhancements.
- Conduct cross-system validation for upstream/downstream dependencies and ensure alignment with business rules.
- Evaluate system performance, reliability, and edge-case handling during release cycles.
- Log, track, analyse, and verify defects using JIRA or equivalent tools with clear documentation and root-cause insights.
- Partner with developers, BAs, and product owners to triage issues and drive timely resolution.
- Participate in defect reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of code quality and release stability.
- Adhere to and help refine centralized QA standards, frameworks, and testing methodologies.
- Create, maintain, and version-control test cases, test scripts, and test data for audit readiness.
- Ensure all prerequisites for QA execution—environment readiness, access configuration, test data preparation—are met.
- Contribute to risk-based testing approaches and ensure compliance with regulatory and operational controls relevant to Investment Management.
- Lead automation initiatives to expand regression coverage and improve testing efficiency across UI, API, and data layers.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites using established frameworks and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
- Support performance and load testing strategies to evaluate system scalability and reliability.
- Drive continuous improvement through adoption of modern QA tools, automation best practices, and advanced testing techniques.
- Work closely with Product Leads, Technology teams, Data teams, and Operations to ensure QA efforts align with business priorities and release timelines.
- Participate in agile ceremonies, planning sessions, and release readiness activities.
- Communicate quality risks, test results, and environment constraints to stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.
- Foster a quality-first mindset across cross-functional teams and advocate for improvements that reduce operational risk.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field
- 5+ years of QA Engineering experience within the Investment Management or Financial Services domain
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, SDLC, and agile delivery practices
- Hands-on experience with test management tools (e.g., JIRA)
- Proficiency in Selenium or similar automation frameworks, and familiarity with BDD tools (e.g., Cucumber)
- Experience building automated test suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines
- Solid experience with API testing and SQL-based data validation
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities with attention to detail
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) (preferred)
- Familiarity with financial systems such as Paxus, Yardi, Solvas, or Investran (preferred)
- Agile certifications (CSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist) (preferred)
Benefits
- attractive insurance benefits
- flexible working arrangement
- excellent job exposure
- career prospects
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
QA methodologiesSDLCagile delivery practicesSeleniumAPI testingSQL-based data validationautomated test suitesCI/CD pipelinestest management toolsrisk-based testing
Soft skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillscollaborationattention to detailquality-first mindsetcross-functional teamworktime managementcontinuous improvementstakeholder communication
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Business AdministrationCSMPMI-ACPSAFe Agilist