ICW Group

Quality Engineer II

ICW Group
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21 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$83k - $140k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own test strategy and test planning, including scope, risk assessment, entry and exit criteria, and coverage targets.
  • Lead quality discussions and establish quality objectives for the assigned delivery team.
  • Develop, execute, and maintain functional, regression, integration, API, exploratory, and automated tests.
  • Build automated UI and API test suites using tools such as Playwright and Postman/Newman.
  • Validate API contracts, payloads, error handling, integrated data, ETL transformations, and end-to-end data reconciliation.
  • Contribute automated tests to Jenkins and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
  • Document defects, perform root cause analysis using logs, stack traces, and database states, and participate in code reviews.
  • Manage test data, mock services, QA environments, quality metrics, and testing process improvements.
  • Coordinate assignments and triage with distributed teams and offshore or nearshore vendor partners.
  • Coach, guide, train, and review junior team members without having direct reports.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience in quality engineering or software testing, including at least 2 years in test automation.
  • Hands-on proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, including the ability to read, understand, and debug production code.
  • Experience designing test strategies and owning end-to-end test planning.
  • Experience with automated testing tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, or Postman/Newman.
  • Understanding of API testing, RESTful service patterns, SQL, database validation, data transformations, and ETL testing.
  • Experience contributing automated tests to CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with Git, branching strategies, and pull request workflows.
  • Understanding of the test automation pyramid, coverage allocation, Agile/Scrum, shift-left testing, and the software development lifecycle.
  • Exposure to performance testing tools such as JMeter or k6 and awareness of AI-assisted testing tools.
  • Ability to work independently, solve moderately complex problems, communicate effectively, coordinate quality work, delegate tasks, and review junior team members’ output.
  • Preferred experience includes insurance domain knowledge, especially claims management or insurance billing workflows.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • Bonus potential.
  • Paid time off and paid holidays.
  • 100% support for continued learning.
  • Challenging work, team belonging, and an opportunity to make a difference.

Tech Stack

Apache JMeterCypressGitGitHub ActionsJavaJavaScriptJenkinsPostmanPythonSeleniumSQLTypeScript

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