Senior QA Engineer
Intercontinental Exchange2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end functional test coverage for assigned applications, including UI, service layers, and integration points.
- Perform manual, exploratory, regression, integration, and automated testing using risk- and value-based judgment.
- Define application test strategies and determine the appropriate balance between manual and automated testing.
- Provide evidence-based release-readiness assessments and quality reporting to engineering and product leadership.
- Use AI tooling and automation for requirements analysis, test authoring, coverage review, debugging, defect analysis, and reporting.
- Build and maintain Playwright automation, including architecture, abstractions, fixtures, test data, environments, CI integration, and reporting.
- Contribute to the QA automation framework and establish standards for fast, reliable, readable test suites.
- Triage, reproduce, document, and drive defects to resolution.
- Lead by example through code review, pairing, hands-on guidance, and support for QA automation adoption.
- Partner with software engineers, product managers, and DevOps to shift quality activities earlier in the delivery cycle.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering, including strong manual testing and hands-on test automation experience.
- Demonstrated depth with Playwright, including suite architecture, flakiness mitigation, test data strategy, and CI execution at scale.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering or testing tooling in routine workflows.
- Strong knowledge of functional testing, test design techniques, risk-based prioritization, boundary and negative testing, and structured exploratory testing.
- Experience contributing to or building test automation frameworks and explaining architectural decisions.
- Proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, or comparable programming experience with the ability to become productive quickly.
- Experience owning both manual and automated testing for an application in a hybrid QA model.
- Working knowledge of defect and test management tools such as Jira, Xray, or equivalent.
- Experience integrating automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with Claude Code or a comparable AI coding agent.
- Preferred: experience creating AI agent skills and custom agents and using or building Model Context Protocol servers.
- Preferred: API test automation experience across REST or GraphQL, including contract testing.
- Preferred: experience helping manual QA organizations adopt automation, AI tooling, or modern quality practices.
- Preferred: background in a regulated or high-reliability domain.
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About Intercontinental Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange operates global exchanges and clearing houses, offers fixed income and commodities trading platforms, and sells market data, listings, and mortgage technology to financial institutions and lenders. Its revenue comes from transaction and clearing fees, data subscriptions, listings, and software. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Atlanta, it owns the New York Stock Exchange and ICE Mortgage Technology, and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker ICE.