Sr. QA Test Engineer (Quality Assurance)
Huron Consulting Group7 days ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USASenior
Base Salary
$95k - $130k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and execute manual and automated testing activities across the full software development lifecycle.
- Design, execute, analyze, and report on JMeter performance tests, including workload modeling and bottleneck identification.
- Develop and maintain reusable Selenium automation frameworks and Java-based functional and regression test scripts.
- Create test plans, scenarios, cases, test data, and database validation queries using SQL.
- Troubleshoot defects, perform root-cause analysis, and collaborate with engineering teams through resolution.
- Review technical designs and architecture discussions for testability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Identify release risks, support release readiness, and provide quality, risk, and defect updates to stakeholders.
- Support QA, UAT, and production environments and understand build and deployment processes.
- Review QA deliverables, guide other QA team members, and contribute to continuous improvement of testing practices.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and QA to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional QA/Test Engineering experience spanning manual and automated testing.
- Strong hands-on experience with JMeter performance testing and analysis.
- Strong hands-on experience developing Selenium automation using Java and maintaining reusable automation frameworks.
- Understanding of SQL, database validation, data integrity, and testing of data lakes, data warehouses, ETL/ELT, or data pipelines.
- Experience with functional, regression, integration, system, API, and end-to-end testing.
- Familiarity with AWS services including CloudWatch, EventBridge, QuickSight, Batch Jobs, Lambda, S3, Redshift, Glue, and Bedrock.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, JIRA, or similar tools and with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, analytical, root-cause analysis, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Preferred qualifications include Python test automation, AI-powered application testing, AI-assisted testing tools, Responsible AI, AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, Generative AI, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, healthcare data, and distributed-team experience.
Benefits
- Estimated base salary is $95,000-$130,000 USD annually.
- Eligible for Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, with total estimated compensation of $109,250-$149,500 USD annually including incentive opportunity.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision coverage, and other wellness programs.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm that provides strategy, operations, digital, and technology consulting to healthcare, higher education, life sciences, and commercial organizations. Revenue comes from advisory and implementation engagements, including cloud transformations on platforms such as Workday, Salesforce, and Oracle, and software like the Huron Research Suite for universities. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on NASDAQ.