Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer, Officer
State Street4 days ago
Base Salary
$75k - $124k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing activities.
- Review requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for completeness, clarity, testability, and business alignment.
- Create, maintain, and execute detailed positive, negative, boundary, exception, and business-critical test scenarios and cases.
- Maintain traceability among requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, results, defects, and test evidence.
- Document and manage defects through closure with reproduction steps, expected and actual results, severity, priority, logs, screenshots, and business impact.
- Validate financial workflows, business rules, data, interfaces, reports, integrations, nightly batch cycles, scheduled jobs, dependencies, and processing results.
- Work with business users, business analysts, product owners, subject-matter experts, and technology teams to clarify requirements, investigate issues, support UAT, and confirm outcomes.
- Support regression testing, release cycles, production readiness, post-release validation, and reporting on coverage, defects, risks, and release readiness.
- Drive QA strategy, testing standards, traceability, test evidence, defect quality, and release reporting.
- Mentor and guide junior QA team members and help establish consistent QA practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field.
- 5+ years of hands-on software QA/testing experience, preferably in financial services.
- Strong financial-services domain knowledge, including financial applications, transactions, data flows, batch cycles, scheduled jobs, business processes, and system integrations.
- Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, QA processes, release management, and the software testing lifecycle.
- Experience creating, managing, and executing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test cases with requirements-to-test traceability and test evidence.
- Hands-on experience with test and defect-management tools such as JIRA and XRAY.
- Knowledge of modern QA and AI-assisted technologies for requirements analysis, test-case development, defect analysis, test-data analysis, and documentation.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, prioritization, ownership, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Ability to work effectively with technical teams, business users, and stakeholders and to mentor junior QA team members.
Benefits
- Onsite four days per week and remote one day per week.
- Standard business hours aligned to project and stakeholder needs, stated as 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Retirement savings plan with company match.
- Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family-care responsibilities.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Eligibility for annual performance-based incentive compensation and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
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About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.