QA Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an QA Engineer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial clients in Morisville, NC. Responsibilities : Ensure and champion quality processes, which allow teams to identify, report, assess and resolve problems found during testing, and proactively avoid reoccurrences. Create and maintain end to end test automation framework using Python/Java, SQL and UNIX. Suggest and implement improvements to the testing automation processes and tools. Resolve day to day issues and provide solutions. Be QA subject matter expert in specific areas across projects. Train and mentor members of the team to help them solidify their testing expertise, scrutiny and use of the tools. Manual testing will also be expected, but emphasis will be placed on devising and implementing test automation. Develop standardized procedures - test plans, bug, regression testing, automated test cases. Contribute to the automated testing efforts, ensure comprehensive test coverage by finding defects and verifying fixes. Required Skills: Key Skills Rating (Out of 10) Python or Java/Selenium 8+ SQL (Oracle/SQL Server) 7+ API Testing using Automation 8+ QA Methodologies 9+ Must have 5+ years hands-on experience in test automation programming using Python or Java. Must have in-depth SQL knowledge or similar Data analytical tools. Must have API testing experience using any framework available in the market (REST-Assured/Karate/SoapUI) Must have 3+ years hands-on experience in ETL testing using Control-M/Informatica/Cloud technologies Preference would be given candidates with experience in Financial/Regulatory domain knowledge Continuous testing experience and expertise required. Proven success in position of similar responsibilities in a QA environment. Thorough understanding of quality assurance methodologies, automation strategies such as BDD, In-sprint automation etc. Preferred Skills: Experience testing reporting frameworks like Tableau, Alteryx. Performance testing using JMeter/similar tools Experience with Snowflake.