Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Summary

Join Ocrolus's Mortgage team as a Senior QA Engineer and play a key role in ensuring the quality and reliability of client-facing and internal applications. You will design and implement comprehensive test plans, execute various testing approaches, identify and manage defects, collaborate with engineers and product managers, develop and maintain automated test suites, and contribute to a culture of quality. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills, a collaborative mindset, and experience in a fast-paced agile environment. You will work with various tools including Postman, Playwright, SQL, Sentry, and Grafana. This position offers the opportunity to work on a high-impact team and contribute to the future of lending.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in a QA Engineer or Test Automation Engineer role within an fast-paced agile environment
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, test planning, test execution, and defect management
• Proficiency in API testing using Postman and SQL
• Experience with automated UI testing, ideally using Playwright or Cypress with JavaScript/TypeScript/Java
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Github actions and issue tracking systems such as JIRA
• Experience working with monitoring/logging tools like Sentry and Grafana
• Ability to read and understand JSON structures and work comfortably with RESTful APIs
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative cross-functional team environment
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly document test plans and findings
• Self-starter with a growth mindset who can manage their time effectively and complete duties without heavy oversight

Responsibilities

• Design and implement comprehensive test plans and detailed test cases that align with product goals and technical specifications
• Execute a wide variety of testing approaches including functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and performance testing across web and backend systems
• Identify, log, and manage defects throughout the software development lifecycle; work closely with engineering teams to triage and resolve issues efficiently
• Collaborate with product owners, stakeholders, and engineers to plan and manage feature rollouts, including owning the QA sign-off process for releases
• Develop, maintain, and scale automated test suites for REST APIs using tools like Postman, and UI automation using Playwright with JavaScript/TypeScript/Java
• Write and execute SQL queries to validate backend logic, perform data integrity checks, and support test data generation
• Analyze logs, API responses, and metrics using tools like Sentry, Grafana, and Heap to validate issues, monitor test environments, and support root cause analysis
• Collaborate with designers and frontend developers to ensure UI reliability and usability, using design tools like Figma
• Take initiative to optimize existing QA workflows, identify areas for process improvements, and propose and implement tooling enhancements
• Contribute to a culture of quality by championing best practices in test coverage, documentation, and risk-based testing
• Ensure high customer satisfaction with our products and features

Preferred Qualifications

• Has QA experience of financial technology platforms or document automation systems
• Experience with financial data aggregation, data processing systems, or document processing platforms is highly desirable
• Security testing knowledge would be good to have

Benefits

Remote-first company