Xformative - Quality Assurance Engineer III

POSITION PURPOSE:   

The purpose of this position is to advance the Xformative's Quality Assurance (QA) practices, establishing standards, processes, and best practices that ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality software.

This role will help design and implement AI-assisted testing tools and approaches to improve testing efficiency, accuracy, and coverage. The position is responsible for developing and executing comprehensive testing strategies, including functional, performance, and load testing, to identify risks and ensure applications meet quality and performance expectations.

Working closely with Software Development and Platform Engineering teams, this individual will integrate quality throughout the software development lifecycle, continuously improve testing practices, and help build a scalable, efficient approach to software quality as the organization and its technology platforms grow.

POSITION DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Establish, document, and continuously improve QA standards, processes, and best practices across Xformative's applications and platform.
2. Design and implement AI-assisted tools and workflows to improve test coverage, efficiency, and defect detection.
3. Participate in aspects of software quality assurance for Xformative’s platform and applications.
4. Triage, diagnose, report, track and resolve quality issues.
5. Detailed test plan creation, test case development, test execution and results documentation.
6. Assist with all aspects of functional, system, regression testing and UAT testing.
7. Participate in performance and load testing, in addition to functional testing, to validate system scalability, reliability, and responsiveness.
8. Collaborate closely with the development team and platform engineering team to align on test strategy, environment readiness, and release quality.
9. Provide support to users regarding escalations and software.
10. Perform additional duties as requested.
11. Own code coverage standards and the Coveralls (or equivalent) reporting/enforcement/notification pipeline in CI.

POSITIONAL COMPETENCIES:

1. Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), regression, integration and performance automation tools, testing mobile applications, and security testing.
2. Substantial Experience developing and executing manual and automated test suites. 
3. Substantial Experience with QA tools and techniques. Including but not limited to test suite software, automation tools, defect tracking systems, business requirement documentation systems, etc 
4. Substantial Experience taking requirements and creating test suites with the ability to see the bigger impact of systems changes across multiple systems. 
5. Experience testing integrated environments and troubleshooting across an integrated platform.
6. Experience designing, building, or implementing AI-assisted tools, scripts, or workflows to enhance test coverage, efficiency, and defect detection.
7. Experience with performance and load testing tools and methodologies to validate system scalability, reliability, and responsiveness.
8. Strong collaboration skills, with experience partnering closely with development and platform engineering teams to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
9. Experience measuring, reporting, and alerting on coverage regressions.

QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE):

1. Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience in a similar role within the technology sector.
2. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. 
3. 5 or more years of software testing / quality assurance.
4. Fintech experience preferred, or equivalent experience with regulated environments with compliance requirements (e.g., SOC2, PCI DSS)
5. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Github Actions preferred)
6. Experience working with AWS and its managed products (AWS Lambda, ECS, SNS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch)
7. Familiarity with control plane architecture, supporting multiple AWS accounts and organizations.
8. Experience with performance and load testing tools and methodologies.
9. Experience leveraging AI tools or scripting to build or enhance test automation and QA workflows required.
10. Willingness to participate in a shared on-call rotation for security incidents
11. Coveralls (or equivalent) + GitHub Actions coverage gates preferred.

CORPORATE CORE COMPETENCIES:

1. Drive Action & Results

1. Take on new opportunities with enthusiasm
2. Achieve results even in tough circumstances
3. Take personal accountability for decisions and actions

1. Adapt to Change

1. Operate effectively when things are uncertain
2. Proactively acquire and evaluate information and adapt approach to match shifting demands/situations
3. Rebound from setbacks 

1. Embrace Innovation

1. Create new and better ways to approach challenges and develop solutions 
2. Learn through experimentation
3. Encourage feedback and seek opportunities to work better/smarter/faster
4. Show personal commitment and take action to continuously improve

1. Create Diversity & Foster Collaboration

1. Actively bring, seek, engage, and honor diverse perspectives
2. Identify and address barriers to inclusion to ensure equity and center belonging
3. Work collaboratively and build partnerships to meet shared objectives

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While this is primarily a sedentary role, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is also required to sit, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

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