Job Description

Position Overview

• Right-to-hire opportunity with a major investment firm
• Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite)
• Pay Rate: $50 to $60 per hour on W2
• W2 only. No C2C.

Key Requirements

• Both manual and automated testing experience
• End-to-end testing experience
• Selenium and Playwright with Java
• Test artifact creation, including test case design and execution
• Functional testing with UAT experience
• Full stack testing experience (front end and back end)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts and frameworks for UI, API, and back-end validation using Selenium, Cucumber, and related tools
• Create and execute smoke, functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests across user stories, applications, and release cycles
• Identify gaps, challenge assumptions, and uncover edge cases to improve product quality and risk coverage
• Develop Quality Management plans, test strategies, and test plans, and peer review test cases for each sprint or release
• Partner with Product Owners and development teams to validate requirements, ensure test coverage, and lead defect review discussions
• Maintain requirement traceability, test cases, test sets, defects, and QA status reporting in approved quality tools
• Support non-functional QA phases, including performance, security, and accessibility testing
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD build and deployment pipelines
• Provide guidance on QA strategy, governance, risk management, and best practices across scrum teams
• Stay current with industry trends and test automation best practices

Education and Experience

• B.S./B.A. or M.S./M.A. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience executing and managing all aspects of software testing
• Strong functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing across web and mobile applications
• Experience testing RESTful microservices in cloud-based environments
• Understanding of cloud databases, NoSQL (DynamoDB, Aurora), caching (ElastiCache), and SQL

Technical Qualifications

• Test automation tools: Selenium, TestNG, JMeter, Playwright, Postman, SoapUI, Protractor, Cucumber, TypeScript
• Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid
• Collaboration tools: JIRA, Confluence, MIRO
• REST API automation, Unix, scripting, and reusable, maintainable test scripts
• AWS: Lambda, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Glue, Athena, Parquet file format
• Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline integration (preferred)

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