Reporting to our Quality Assurance Manager, the Lead Quality Assurance Automation Engineer (aka Quality Assurance Automation Engineer IV) will be supporting project delivery teams within the fast-paced QA Automation team. We operate very quickly and time to market is imperative. This hands-on leadership position is responsible for planning, implementing, leading, and executing all aspects of Quality and Testing. The Lead Quality Assurance Automation Engineer will support the software development life cycle from requirements gathering, technical design, change management, unit testing, user acceptance testing, and automated regression testing through production release. This position is based at our Administrative Office (HQ) in Irving (Las Colinas), Texas.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
Compensation
Benefits
Founded in 1996, Cottonwood Financial is one of the largest privately held retail consumer finance companies in the United States. Headquartered in Irving (Las Colinas), Texas, we have 275+ company-owned locations, under our Cash Store brand, across the country. Through this national brick-and-mortar footprint, we provide best-in-class customer service and offer an innovative mix of financial products and services to our customers. We are profitable, have a healthy balance sheet, and are positioned to grow.
We have been named multiple times to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, as well as to the Dallas 100 list of the fastest-growing private companies in North Texas.
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Acceptance Testing
Performance Testing
Regression Testing
Test Data
Key Responsibilities
- Provide mentoring and guidance to other members of the Test Automation team and Manual QA teams
- Analyze requirements and decompose them into test scenarios
- Conduct bug triage meetings and track QA, UAT, and Production bugs to closure
- Establish and evolve formal QA processes and procedures across all projects and teams
- Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
- Act as the key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally
- Identify Test environment requirements for both QA and UAT and a handoff to UAT
- Lead QA team members, as well as oversee outside contract testers at onsite and offshore working across multiple agile sprint teams
- Create, maintain, and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases against our software platforms based on an analysis of requirements, user stories, use cases, and technical design specifications
- Identify / Setup test data required to complete test execution
- Collaborate with product and integration development teams to enhance knowledge of business systems to better contribute to the functional and regression testing suites and accompanying automation team
- Provide daily progress report and test results to effectively communicate software test results & bugs to invested stakeholders
- Develop a deep understanding of business processes and integration points to provide a more robust end to end testing
- Work with team leadership to develop test schedules and tasks to deliver high-quality products
- Create Requirements Traceability Matrix and Test Summary reports once testing is completed
- Foster a collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent Military/other experience
- At least 7 years of work experience including all aspects of IT Quality Assurance in testing websites, web services (REST/SOAP), microsites, mobile apps, desktop applications, SQL, BI, and reports for custom-built systems
- At least 5 years of work experience using any standard test management tool like TFS or Azure DevOps or ALM or Jira or any other tool for creating and maintaining test artifacts
- At least 3 years of working experience with test automation tool (Test Complete or UFT or QTP or Selenium or any similar tool) and automation framework design and script development
- At least 1 year of experience in writing and executing SQL (T-SQL) queries
- Experience in system testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, cross-browser testing, and mobile device compatibility testing
- Experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures for front-end and back-end manual testing, test automation tools & framework, security testing, and performance testing
- Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate with all levels within the organization
- Local (Dallas/Fort Worth area) candidates only – no relocation
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship and not require sponsorship in the future
Preferred Qualifications
- Any QA testing certification (like ISTBQ / CSTE), or project management certification is a plus
- Experience in the finance or banking domain is ideal
- Familiarity with Visual Studio
- Experience working in cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience with TFS Version control system, Git version control system, Test Explorer, or Azure DevOps
- Agile methodology experience (Agile, Scrum, SAFe, etc.)
- Experience with Performance testing and Security testing is preferred
Compensation
- Annual salary of $107,400
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision
- Voluntary life/ AD&D
- Short-term & long-term disability
- 401K with company match
- Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Paid maternity, paternity, bereavement, extended medical leave, and jury duty
- Corporate discount program on “personal cell phone accounts” with select providers
- Corporate discount program on Microsoft 365 “Home Use Program”
- Business casual work environment
Founded in 1996, Cottonwood Financial is one of the largest privately held retail consumer finance companies in the United States. Headquartered in Irving (Las Colinas), Texas, we have 275+ company-owned locations, under our Cash Store brand, across the country. Through this national brick-and-mortar footprint, we provide best-in-class customer service and offer an innovative mix of financial products and services to our customers. We are profitable, have a healthy balance sheet, and are positioned to grow.
We have been named multiple times to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, as well as to the Dallas 100 list of the fastest-growing private companies in North Texas.
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