Director, QA Engineer

Morgan Stanley • Edison, NJ

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Director, QA Engineer in Alpharetta, Georgia. The role analyzes functional requirements and designs test strategies and documentation, including requirements traceability matrices. It works with Business partners to develop test plans and scripts, plans test data, and prioritizes scripts to ensure critical application components are covered.

The position builds scalable automation across UI, API, integration, and event-driven layers, and reviews and optimizes scripts for stability, reusability, and maintainability. It embeds automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines, performs log analysis and monitoring, and engineers quality for distributed systems, microservices, and high-availability platforms. The role also uses AI/GenAI to accelerate test design, automation development, evaluation, and debugging, and applies Spec Driven Development to align specifications, implementation, and validation.

Responsibilities include release-readiness validation and certification of new functionality, validating BPM workflows and integration points, owning end-to-end production quality, triaging incidents, and conducting root-cause analysis of production defects with evidence and preventive actions. Telecommuting is permitted up to one day per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (any), Computer Science, or a related field of study.
• Five years of experience in the position offered, or five years as an Associate, Programmer Analyst, or in a closely related occupation.
• Five years of experience with Java, Python, and TypeScript.
• Five years of experience with Selenium and Playwright.
• Five years of experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Five years of experience with TestNG, Cucumber, Jenkins, Git, and Bitbucket.
• Five years of experience with Control-M batch processing, Unix, MySQL, and Kibana.
• Five years of experience with Kafka, API Soap UI, and Postman.
• Five years of experience with Business Process Management (BPM), integration testing, production validation, production issue investigation, root-cause analysis, and release management.

Responsibilities

• Analyze functional requirements and design test strategies and documents, including requirements traceability matrices.
• Work with Business partners to develop test plans and test scripts.
• Plan required test data and prioritize test scripts to cover critical application components.
• Build scalable automation across UI, API, integration, and event-driven layers; review, refactor, and optimize scripts for stability, reusability, and maintainability.
• Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and perform log analysis and monitoring using tools such as Kibana.
• Engineer quality for distributed systems, microservices, and high-availability platforms.
• Leverage AI/GenAI to accelerate test design, automation development, evaluation, and debugging.
• Practice Spec Driven Development to align specifications, implementation, and validation.
• Perform release-readiness validation from a quality engineering perspective and certify new functionality for deployment.
• Validate BPM workflows to ensure process logic and integration points meet functional requirements.
• Own end-to-end production quality, including release certification and incident triage.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for production defects, capture evidence, and implement preventive actions.

Benefits

• The company describes its employee benefits and perks as among the most attractive and comprehensive in the industry, without specifying individual benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director