QA Engineer, Associate (NYC)

Alchelyst•New York, NY

8d•$100,000 - $135,000•Onsite

About The Position

This role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of applications through comprehensive testing strategies. The QA Engineer will be responsible for designing, creating, maintaining, and executing test cases, performing various types of testing, and collaborating with development and business teams throughout the software development lifecycle. A key aspect of this role is building and maintaining automated regression coverage and integrating it into CI/CD pipelines. The position requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively in a distributed team environment across different time zones.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance / Software Testing
Strong experience in manual testing, structured test-case design, and risk-based coverage
Hands-on experience testing enterprise web applications, workflow platforms, or case-management solutions
Experience with API, integration, and end-to-end testing across multiple systems
Hands-on test automation experience with Playwright, Selenium, pytest, or comparable frameworks
Working knowledge of TypeScript and/or Python for test automation
Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments and participating throughout the software-development lifecycle
Proficiency with Jira or a comparable defect and test-management tool
Ability to work closely with product, developers, business users, vendors, and distributed teams
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
Ability to work during US business hours and collaborate with teams across US, UK/EU, and India time zones

Nice To Haves

Experience in financial services, fintech, private markets, investor servicing, or wealth-management platforms
Experience testing investor onboarding, client servicing, KYC/AML, document, subscription, or portal workflows
Experience testing Salesforce Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Email-to-Case, case-routing, or queue-management capabilities
Experience with Snowflake, Jitterbit or comparable middleware, ETL/data pipelines, and data-reconciliation testing
Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, pytest-bdd, or Playwright-BDD
Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Test Plans, and CI/CD quality gates
Experience with performance, accessibility, security, or cross-browser testing
Experience working with distributed global teams and external delivery partners

Responsibilities

Design, create, maintain, and execute test cases based on user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data dictionaries, and integration specifications
Perform functional, regression, exploratory, integration, end-to-end, and UAT-readiness testing across multiple concurrent workstreams
Validate case-management journeys across different user roles, business scenarios, routing paths, and exception conditions
Test role-based access, permissions, entitlements, field visibility, data security, auditability, and operational controls
Perform API and service-layer testing using tools such as Postman and automated API frameworks
Use SQL and available reporting/data tools to verify back-end processing, data transformations, and cross-system consistency
Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects in Jira, and work closely with developers to validate fixes and prevent regression
Participate in requirement walkthroughs, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, defect triage, and release-readiness reviews
Collaborate with Product and business stakeholders to identify requirement gaps, testability concerns, and operational risks early
Build and maintain automated regression coverage using Playwright and supporting TypeScript and/or Python-based frameworks
Integrate high-value automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and provide clear, repeatable test results
Support test-data preparation, environment validation, smoke testing, and coordinated testing across development, test, UAT, demo, and production-support environments
Provide concise reporting on test progress, defects, risks, dependencies, and release recommendations
Cross-train across multiple platforms to provide resilient QA coverage and reduce single points of dependency