Quality Assurance Engineer

Farmers and Merchants Bank of Long Beach•Seal Beach, CA

About The Position

The QA Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and regulatory compliance of banking applications through comprehensive functional testing, test automation, and defect management practices. This role supports web, API, and data‑driven systems and works closely with product, development, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver secure and high‑quality financial solutions.

Requirements

Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills
Solid understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Agile methodologies
Test Management: Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail, or similar
Defect Tracking: Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent
Automation: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar
API Testing: Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI
Data Testing: SQL, database validation, data reconciliation
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Git, Jenkins (or equivalent)
Web applications (modern browsers)
RESTful APIs
Relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
On Premises plus Cloud‑based environments (Azure/AWS preferred)
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of QA experience with strong emphasis on functional testing.
Experience in banking, payments, lending, or risk systems.
Hands‑on experience with manual and automated testing.
Strong experience in defect management and test lifecycle management.

Nice To Haves

Experience testing financial or regulated systems is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Analyze business and technical requirements to develop detailed test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
Perform functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) for banking applications.
Validate end‑to-end business workflows including customer onboarding, payments, lending, and reporting.
Ensure testing aligns with banking regulations, data privacy, and security standards.
Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for web and API applications.
Contribute to automation frameworks and improve test coverage across releases.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
Execute automated regression suites and analyze results.
Log, track, prioritize, and manage defects through their lifecycle using defect management tools.
Perform root cause analysis and work closely with developers to ensure timely resolution.
Provide clear defect documentation including steps to reproduce, evidence, and impact assessment.
Monitor defect trends and report quality metrics to leadership.
Test web applications across supported browsers and devices.
Perform API testing using modern tools to validate request/response, data integrity, and error handling.
Execute data testing to validate data accuracy, transformations, reconciliations, and reporting.
Validate backend systems and integrations with third‑party vendors.
Collaborate with product owners, developers, and business analysts in Agile/Scrum teams.
Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
Provide regular test status, risk assessment, and release readiness reports.
Support production validation and post‑release verification activities.
Complies with all State and Federal Banking regulatory requirements, including but not limited to: BSA, Anti-Money Laundering OFAC, CIP, Financial Elder Abuse Reporting, Sexual Harassment, Information Security and privacy requirements.
This position will elevate suspicious activity to supervisory staff and/or BSA department.
Completes compliance and other technical training workshops as assigned.