Quality Engineer Lead - Local to Pittsburgh, PA

CGI•Pittsburgh, PA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This role must be filled at the client site 5 days per week in Pittsburgh PA. As a Test Automation Lead Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring robust regression coverage while driving automation excellence across applications. This role blends hands on automation, manual validation, and team leadership, offering the opportunity to influence testing strategy and mentor a small offshore team. If you thrive in fast paced environments and enjoy building scalable testing solutions in the banking domain, this role is for you.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in manual Testing
Strong knowledge of SDLC/STLC and Agile methodologies
Expertise in test case design, execution, and defect management
Experience in end to end and exploratory testing
API Testing & Automation Experience with tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent
Knowledge of JSON/XML validation and database validation (SQL)
Hands on experience with Selenium / Playwright / Cypress
Proficiency in Java, Python, or equivalent
CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
Test management and defect tracking tools (JIRA, XRAY or similar)

Nice To Haves

Karate experience preferred
AI experience a plus

Responsibilities

Define and implement test strategy, test plans, and quality gates for releases
Design and execute manual, functional, regression, and end to end testing
Develop and maintain automation frameworks across API and UI layers
Perform API validation including request/response, authentication, and data integrity
Build and execute UI automation tests using modern frameworks
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing
Perform defect analysis, root cause analysis, and quality reporting
Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure early quality involvement (shift left)
Mentor team members and promote quality engineering best practices