Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer, Officer

State Street•Irvine, CA

1d•$75,000 - $123,750•Hybrid

About The Position

State Street is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer with 5+ years of software quality assurance experience, preferably in financial services. The role requires strong financial-services domain knowledge, a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), and hands-on experience with functional testing, test-case management, defect management, and release validation. The successful candidate will understand complex financial workflows, validate requirements and acceptance criteria, and test nightly financial batch cycles and scheduled jobs. The role also involves working directly with business users to clarify requirements, investigate issues, support UAT, and validate business outcomes. The Senior QA Engineer owns end-to-end QA activities and quality strategy, including functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing. The role establishes and maintains traceability across requirements, test cases, results, defects, and evidence; evaluates business-critical scenarios and release risks; and reports testing status and release readiness. The position also includes mentoring junior QA team members and applying modern QA practices and AI-assisted technologies where appropriate. The position is onsite in the office four days a week and remote one day a week, with standard business hours aligned to project and stakeholder needs (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). The stated annual salary range is $75,000–$123,750, applicable to the specified location; the range may differ for other locations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field.
5+ years of hands-on QA/testing experience, preferably within financial services.
Strong financial-services domain knowledge, including experience with financial applications, transactions, data flows, nightly batch cycles, scheduled jobs, business processes, and system integrations.
Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, QA processes, release management, and the software testing lifecycle.
Experience creating, managing, and executing detailed functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test cases, including requirements-to-test traceability and test evidence.
Hands-on experience with test and defect-management tools such as JIRA and XRAY, including creating detailed defects and working with development and business teams through resolution.
Knowledge of modern QA and AI technologies, including AI-assisted tools for requirements analysis, test-case development, defect analysis, test-data analysis, documentation, and improving QA effectiveness.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify gaps in requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, and testing coverage.
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple testing activities across projects and releases.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively with technical teams and business users.
Quality-focused mindset with ownership, accountability, and follow-through.
Ability to work onsite four days a week and remotely one day a week.
Availability during standard business hours aligned to project and stakeholder needs (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.).

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end QA activities, including functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
Review business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure they are clear, complete, testable, and aligned with expected business outcomes.
Create, maintain, and execute detailed test scenarios and test cases covering positive, negative, boundary, exception, and business-critical scenarios.
Maintain traceability among requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, test results, defects, and supporting test evidence.
Identify, document, and manage defects through closure, including reproduction steps, expected and actual results, severity, priority, screenshots, logs, and business impact.
Validate financial-services workflows, business rules, data, interfaces, reports, integrations, nightly batch cycles, scheduled jobs, dependencies, and processing results.
Work with business users, business analysts, product owners, and subject-matter experts to understand processes, clarify requirements, support UAT, investigate issues, and confirm business expectations are met.
Support release cycles, regression testing, UAT, production readiness, and post-release validation; report on test coverage, defects, risks, and release readiness.
Apply modern QA practices and AI-assisted technologies where appropriate to improve requirements analysis, test-case development, defect analysis, test coverage, documentation quality, and QA efficiency.
Own and drive the overall quality strategy and functional testing approach.
Review test coverage, nightly processing results, open defects, and business-critical scenarios to identify gaps before release signoff.
Drive QA standards and best practices for test-case documentation, defect quality, test evidence, traceability, and release reporting.
Mentor and guide junior QA team members and help establish consistent QA practices across the team.
Work with business and technology stakeholders to assess testing status, open risks, defects, business impact, and overall release readiness.

Benefits

Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
Access to the Employee Assistance Program.
Eligibility for annual performance-based incentive awards, excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans.
Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
Inclusive development opportunities.
Flexible work-life support.
Paid volunteer days.
Employee networks.