Senior QA Analyst

You will own quality for the Paragon platform as the Senior QA voice on the delivery team. The focus is API and service-level testing, with additional work across UI, integration, end-to-end, ETL/data validation, and performance testing. You will build automation frameworks from scratch, set quality gates in CI/CD, and work directly with engineering and business stakeholders, including U. S. -based teams.

Responsibilities:

• Build frameworks from scratch: Choose tools, define architecture and coding standards, and set up reporting, logging, configuration, test data management, and parallel execution.
• Own API testing and automation: Cover REST APIs for functional, integration, regression, negative, authorization, boundary, contract, and end-to-end scenarios. Validate status codes, headers, auth, payloads, JSON/XML schemas, pagination, idempotency, and business rules.
• Automate UI regression: Build stable, low-flake suites using reusable page/component objects.
• Integrate with CI/CD: Run automation in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins with visible results and quality gates.
• Test performance: Design and run load, stress, soak, and spike tests, set baselines, and report actionable findings.
• Test ETL and data pipelines: Validate data extraction, transformation, and loading end-to-end.
• Use SQL and automated checks to verify data integrity, source-to-target reconciliation, deduplication, entity matching, and confidence scoring.
• Drive quality strategy: Prioritize automation by risk and business impact, log defects with clear evidence and root cause, and give release-readiness recommendations.
• Lead technically: Take part in refinement, estimation, design discussions, defect triage, and code reviews, and mentor other QA engineers.

Requirements:

• 7+ years in software quality engineering, with 4+ years in hands-on automation and framework development.
• Strong API automation experience with Postman/Newman, REST Assured, Python Requests, RestSharp, Playwright API, or similar.
• Proven record of building an automation framework from scratch (architecture, reusable components, config, test data, reporting, parallel execution, CI/CD).
• Strong programming in at least one of Python, C#, Java, TypeScript, or JavaScript, with production-quality code and confident code reviews.
• Hands-on UI automation with Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium, including reducing flakiness.
• Hands-on ETL testing experience, including source-to-target validation and data quality checks.
• Solid SQL (joins, aggregates, subqueries, reconciliation queries).
• CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Strong Git skills (branching, pull requests, merge/rebase).
• Hands-on performance testing with K6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust, or Azure Load Testing.
• Strong test design, debugging, and troubleshooting across APIs, UI, databases, and pipelines.
• Agile experience as a senior QA/automation engineer.
• Excellent written and spoken English for working with U. S. -based stakeholders.

Good to have:

• Domain experience in insurance claims.
• Knowledge of HIPAA and handling protected health information (PHI) in test environments.
• Ability to take an application with little or no automation and independently set up its test architecture, coverage, and pipeline.