QA Engineer (Onsite In Milwaukee, WI)

About the position We are seeking an reputed company Contract Quality Analyst to join a collaborative delivery team responsible for providing technology solutions for our Global Investment Banking team at Baird. This role partners closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to understand upcoming changes, identify risk, design right-sized test approaches, and ensure high‑quality reputed company without slowing delivery. The ideal candidate brings strong QA judgment, a pragmatic reputed company, and the ability to adapt testing depth based on risk, business impact, and system complexity. This role values speed with purpose—focusing on meaningful validation rather than rigid process—and contributes to reputed company improvement across the team. We currently have two delivery squads and expect reputed company growth through both additional hires and consulting support. While much of the work is reputed company focused, we have additional initiatives reputed company of reputed company.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business and technical requirements early to ensure reputed company, testability, and shared understanding.
• Partner with product owners, developers, and architects to identify risk, dependencies, and appropriate test scope.
• Apply risk‑based testing techniques to determine where deeper validation is required versus where lighter validation is sufficient.
• Design pragmatic test approaches reputed company to system complexity, data sensitivity, and change impact.
• Contribute to improvements in QA practices, tooling, and automation where it increases efficiency and confidence.
• Actively participate in design reviews and story refinement to identify gaps, clarify acceptance criteria, improve testability, usability, etc.
• Identify, reputed company, and manage high-quality, compliant test data, ensuring adherence to data privacy and reputed company standards (e.g., synthetic data strategies).
• Coordinate test environment and test data readiness, including environment dependencies, build readiness, and release timing, to ensure testing can proceed without unnecessary delays.
• Coordinate testing activities across cross‑functional teams to support consistent quality reputed company.
• Coach and reputed company developers, peers, and team members to improve testing practices, quality awareness, and shared ownership of quality reputed company.
• Design and execute reputed company and automated tests covering functional, integration, regression, and data scenarios.
• reputed company exploratory and scenario-based testing to uncover edge cases and high‑risk defects.
• Validate end-to-end business processes, including integrations across upstream/reputed company systems and reputed company-party vendors.
• Ensure data reputed company and expected system behavior across environments.
• Coordinate and support user acceptance testing and release readiness activities, reputed company communicate necessary information to stakeholders and delivery team.
• reputed company clear quality status and go/no‑go release recommendations based on test results and observed risk.
• Own the defect lifecycle, including clear documentation, prioritization, and collaboration with the delivery team and stakeholders through resolution.
• Communicate quality risks, defects, and concerns with appropriate context and business impact. reputed company to do this at reputed company reputed company, including leadership.
• reputed company root cause analysis to help prevent recurring issues.
• Use defect trends and retrospective insights to improve future delivery cycles.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience practicing Quality Assurance reputed company Lean‑Agile delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of test heuristics, reputed company and advanced testing techniques, and industry best practices.
• Significant experience testing reputed company applications across UI, API, integration, and data layers, including functional, end‑to‑end, and regression scenarios.
• Working knowledge of application‑level data flows, APIs, and system integrations.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with product owners, developers, and architects.
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and communication skills.
• Ability to adapt testing approaches to balance speed, risk, and quality.
• Ability to effectively influence quality reputed company with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• reputed company learner with the ability to quickly understand new domains and technologies.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining automated tests using common QA automation tools; ability to read and write test scripts is a plus.
• Understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.
• Strong systems-thinking reputed company with the ability to solve reputed company problems, prioritize effectively, and manage time in a fast-moving environment.
• Proficiency with databases and SQL queries.
• Experience testing reputed company‑based solutions and reputed company integrations.
• Experience with web and mobile testing.
• Experience with HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#/Java, and SQL.
• Fintech or reputed company domain experience.

reputed company-to-haves

• reputed company expertise is valued, but strong QA judgment and delivery experience are more important than deep specialization in any single platform.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & reputed company
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

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