Quality Assurance Engineering

About the role

About Client: Client is a global financial technology company that provides a wide range of solutions and services to the financial industry. As a leading provider of technology solutions, Client offers a comprehensive suite of products and services designed to facilitate efficient banking operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive digital transformation. Its offerings encompass core banking systems, digital banking platforms, payment processing solutions, risk management tools, and data analytics capabilities.

**Rate: $59/Hr

Job Description:**

• Quality Management Contributor Blueprint
• This blueprint establishes the explicit operational expectations, strategic rationales, and quality compliance guardrails for the Quality Management Contributor role.
• Shifting quality as far left as possible ensures clear direction before development begins, enabling teams to build clean, maintainable, and reliable software from the outset. The Quality Management Contributor serves as a hands-on quality engineering practitioner, mentor, and trusted advisor who works alongside delivery teams to embed quality into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
• The primary responsibility is to actively contribute to engineering excellence by developing automated quality solutions, coaching team members, fostering client confidence through transparency, and helping teams continuously improve their quality engineering capabilities. Shift-Left Quality & Source of Truth
• Given
• Continuous Integration
• When
• Quality gates are passed
• Then
• Working integrated code is the only source of truth
• And
• Design hypotheses are validated Strategic Rationale
• Enforcing quality gates aligns business stakeholders, developers, and testers around a shared understanding of expected system behavior. This alignment reduces ambiguity, minimizes rework, and improves delivery predictability. Operational Expectation
• The Quality Management Contributor ensures that quality gates accurately validate intended behavior and provides feedback when gaps are identified. They support teams in treating successful pipeline execution as the primary indicator of feature readiness. Capability Building & Mentorship
• The contributor shares knowledge on interpreting quality gate results, mentors team members on test design and automation best practices, and helps engineers incorporate validation earlier in the development process. Client Trust & Engagement
• The contributor uses pipeline outcomes and quality metrics to demonstrate objective progress and system stability, helping stakeholders understand how quality is continuously validated throughout delivery. Cloud Test Data Independence
• Given
• Automated Playwright testing
• When
• Data is required for testing
• Then
• Data is included within the Cloud test suite
• And
• Is not dependent on On-Premise data generation
• Then
• The data should be integrated as part of the test suite Strategic Rationale
• Independent cloud-based testing supports rapid delivery cycles and eliminates environmental dependencies that slow development and testing. Operational Expectation
• The Quality Management Contributor develops and maintains self-contained test data solutions within automated test suites and advocates for reducing dependencies on external environments. Capability Building & Mentorship
• The contributor helps teams adopt reusable, cloud-native test data strategies, shares patterns for data seeding and provisioning, and supports other engineers in implementing data-independent testing approaches. Client Trust & Engagement
• The contributor demonstrates how reliable and self-contained testing reduces delivery risk by minimizing dependency on external infrastructure and legacy systems. Client Transparency & Journey Mapping
• Given
• A Continuous Integration suite
• When
• The suite is defined
• Then
• User Journeys or supporting System Journeys are transparent to the client in Azure DevOps Strategic Rationale
• User Journey alignment ensures that automated testing validates functionality that delivers measurable business value. Operational Expectation
• The Quality Management Contributor maps automated tests to defined User Journeys and System Journeys, ensuring traceability and visibility within Azure DevOps. Capability Building & Mentorship
• The contributor facilitates discussions with developers, product owners, and quality partners to translate requirements into meaningful automated validation aligned with business outcomes. Client Trust & Engagement
• The contributor promotes transparency by helping clients understand exactly how business scenarios are represented and validated within the automation framework. Ubiquitous Business Language Alignment
• Given
• A Continuous Integration suite, User Journey, or System Journey
• When
• The suite is defined
• Then
• The suite is readable using ubiquitous business terminology
• And
• Understandable to business, product, engineering, architecture, and quality stakeholders Strategic Rationale
• A common language bridges the gap between technical implementation and business intent. Operational Expectation
• The Quality Management Contributor develops and maintains test specifications that serve as living documentation and are understandable across technical and non-technical audiences. Capability Building & Mentorship
• The contributor partners with product owners and engineers to improve the clarity and consistency of acceptance criteria and BDD scenarios, helping teams strengthen requirements quality. Client Trust & Engagement
• The contributor uses business-readable automation artifacts to ensure stakeholders understand how requirements are being validated. Automated Execution Transparency
• Given
• Continuous Integration testing passes or fails
• When
• Automation executes
• Then
• Results are transparent to the client in Azure DevOps
• Strategic Rationale
• Visible quality feedback improves trust and enables rapid response to issues. Operational Expectation
• The Quality Management Contributor ensures automated execution artifacts such as reports, screenshots, logs, and dashboards are available and actionable for delivery teams and stakeholders. Capability Building & Mentorship
• The contributor works with engineers to improve pipeline observability, reporting capabilities, and automated feedback mechanisms. Client Trust & Engagement
• The contributor supports transparent reporting practices and helps stakeholders understand both successes and failures within the delivery process. Decoupled Component Isolation in DEV
• Given
• Application component testing
• When
• Code is checked into Development
• Then
• Application acceptance criteria are self-contained to the application domain
• And
• Decoupled from other applications Strategic Rationale
• Testing components in isolation provides rapid feedback, simplifies troubleshooting, and reduces dependency-related failures. Operational Expectation
• The Quality Management Contributor develops and maintains component-level validation strategies that prioritize isolation through mocks, stubs, and virtualization. Capability Building & Mentorship
• The contributor shares expertise on testable architecture patterns, dependency isolation techniques, and modern automated testing practices. Client Trust & Engagement
• The contributor helps demonstrate how isolated testing enables faster and more reliable delivery while reducing integration-related delays. Contract Testing & Service Virtualization Guardrails
• Given
• Application component testing
• When
• Code is checked into Development and an API contract agreement is broken
• Then
• The check-in should be blocked
• Strategic Rationale
• API contracts protect system boundaries and provide confidence that independently developed services remain compatible. Operational Expectation
• The Quality Management Contributor implements and maintains contract validation suites and works with delivery teams to ensure contract failures are identified and resolved before integration. Capability Building & Mentorship
• The contributor shares expertise on contract testing frameworks, service virtualization practices, and integration quality strategies. Client Trust & Engagement
• The contributor helps communicate how system contracts provide predictable interactions between services and reduce the risk of unexpected production failures. Strategic Rationale
• Component-level testing and integration-level testing serve different purposes. Proper separation maximizes test effectiveness while minimizing execution costs and maintenance efforts. Operational Expectation
• The Quality Management Contributor collaborates with teams to identify redundant testing, improve suite efficiency, and ensure validation occurs at the most appropriate level.
• Capability Building & Mentorship
• The contributor helps engineers understand test pyramid principles, appropriate test placement, and end-to-end validation strategies across microservice ecosystems.
• Client Trust & Engagement
• The contributor demonstrates a disciplined testing approach that balances comprehensive coverage with efficient execution, helping stakeholders understand how quality investments are optimized.
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• Role Summary
• The Quality Management Contributor is a hands-on quality engineering practitioner who drives quality through influence, expertise, automation, and collaboration.
• Rather than functioning as a governance authority, the contributor enables teams to adopt sustainable quality practices, continuously improve engineering capabilities, and deliver reliable software with confidence.
• Success is measured through team enablement, automation effectiveness, quality outcomes, and stakeholder trust.

Non-benefitted (other than those mandated under state or federal law).Please note that this position does not include paid time off benefits. ApTask offers subsidized insurance coverage to our employees.

About ApTask: ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-owned company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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