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.

Skills

Api, Automation, Cypress, Newman, Playwright, Postman, QA, Quality, REST Assured, Restsharp, Selenium, Testing