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This role is responsible for leading quality assurance activities across multiple products and initiatives, ensuring software solutions meet functional, performance, reliability, and customer expectations.\nThe Senior QA Engineer / Analyst serves as a quality leader within Agile delivery teams and is expected to work independently while partnering closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and DevOps teams. 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teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.\nIdentify opportunities to increase testing efficiency through automation and tooling.\nCollaboration & Mentorship\nPartner with engineering, product, architecture, and operations teams throughout project lifecycles.\nParticipate in Agile ceremonies including planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.\nProvide guidance and mentoring to QA Engineers / Analysts and junior team members.\nPromote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.\n5+ years of software quality assurance, software testing, or quality engineering experience.\nEmbraces an AI-First mentality when it comes to software testing\nStrong understanding of Agile development methodologies and software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes.\nExperience developing 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