Senior Quality Engineer

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you'll be responsible for functional and automation testing of NJM’s business applications. This role is expected to actively leverage Generative AI and AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance test design, automation development, defect analysis, test data generation, and overall software quality delivery.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to effectively combine quality engineering expertise with AI-enabled productivity and automation capabilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work in an agile, small team environment with a focus on speed and quality
• Contribute to test planning efforts and development of comprehensive test strategies by applying right testing techniques.
• Design, develop, and maintain complex, reusable test automation scripts to enable faster regression/delivery cycles.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on quality objectives, requirements and contribute to delivering business value Incrementally.
• Perform manual and automated testing to ensure alignment with software requirements, risk assessments, and quality standards
• Perform backend validation, webservices, and API testing using appropriate tools
• Identify system dependencies, test environments, integrations, tools and utilities needed for testing based on release/sprint goals.
• Review Automation test coverage and plan to increase/maintain coverage as enhancements are being implemented in each release.
• Use AI tools to automate repetitive quality engineering tasks, including test documentation, test maintenance, defect categorization, regression impact analysis, and release readiness assessments.
• Develop and refine effective prompts and workflows that maximize the quality, accuracy, and consistency of AI-generated testing artifacts and automation assets.
• Integrate AI-enabled capabilities into Quality Engineering processes to improve productivity, reduce manual effort, and increase software delivery velocity.
• Leverage AI-powered coding assistants to design, develop, maintain, and optimize automated test scripts, frameworks, and supporting utilities
• Use AI-powered tools to assist in generating and maintaining API tests, UI automation tests, service virtualization assets, and regression test suites.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in software delivery, including 5+ years in Quality Engineering, QA, software testing, or test automation.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience in software engineering with hand-on coding proficiency in any language such as Java, Python, C# or JavaScript.
• Proven experience in building and driving an automation-first testing strategy, with ability to implement automated solutions across the software delivery life cycle.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Generative AI and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software testing and quality engineering outcomes
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar tools.
• Strong expertise in SQL, API testing, and backend/system validation.
• Hands-on experience using AI-enabled tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar platforms to accelerate test design, test automation development, test data creation, and defect analysis
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in P&C Insurance Domain
• Experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite
• Experience implementing AI-assisted test automation solutions and intelligent test generation techniques

Compensation: Salary is commensurate with experience and credentials.

Pay Range: $100,402-$116,574