Senior QA Engineer

Senior QA Engineer

McLaren Strategic Solutions is looking for a highly skilled Automation Test Engineer to support a cutting-edge GenAI-powered QE Automation Solution.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Playwright, Gherkin-based test design, GenAI integration, and full-stack application testing. This role will contribute to automating test generation, enhancing reusability, and supporting intelligent documentation and artifact creation.

Responsibilities

• Design and generate automated test cases and test data in JSON format.
• Develop robust Playwright automation scripts for front-end and backend validation.
• Convert functional inputs and business rules into .feature files using Gherkin syntax.
• Implement Scenario Outlines with Examples for scalable, data-driven BDD testing.
• Use LLM-based detection to identify and reuse step definitions and automation components.
• Identify and document missing automation components to enhance the framework.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate test automation within a full-stack environment (React, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB/Node).
• Work within a Python 3.11+ environment for automation orchestration and tooling.

Requirements

• 5 years of automation testing experience
• 5 years of test automation experience with Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• 5 years of software engineering experience using Python.
• Gherkin/Cucumber BDD test case development.
• Experience with JSON-based test data generation and API interactions.
• Familiarity with LLM-based tools and GenAI-powered testing strategies.
• Understanding of software architecture across front-end (React), back-end (Ruby on Rails), and databases (MongoDB/Node).

Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development.

DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.

DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.