Quality Engineer Lead - Local to Pittsburgh, PA

Category: Testing/Quality Assurance

Main location: United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

Position ID:J0626-1593

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

This role must be filled at the client site 5 days per week in Pittsburgh PA.

As a Test Automation Lead Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring robust regression coverage while driving automation excellence across applications. This role blends hands on automation, manual validation, and team leadership, offering the opportunity to influence testing strategy and mentor a small offshore team. If you thrive in fast paced environments and enjoy building scalable testing solutions in the banking domain, this role is for you.

Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Define and implement test strategy, test plans, and quality gates for releases
• Design and execute manual, functional, regression, and end to end testing
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks across API and UI layers
• Perform API validation including request/response, authentication, and data integrity
• Build and execute UI automation tests using modern frameworks
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing
• Perform defect analysis, root cause analysis, and quality reporting
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure early quality involvement (shift left)
• Mentor team members and promote quality engineering best practices

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• 5+ years of experience in manual Testing
• Strong knowledge of SDLC/STLC and Agile methodologies
• Expertise in test case design, execution, and defect management
• Experience in end to end and exploratory testing
API Testing & Automation
• Experience with tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent
• Knowledge of JSON/XML validation and database validation (SQL)
• Karate experience preferred
UI Automation
• Hands on experience with Selenium / Playwright / Cypress
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or equivalent
Tools & Technology
• CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
• Test management and defect tracking tools (JIRA, XRAY or similar)
• AI experience a plus

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $89,600.00 $176,300.00.

CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well-being programs

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Skills:

• English
• Full Stack Development
• Full Stack Development
• Java
• Microservices
• Middleware
• Oracle
• Spring Boot