Senior Staff - Quality Assurance Engineer at Bread Financial in Columbus, OH

Job description

Every career journey is personal. That's why we empower you with the tools and support to create your own success story. Be challenged. Be heard. Be valued. Be you ... be here. Job Summary The Senior Staff Quality Assurance Engineer defines and drives enterprise-wide quality engineering strategy, influencing architecture standards, and long-term innovation across platforms and domains. Serves as a recognized subject matter expert, shaping future-state testing capabilities, advancing engineering excellence, and advising senior leadership on quality risks, investments, and strategic direction. Leads large-scale cross-functional initiatives to transform automation, scalability, and reliability across the organization. Experienced with Cypress, Playwright, JavaScript or TypeScript. Essential Job Functions Establishes long-term quality engineering vision and enterprise automation strategy across platforms. Drives next-generation framework architecture, introduces emerging technologies, and ensures scalability, maintainability, and extensibility of automation ecosystems across web, API, and data layers. - (30%) Champions enterprise quality standards, governance, and best practices across engineering teams. Drives consistency in automation frameworks, test data strategy, and quality metrics. Leads large-scale initiatives to modernize testing capabilities, improve efficiency, and elevate engineering maturity. - (25%) Partners with senior and executive leadership to define quality goals, assess risk, and inform investment decisions. Provides data-driven insights on quality trends, system health, and release readiness. Influences roadmaps by aligning quality strategy with business and technology priorities. - (20%) Identifies and implements innovative approaches to testing, including advanced automation techniques, performance optimization, and quality engineering practices. Promotes adoption of modern testing methodologies (e.g., shift-left, TDD/BDD evolution, CI/CD integration) across teams. - (15%) Serves as a technical leader and mentor to Staff and senior engineers. Elevates organizational capability through coaching, knowledge sharing, and establishing communities of practice. Represents QA engineering in enterprise forums and contributes to long-term talent and capability development. - (10%) Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Information Technology or related field of study or equivalent, relevant work experience 1 cloud certification- AWS cloud practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or Google Cloud- Cloud Digital Leader 10-13 years domain experience in quality engineering, test automation, or software engineering Preferred Qualifications Master’s Degree Computer Science, Information Technology or related field of study or equivalent, relevant work experience Experience with Playwright, Cypress, JavaScript or Typescript STQB (Advanced or Expert level), Certified Agile Tester (CAT) or Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) 13-15 years quality engineering or automation experience in complex, enterprise environments Demonstrated experience shaping enterprise QA strategy and leading transformation initiatives Skills Playwright JavaScript Cypress.Io Git API Testing Accessibility Testing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Structured Query Language (SQL) Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) Test Driven Development (TDD) Reports To : Director and above Direct Reports : 0 Work Environment Normal office environment. (Remote or Hybrid), 3 to 4 days per month are expected in office if within 60 miles of a posted Bread Financial location. Other Duties This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time. Salary Range (unless oth