Sr. QA Test Engineer (Quality Assurance)

About Huron Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with organizations to solve complex challenges and achieve ambitious goals. We help clients improve performance, accelerate transformation, and unlock new opportunities for growth through deep industry expertise, innovative thinking, and practical execution. By embracing diverse perspectives, encouraging new ideas, and challenging the status quo, we create sustainable results that empower organizations and their people to own the future. Learn more at huronconsultinggroup.com.

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huronconsultinggroup.com

5,001-10,000 employees

Business Consulting and Services

Chicago, IL

2002

Public Company

285k LinkedIn followers

• Own and execute manual and automated testing activities across the complete software development lifecycle, ensuring releases meet quality objectives and timelines.
• Design, develop, execute, and performance test scripts using JMeter, including workload modeling, test execution, results analysis, and performance reporting.
• Analyze test and performance results, troubleshoot issues, perform root-cause analysis, and work closely with development teams to drive defects through resolution.
• Develop and maintain UI automation using Selenium with Java, creating reliable and reusable automation scripts for functional and regression testing.
• Review technical design documents and participate in design and architecture discussions, providing QA perspectives on testability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Estimate QA effort for user stories and defects and develop test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
• Generate and maintain appropriate test data to address testing requirements and data gaps.
• Perform database validation using SQL queries and validate data integrity across application and backend systems.
• Conduct performance testing to identify performance bottlenecks, capacity limitations, scalability concerns, potential performance debt, communicate performance issues to engineering teams.
• Identify and communicate release risks, quality concerns, and potential production-impacting issues to QA and project leadership.
• Participate in bug scrub meetings, release readiness discussion.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, techniques, and automation approaches to improve testing efficiency and product quality.
• Review QA deliverables and provide technical guidance and feedback to other QA team members.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and QA teams members to ensure requirements are testable and comprehensive test coverage is achieved.
• Support QA/UAT/PROD environments and understand the build and deployment process.
• Support test execution during release cycles and provide quality status, risks, and defect updates to stakeholders.
• Ensure testing activities align with Huron’s quality standards and contribute to delivering a reliable, usable, and high-performing product.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA practices, automation frameworks, performance testing capabilities, and release processes.

Required

• 5+ years of professional QA/Test Engineering experience with strong experience in both manual and automation testing.
• Good understanding of SQL and database validation.
• Familiar with AWS services: CloudWatch, EventBridge, QuickSight, Batch Jobs, Lambda, S3, Redshift, Glue, Bedrock.
• Strong hands-on experience with Performance Testing using JMeter
• Demonstrated ability to develop, execute, analyze, and troubleshoot JMeter performance tests.
• Strong hands-on experience developing Selenium automation using Java.
• Experience designing and maintaining reusable automation frameworks and automated regression suites.
• Demonstrated experience with data lake, data warehouse, ETL/ELT, or data pipeline testing.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with functional, regression, integration, system, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum software development environments.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, JIRA, or similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of QA activities, identify risks proactively, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline integration of automated and performance tests.
• Experience with Python for test automation, data validation, or test utilities.
• Experience testing AI-powered applications and workflows.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted testing tools and Responsible AI practices.
• Exposure to AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, or similar AI platforms.
• Knowledge of Generative AI, LLMs, and Prompt Engineering.
• Experience working with offshore/distributed teams.
• Experience in new product development environments.
• Experience in the Healthcare domain.
• Experience working with PHI/PII and healthcare data, including applicable data privacy and security requirements.
• The estimated base salary for this job is $95,000 - $130,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $109,250 - $149,500 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.
• Position Level
• Associate
• Country
• United States of America

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Wellness programs
• Annual incentive compensation program