Senior QA Automation Engineer - BC Forward - Jersey City, NJ

Job Title: Quality Assurance Consultant III

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Duration: Contract - 11 months

Pay Range: $60.40/hr (W2)

Job ID: 373182

About BCforward

BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in automated testing, data and integration testing, and Agile delivery and a proven ability to own QA strategy for complex, business-critical reference data platforms and deliver release confidence through risk-based testing.

Responsibilities:

Define and govern an end-to-end testing strategy aligned to reference data usage and risk.Establish QA standards, coverage expectations, and quality metrics; identify gaps and drive maturity.Embed quality early in the lifecycle through shift-left practices.Design, build, and maintain automated regression suites; integrate with CI/CD and select automation versus manual based on risk.Validate reference data accuracy, completeness, and consistency; assess downstream impacts.Design and execute tests for data transformations, mappings, APIs, services, batch processes, and feeds.Perform source-to-target validation and ensure referential integrity across systems.Partner with Product Owners and Engineers to define testable requirements and acceptance criteria; support Agile ceremonies.Provide quality status, risk assessments, and go/no-go recommendations for releases.Support audit, compliance, and governance needs with documented evidence; reduce incidents via preventive QA.Participate in i