Associate Qa Engineer Jobs in Oregon (NOW HIRING)

• Performing manual and automated testing of the Rebates application across supported environments, workflows, configurations, and user roles.
• Validating core functionality, including rebate calculations based on transaction data, month-end processing, approvals, reporting, file generation, and financial output accuracy.
• Testing end-to-end workflows across the UI, APIs, backend services, databases, queue/batch jobs, and downstream integrations.
• Developing, maintaining, and executing test plans, test cases, test matrices, regression suites, smoke tests, and test execution reports.
• Building and maintaining automated tests using Playwright or similar automation frameworks.
• Using AI-assisted tools such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and similar platforms to support test design, edge case discovery, test data planning, automation development, debugging, and QA efficiency.
• Reviewing and validating AI-generated suggestions before applying them to testing or automation work.
• Representing a QA perspective during refinement, planning, estimation, development, release planning, validation and other team activities.
• Executing REST API testing using Postman or similar tools and validate request payloads, response behavior, error handling, and integration outcomes.
• Performing backend validation using SQL queries, application logs, batch job results, generated files, monitoring dashboards, and database checks.
• Documenting defects clearly with reproduction steps, expected and actual results, test data, screenshots, logs, files, SQL results, or other supporting evidence.
• Collaborating with developers, product managers, business stakeholders, and QA team members to investigate issues, support root cause analysis, and verify fixes.
• Supporting release and deployment validation through smoke testing, regression testing, configuration checks, environment validation, and post-deployment verification.
• Reporting testing progress, defect trends, automation results, quality risks, and release readiness.
• Identifying opportunities to improve test coverage, automation reliability, QA processes, and responsible use of AI-assisted testing tools.

Qualifications & Skills

• 4+ years of software quality assurance experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, test design, regression testing, smoke testing, exploratory testing, and defect management.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience testing enterprise web applications, internal business applications, or financial systems.
• Experience performing manual and automated testing.
• Experience working with automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar tools.
• Experience testing REST APIs using Postman or similar tools.
• Comfortable working with relational databases, data models, and data integrity concepts. Experience writing SQL queries for backend data validation
• Experience validating complex business workflows across UI, API, backend, and integration layers.
• Experience working within a team and common collaboration tools such as Jira, Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Wiki
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, deployment validation, and release testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing financial applications, rebate systems, billing systems, accounting workflows, or payment-related applications.
• Experience with Playwright for automated testing.
• Experience validating batch jobs, scheduled processes, queue-based processing, or background workers.
• Experience testing file imports, file exports, generated reports, and data-driven processing workflows.
• Experience with Git, Bitbucket, GitHub, or similar version control systems.
• Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript scripting experience for test automation.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar tools to support software testing or development workflows.
• Familiarity with prompt writing for QA productivity, such as generating test cases, reviewing automation code, summarizing logs, or identifying edge cases.
• Experience reviewing application logs, monitoring dashboards, API payloads, SQL results, and system-generated files.
• Experience with AWS-based applications or services such as S3, RDS/Aurora, Cognito, SES, Secrets Manager, or EC2 is a plus.