Senior Qa Software Testing Jobs in Madison, WI (NOW HIRING)

About the Role:

As a Quality Assurance / SDET, you will play a critical role in delivering highquality software solutions to our clients by ensuring testing excellence across complex initiatives. You will be aligned to a businessunit delivery team and partner closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Developers to define, execute, and continuously improve testing strategies.

This role balances handson testing with test planning, automation, reporting, and quality advocacy. You will contribute across multiple initiatives, applying riskbased thinking and strong technical skills to help ensure our solutions are reliable, scalable, and productionready.

This QA Analyst role supports our Corporate Resource Groups and requires a hybrid work environment. Baird is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future requiresponsorshipfor employmentvisastatus.

The Impact You'll Make:

• Develop and implement effective, riskbased testing strategies across multiple projects, ensuring appropriate coverage, traceability, and quality outcomes
• Drive the testing lifecycle from business scope through deployment and production release within an agile delivery model
• Design, create, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test data, including functional, integration, regression, data integrity, and stress testing
• Evaluate opportunities for test automation and performance testing, recommending appropriate tools, approaches, and frameworks
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts, while analyzing test results and identifying root causes of failures
• Review business requirements, technical designs, and acceptance criteria to identify gaps, risks, and testability concerns early in the delivery process
• Identify, document, communicate, and track defects from discovery through resolution, ensuring clear reproduction steps and impact analysis
• Develop and manage QA metrics and reporting to monitor quality trends, surface risks, and drive continuous improvement
• Coordinate test environments, test data creation, and build promotions in partnership with project and delivery teams
• Participate in agile ceremonies, design reviews, and backlog refinement, advocating for quality practices and influencing delivery decisions
• Educate and mentor on testing approaches, tools, and quality standards
• Contribute to the evolution of QA processes, tools, automation practices, and continuous improvement initiatives across the portfolio

What You'll Bring to Baird:

• A minimum of five (5) years of prior IT or businessrelated experience, including at least three to five (3-5) years of Quality Assurance, Test Automation, or Software Development experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field preferred
• Strong ability to decompose business and technical requirements into detailed, effective test cases for functional, regression, and integration testing
• Demonstrated knowledge of software testing types and methodologies, including blackbox, whitebox, graybox, regression, negative, system, and unit testing
• Experience working within agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and executing testing activities within short iteration cycles
• Handson experience testing APIs and data integrations, with a strong understanding of how data flows across systems
• Demonstrated experience with automated UI and API testing tools and monitors (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, ThunderClient, SOAPUI, Dynatrace, Azure alerts, or similar), with the ability to identify and implement automation opportunities
• Strong SQL skills, including the ability to write queries to validate data integrity, transformations, and reporting accuracy across large data sets
• Experience with defect tracking, QA metrics, and reporting, with a focus on driving quality improvements
• Familiarity with test management tools such as Microsoft Test Manager, Quality Center, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms preferred
• Working knowledge of common web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST APIs)
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders
• Proven ability to adapt to changing priorities, manage multiple initiatives, and identify quality risks in complex environments
• Experience partnering with Business Analysts, Product Owners, and Developers to review requirements, identify risks, and promote quality best practices

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