Top Senior QA Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads IT QA teams and quality outcomes across products and delivery areas. Responsibilities include people management, talent development, QA governance, test automation strategy, release readiness, risk management, quality metrics, stakeholder partnership, resource planning, and continuous improvement. The role manages up to 15 QA analysts and drives scalable testing practices, automation adoption, delivery confidence, and customer-focused quality results.

Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and suites for UI, API, integration, database, functional, regression, and end-to-end testing. Create test strategies, plans, cases, and scenarios; validate system controls and compliance requirements; manage defects; analyze quality metrics; and support release and production validation. Collaborate with product, business analysis, development, and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Senior QA Engineer responsible for designing and executing test strategies for Amazon Connect contact centers, building manual and automated Playwright/Cypress/Selenium suites across UI, API and serverless backends, validating migrations and production readiness, running UAT, incident triage, and mentoring junior QA engineers.

Owns product quality for a complex client-server web application and mobile SDK ecosystem. Responsibilities include writing test cases and acceptance criteria, clarifying requirements, executing end-to-end, regression, integration, and exploratory testing, assessing release risks, maintaining reusable test coverage, and improving testing infrastructure across backend, frontend, SDK, and native mobile platforms.

Develops and maintains automated unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests across Agile and DevSecOps pipelines. The role manages test documentation, traceability matrices, UAT support, defect tracking, security and accessibility testing, performance and disaster recovery testing, and quality reporting. It also supports code reviews, release quality gates, compliance with DoD standards, and collaboration with developers, QA leads, government stakeholders, and product teams.

Senior QA Engineer responsible for manual and automated testing of high-volume, data-intensive applications. Duties include developing test plans, executing regression and UAT testing, maintaining Selenium or Playwright automation, performing database testing with SQL, troubleshooting defects, reporting QA metrics, and collaborating with engineering and business teams in an Agile environment. The role also mentors QA professionals and provides technical leadership across testing activities.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for enterprise applications. Develops automation scripts, validates APIs and web services, performs functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing, and applies BDD practices. Supports CI/CD integration, analyzes QA metrics, improves testing processes, and collaborates with engineering and business stakeholders to ensure software quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Lead quality assurance activities for large projects, including test planning, design, execution, management, metrics, and communication. Coordinate internal teams, contract testers, vendors, and UAT sign-offs while providing QA subject matter expertise. Participate in requirements and design reviews, maintain testing documentation, resolve issues, and advance quality engineering practices through automation, AI tooling, and Testing Center of Excellence initiatives.

Lead and develop a distributed QA team for a live AAA mobile game. The role drives scalable QA practices, release excellence, quality metrics, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, live operations, marketing, customer support, localization, and external development teams. Responsibilities include planning quality activities, managing releases and deployments, communicating risks to stakeholders, and supporting continuous improvement throughout the game development lifecycle.

Leads a quality assurance automation team while remaining primarily hands-on. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for web, mobile, and API testing; planning and executing tests; integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines; improving QA processes; establishing standards; mentoring staff; managing resources; and supporting multiple Scrum teams. The role partners with engineering, product, and DevOps teams and requires cloud-native application testing experience.

Lead quality assurance for storage and filesystem features, designing test strategies, executing system, stress, regression, and cross-functional testing, and developing automation. Collaborate with developers, tools teams, and customer support to improve testability, reproduce issues, and debug defects. The role requires expertise in NFS, SMB, NAS filesystems, Linux, Windows, VMware, shell scripting, Python, packet capture, test infrastructure, and release management.

Performs manual and automated QA, functional, regression, integration, accessibility, API, and UAT testing for enterprise applications. Develops test plans, cases, scripts, and documentation; reproduces defects; validates WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 compliance; supports automation and Agile testing cycles; and collaborates with developers, product owners, UX, business analysts, and cybersecurity teams. The role is fully remote and requires an active Secret clearance, bachelor’s degree, five years of relevant experience, and accessibility certification.

Performs automated and manual testing of enterprise APIs and integration workflows. Develops contract, schema, endpoint, negative, boundary, regression, and end-to-end tests; validates authentication, payloads, accessibility, and API version changes. Documents defects and test results, maintains traceability artifacts, supports CI/CD test integration, and collaborates with development, integration, cybersecurity, and product teams in an Agile environment.

Own the QA/QC function for a software product portfolio by designing and executing manual and automated tests, UAT scripts, traceability, defect management, release readiness, quality metrics, and CSV documentation. Partner with Product, Engineering, Technical Project Management, and Client Delivery while supporting approximately 10% client interaction for UAT activities. Build scalable QA processes, regression coverage, and audit-ready validation practices.

Perform QA for OneStream/EPM implementation supporting a DoD client: plan and execute SIT/UAT and regression testing; develop test cases and scripts; validate configurations, integrations, calculations, workflows, and reports; manage defects and traceability; support deployment, go-live, hypercare, and post-production validation.

The Quality Assurance Analyst II will analyze requirements, create test cases and plans, execute manual and exploratory testing, troubleshoot and reproduce defects, document bug reports, verify fixes, and prioritize test execution. The role also collaborates with QA engineers to expand automated test coverage based on business priorities and risks. Strong communication, analytical problem-solving, attention to detail, and familiarity with test management and bug-tracking tools are required.

Leads QA strategy and execution for enterprise applications, including Oracle NetSuite, ERP, financial, inventory, order management, ecommerce, and CMS systems. Designs test cases, performs regression and UAT testing, validates defects, writes SQL queries, analyzes test results, and reports release readiness. Partners with business and development teams, coordinates onsite and offshore QA staff, supports D2C initiatives, and serves as a functional SME for inventory and financial systems.

Drive quality assurance for web features from technical handoff through production release. Responsibilities include test planning, test case creation, functional and exploratory testing, regression, UI/UX, cross-browser, responsive, API, and end-to-end testing. Support releases through build validation and monitoring, document and review tests, collaborate with product and engineering teams, improve QA metrics, and optionally contribute to test automation.

Lead quality assurance and test strategy across Agile teams, drive automation for testing, mentor QA teams, and ensure high-quality software delivery.

Designs and executes automated, API, UI, regression, smoke, and end-to-end tests for cloud-native and air-gapped federal environments. Integrates test suites with GitLab CI and Jenkins, validates security and compliance baselines, diagnoses Linux and Windows systems, and documents test plans, defects, and results. The role supports reliable deployment of cyber-physical security solutions across government and critical infrastructure environments.

Lead design, development, and maintenance of test automation frameworks; mentor junior engineers; integrate automated tests into CI/CD; perform API and load testing; troubleshoot test failures; implement test data management and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve QA processes.

Owns functional, exploratory, regression, automation, and user acceptance testing across API- and SDK-based products. Designs test cases, translates acceptance criteria into scenarios, manages defects, verifies data, and supports release readiness across development, certification, and production environments. Collaborates with product managers, developers, and SDETs to identify coverage gaps and improve quality practices. The role may also test financial transaction flows and contribute to automation debt remediation.

Lead a QA team to plan, design, and execute automated and manual tests across multiple insurance software programs. Create QA plans, manage test strategies, oversee defect management, coordinate UAT with business and vendors, report metrics, and mitigate testing risks while ensuring requirements coverage and vendor deliverable validation.

Design, build, and maintain manual and automated end-to-end tests for front-end and back-end APIs. Use Cucumber BDD, Postman, Jenkins, and SQL to validate functionality, data integrity, and performance across cloud-native and big-data environments (GCP/BigQuery). Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, track defects in Jira, and collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to ensure continuous quality.

Lead and own Syllo's QA strategy, build scalable automated testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD, and drive quality across Engineering, Product, and Customer Success. Champion QA processes, measure and improve release standards, reproduce and validate complex customer issues, and leverage AI/LLM tools to modernize test generation, failure analysis, and automation to increase release confidence and reduce manual testing.