Senior Quality Automation Engineer

Job Overview

As a  Sr QA Automation Engineer within the Product organization, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of the backend services that power the PitchBook collection platform. You will be instrumental in building robust test frameworks, automated test suites, and quality assurance strategies that support the delivery of exceptional solutions used by thousands of PitchBook customers every day.

You will leverage your deep understanding of software testing principles and backend systems to design and implement scalable, maintainable, and efficient test automation. Your strong analytical skills will help you break down complex systems into testable components, identify edge cases, and proactively detect potential issues before they reach production.

You will collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders across the organization to define quality standards, influence design for testability, and ensure that testing is integrated seamlessly into the development lifecycle. Your ability to communicate clearly and adapt your approach based on your audience will be key to driving quality initiatives and fostering a culture of excellence.

As an experienced member of the team, you will also mentor junior engineers, share best practices, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing infrastructure and processes. You bring a growth mindset, are open to feedback, and are passionate about building a culture of collaboration, innovation, and purpose.

If you are driven by quality, love solving complex problems, and thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment, wed love to have you on our team!

Team Overview

The PitchBook Collection teams are a set of stream-aligned teams that own the services and tools which enable all data collections activities for thousands of data researchers across PitchBook and our parent company Morningstar.  We strive to get data and insights from source to end consumer, with as little manual interaction and friction as possible

Skills and Qualifications

• Overall experience of 6+ years in Quality Assurance and Testing with relevant 4-5 years hands on experience in Automation
• Strong experience in Automated Testing of Enterprise Class and Financial application and web portals
• Expert in UI Automation using tools like Selenium web driver,  Automation framework development with HANDS-ON
• Proficient in Java and Javascipt as programming language
• Expert in API testing (manual and automation) using Rest Assured frameworks and Ready API
• Exposure and know-how of performance testing and security testing tools
• Knowledge of AWS / Cloud needed.
• Knowledge on POSTMAN with hands-on experience.
• Should be self-driven engineer with desire to use practical and professional concepts in QA along with application of QA standards and procedures to resolve routine issues
• Should be able to write use cases based on product requirements, execute them and report issues in bug tracking system using AI Tools
• Should be self starter, lead and self contributing to the QA team to build robust and flexible Automated Testing Framework
• Helps QA community to learn Automation, impart necessary technical knowledge
• Hands-on current experience authoring, building and adopting large scale, cross-functional automation frameworks with well-balanced coverage across back-end integration, database levels, UI.
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD process and instrument full SDLC automation, specifically cloud testing execution, reporting tools such as ALM, Jira
• Improve process and quality via test and process automation: defining right strategy and technology based on process and architecture assessment by engaging different roles and stakeholders
• Deep practical experience with cutting edge tools for Web, Mobile, Desktop, DB and Web-service testing (Selenium, SoapUI, etc.)
• Experience using SQL with regard to writing and understanding queries and procedures

​Responsibilities

• Define and establish automation strategy and process
• Understand complex nature of the application and come up with the automation testing framework
• Should understand the requirement, design and develop the automation test cases
• Take ownership of QA requirements and provide testing guidance to the technology team
• Should also work as Individual Contributor
• Lead and coordinate the application enhancement and tech ops testing activities with technology and business teams
• Participate in team communication and collaborate in planning activities, including stand-ups, iteration planning meetings (IPM), and retrospectives.
• Manage and communicate regular updates on project status (e.g., work completed, work in progress, next steps, risks, quality, KPIs, and costs) to stakeholders, peers, Product managers, and others.

Mandatory Skills:

• Very good hands-on and good knowledge of API testing, RestAssured. Framework Development, Automation using Selenium Web driver, Exposure to test management and bug tracking tool (like ALM, Testrail, JIRA or others), Agile methodologies.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.