AXIOM QA Automation Lead

Job Description

Role: AXIOM QA Automation Lead

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Exp: 8+ years

$120k to $130k

Full Time

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong hands-on experience testing AXIOM/AxiomSL regulatory reporting solutions, including report configuration, data lineage, validation and submission workflows.

• Proven experience designing and implementing QA automation frameworks from scratch using Java or Python with Selenium and/or Playwright.

• Advanced SQL skills for source-to-target validation, database reconciliation, complex joins, stored procedures and high-volume data testing.

• Experience validating ETL/data pipelines, inbound feeds, transformation rules, aggregation logic and regulatory report outputs.

• Hands-on API testing and automation using REST Assured, Postman or equivalent tools.

• Working knowledge of banking regulatory reporting, financial products and controls; experience with FR Y-9C, FFIEC 031/041, Call Reports or similar reports is preferred.

• Experience integrating automated tests with Azure DevOps or Jenkins pipelines, Git-based version control and test-management tools.

• Strong defect management, root-cause analysis, test governance and stakeholder communication skills.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of software testing experience with significant experience in data-intensive banking or financial-services applications.

• Hands-on AXIOM/AxiomSL testing experience covering functional, regression, integration, data and regulatory-report validation.

• Demonstrated success building scalable UI, API and database automation frameworks and increasing regression coverage.

• Experience working in Agile delivery models and collaborating with business analysts, developers, data teams and regulatory-reporting SMEs.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the end-to-end QA strategy, automation roadmap, test plan, entry/exit criteria and quality metrics for AXIOM releases.

• Design, build and maintain reusable automation frameworks for AXIOM workflows, APIs, databases and supporting applications.

• Validate source data, transformation rules, calculations, adjustments, reconciliations and final regulatory-report outputs.

• Lead functional, integration, regression, system, data-conversion and production-validation testing across release cycles.

• Create traceability between business requirements, regulatory rules, test scenarios, automation suites and defects.

• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and publish actionable execution and coverage reports.

• Lead defect triage, perform root-cause analysis, track quality risks and drive defects to closure with delivery teams.

• Mentor QA engineers, review test assets and enforce automation, coding and documentation standards.