The Senior Software Quality Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, executing, and maintaining scalable, reliable automated tests to support integration, regression, API, and UI testing for the Payroll Integration Hub. The role builds reusable test automation for API validation, inbound and outbound file verification, reconciliation checks, and business rule validation, including verification from UI through backend processing and status visibility. This role integrates automated tests into enterprise CI/CD pipelines, supports unit and integration test coverage reporting, and leverages GitHub Copilot to accelerate test development following AI best practices. The engineer brings strong hands-on automation expertise in Java, with experience using TestNG, Maven, RestAssured, Selenium, Python, SQL, Git, and Azure DevOps pipelines, and has extensive experience working with cloud technologies. The Senior Software Quality Engineer works closely with software developers, test leads, and business teams to analyze requirements, identify, create, triage, and review bugs, validate fixes, and design effective automated test solutions. The role documents tests, maintains test traceability and bug tracking in Azure DevOps, assists with overall test automation planning and execution, supports test data setup, and defines test data requirements to ensure comprehensive and reliable test coverage. This role requires strong understanding of software testing methodologies and processes, experience working with cloud platforms, ability to work in Agile/Scrum environments, and strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Please refer to the ‘Testing Process and Technology’ slide for test automation technology stack.