Senior QA / Release Manager

Senior QA / Release Manager

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Quality Assurance (QA)

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -022026-105316

Date Posted: 02/01/2026

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Description:

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A leading regional financial services organization serving individuals, businesses, and communities across the Midwest and Southeast. The organization offers financial solutions with a focus on innovation, customer experience, and responsible practices. It emphasizes community impact, operational excellence, and employee development while leveraging technology and data-driven insights to deliver secure and personalized financial solutions.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $55.00 to $63.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to develop, document, and implement QA processes and procedures to improve product quality.

• Create, implement, maintain, and enhance test plans, test scripts, and test methodologies for assigned systems.

• Develop software quality test plans and test cases and maintain standards for QA documentation.

• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive test plans to validate software requirements.

• Ensure a high degree of quality across programs, procedures, systems, and release documentation.

• Anticipate potential software problems by creating exhaustive test scenarios.

• Perform ETL testing across integrated data pipelines and systems.

• Document testing results in alignment with approved test plans.

• Identify and analyze defects and trace chains of events leading to failures.

• Identify areas for test improvement using analysis and metrics.

• Communicate critical issues and status updates in a timely manner.

• Educate, train, coach, and provide guidance to QA team members.

• Define environment strategy for all systems in scope and manage configuration and refresh cycles.

• Coordinate deployment calendars, schedules, and dependencies across multiple teams and platforms.

• Track and report code and configuration changes across environments to ensure release readiness.

Experience Requirements:

Experience Requirements

• 5 to 20 years of QA and release management experience across multi-system environments.

• Proven ability to oversee code changes, configuration updates, and deployments across diverse systems.

• Experience managing integrated environments across multiple platforms beyond a single application ecosystem.

• Strong understanding of Agile Release Train coordination in scaled environments.

• Familiarity with release management tools, scheduling, and dependency tracking.

• Excellent organizational and communication skills for cross-team coordination.

• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining test plans, scripts, and methodologies.

• Demonstrated ETL testing experience with data validation across environments.

• Ability to analyze defects, trace root causes, and recommend corrective actions.

• Experience establishing QA documentation standards and continuous improvement practices.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( [email protected] , 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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