Senior QA Engineer

Job title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 

Reports to: Team Lead, Quality Assurance

Department: Quality Assurance

Location: Alpharetta, GA 

Grade: 18

About Priority:

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company on a mission to deliver a personalized, easy-to-adopt financial toolset that accelerates cash flow and optimizes working capital for businesses. Our vision is to eliminate the barriers to unlocking revenue - empowering businesses to grow faster and operate smarter.

We achieve this through the Priority Commerce Engine, an innovative platform that combines

payables, acquiring, and banking and treasury solutions. This unified approach allows businesses to streamline financial operations, reduce unnecessary costs, and uncover new revenue opportunities.

At Priority, we're driven by results. We expect our people to be known for results - bringing expertise, momentum, and relentless focus to every challenge, helping our clients and each other thrive.

About the Role:

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer plays a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and

performance of Priority’s fintech platform through automation-first testing strategies. This role focuses on designing and implementing scalable test frameworks for APIs and backend services while partnering closely with engineering and product teams to deliver high-quality releases. The position requires strong automation expertise, system-level thinking, and the ability to translate requirements into effective test coverage. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve testing practices, increase automation coverage, and promote a culture of quality across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure high-quality and timely delivery of software releases.

• Design and maintain automated tests for APIs and backend services.

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test strategies.

• Write and maintain automated test suites.

• Perform API, integration, regression, and functional testing.

• Collaborate with developers to understand system architecture and requirements.

• Identify, document, and track defects through resolution.

• Participate in sprint planning, grooming, and release activities.

• Ensure proper validation of new features before production release.

• Contribute to improvements in QA processes, automation coverage, and testing tools.

• Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure quality outcomes.

• Document testing approaches and test coverage for new functionality.

• Help promote a culture of quality across engineering teams.

What Success Looks Like:

• High-quality releases with reduced defect leakage into production.

• Strong automated test coverage across APIs and backend systems.

• Faster feedback cycles through integration of testing into CI/CD pipelines.

• Improved collaboration between QA, engineering, and product teams.

• Early identification of defects and risks in the development lifecycle.

• Continuous improvement in testing practices, tools, and efficiency.

• A strong culture of quality embedded within engineering teams.

Candidate Requirements:

Required

• Minimum 6-8 years of professional experience in software quality assurance wit