Financial Crimes Quality Engineer

Job Title: Financial Crimes Quality Engineer Location: Cincinnati OH Duration: Contract - 1 months Pay Range: $65/hr to $75/hr (W2) Job ID: 411858 About BCforward BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity. Job Description We are seeking a Financial Crimes Quality Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in data quality testing, test automation, and end-to-end application and integration testing across AML, CDD, CTR, and Sanctions domains and a proven ability to develop and execute comprehensive testing strategies that improve reliability, accuracy, and performance of Financial Crimes applications and data. Responsibilities: * Develop and execute test strategies, plans, scenarios, and cases based on business, technical, and regulatory requirements. * Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, UI, API, and data testing for Financial Crimes applications. * Validate data across complex pipelines, including source-to-target reconciliation, transformation logic, completeness, accuracy, timeliness, duplication, and exceptions. * Use SQL extensively to validate data, investigate discrepancies, reconcile record counts, and confirm business and transformation rules. * Test upstream and downstream integrations to ensure accurate data processing across Financial Crimes systems. * Develop, execute, and maintain automated test suites using Katalon and other approved automation technologies. * Use qTest to manage test cases, execution, traceability, evidence, and defect tracking. * Partner with developers and data engineers to integrate automated testing and quality checks into CI/CD and data-delivery pipelines. * Identify opportunities to automate repetitive functional, regression, data-validation, and integration tests. * Perform defect identification, documentation, triage, retesting, and root-cause analysis with engineering teams. * Support testing of data-quality controls and validation patterns, including record-count reconciliation, required-field and identifier validation, lookup validation, duplicate detection, and abnormal volume detection. * Shift quality earlier in the lifecycle by validating data and application functionality before reaching downstream platforms. * Work within Agile teams and participate in planning, refinement, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, demos, and release activities. * Contribute to Quality Engineering standards, reusable automation, testing practices, metrics, and continuous improvement. Required Skills & Qualifications: * Experience with quality engineering and software testing, including manual and automated testing. * Strong SQL and data-testing skills for large and complex datasets. * Experience testing ETL/ELT processes, databases, APIs, applications, and system integrations. * Hands-on experience with Katalon or comparable test-automation platforms. * Experience with qTest or similar test-management solutions.