Quality Assurance Engineer

About the Company

American Financing is a fast-growing national mortgage lender that focuses on helping customers reach their financial goals through efficient, customer-centered solutions. The company emphasizes innovation, a family-owned culture, and opportunities for employees to do meaningful work.

Work Environment

• Casual workplace culture
• Hybrid arrangement available for local employees
• Family-owned and customer-focused organization
• Recognized as a Denver Post Top Workplace
• Named among the Top 50 Family-Owned Businesses
• Included in Best of Colorado Business
• Listed in the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Role Summary

The QA Analyst will join cross-functional product teams and take ownership of product quality across web applications. This position involves manual and technical testing, control of test data and environments, and direct support for end users who encounter system issues.

What You Will Do

• Review business requirements, technical specifications, and design documents to create detailed test cases and test scripts, with a strong emphasis on manual testing.
• Execute unit, regression, and user acceptance testing for multiple web applications.
• Serve as the quality checkpoint for releases moving into Staging and QA environments, while also tracking and reporting testing KPIs.
• Carry out compatibility checks across operating systems, mobile devices, and major browsers, ensuring responsive design works as intended.
• Use browser developer tools to inspect the DOM, review network activity, and troubleshoot frontend errors and console messages.
• Test APIs, including headless endpoints, REST services, and backend integrations, using tools such as Postman or SoapUI.
• Verify cookies, local storage, session handling, JSON payloads, custom data layer objects, and cache-related behavior.
• Perform basic accessibility validation aligned with WCAG 2.1 and Section 508 using screen readers or automated tools such as Lighthouse or Axe.
• Evaluate page-load speed, Core Web Vitals, and responsiveness under different network conditions.
• Create and manage test accounts across environments and handle access-related needs.
• Log, document, and track defects thoroughly, and repeat regression testing after fixes are implemented.
• Monitor QA metrics such as defect density and the number of open defects.
• Gather user feedback on product reliability and use it to improve testing approaches, tools, or scripts.
• Keep current with modern QA tools, methods, and test strategies.

Additional Information

Compensation for this role is $65,000 to $75,000 per year.

Equal Opportunity

American Financing Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions based on qualifications, merit, and business need. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or other protected characteristics. Applicants are also entitled to federal employment law notices regarding their rights.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Paid holidays
• Long-term paid disability coverage
• Paid maternity and bonding leave
• Full desk equipment provided

Candidate Profile

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.
• At least 3 years of software quality assurance experience is required.
• Strong knowledge of web QA practices, modern browsers, responsive design testing, and traffic inspection tools is needed.
• Working understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and how web apps communicate with APIs.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum teams and with test management or bug tracking tools such as Jira or TestRail.
• Ability to query SQL and NoSQL databases to confirm data accuracy and storage results.
• Comfort working in Linux environments to review logs independently for troubleshooting.
• Exposure to scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Ruby for debugging, log analysis, or web testing support.