QA Test Engineer (6 Month Contract Role)

About Us:  CompassX is a boutique business and technology consulting firm. We help Fortune 500 and high-growth clients deliver their most strategic initiatives, from enterprise transformations to digital and data-driven projects. With over 15 years of proven results, we’ve expanded across industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, consumer products, and quick service restaurants. We are honored to be recognized as a three-time winner of Consulting Magazine’s Best Boutique Firms to Work For, and previously recognized as a “Best Place to Work” in Southern California and one of INC.’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.   About The Role:  We are seeking a QA Test Engineer to support our Quick Service Restaurant industry client practice for a high-impact, 6-month consulting engagement. In this role, you will be embedded directly within the client's ecosystem, driving quality assurance and building automated validation frameworks for cross-service applications. Operating on CST hours in a remote setup, you will not just execute scripts, you will take complete ownership of functional use cases, testing modern architectures built on GraphQL, Playwright, and real-time Pub/Sub (MQTT) systems. This role is ideal for a testing expert who thrives on identifying failures across distributed software components and is eager to pioneer AI-enhanced development tools to accelerate deployment velocity.