Internship – Quality Assurance Automation Engineer (Year-Round)

About the role

This year-round internship on Baird’s Business Process team provides hands-on quality assurance automation experience in an agile environment. The intern will develop and maintain Playwright and TypeScript tests, support manual testing, investigate defects and failures, and learn how technology, processes and financial-services workflows create business value.

Responsibilities

• Build automated regression coverage and support manual testing for active releases.
• Develop and maintain automated end-to-end tests using Playwright with TypeScript within the QA automation framework.
• Translate requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria into test scenarios and reusable scripts.
• Create reusable page objects, workflow components, test-data utilities and validation functions.
• Document defects, retest fixes, analyze failures and improve test reliability and maintainability.
• Participate in reviews, sprint ceremonies, defect triage, release testing, retrospectives and quality documentation.

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid schedule: four days weekly in Baird’s downtown Milwaukee office and one day remote.
• Work 37.5–40 hours weekly during summer and 15–20 hours weekly during school semesters.
• Local student sought who can start in June 2027.
• Baird is not currently hiring individuals who now or later require employment visa sponsorship.

Program Experience

• Gain exposure to risk-based testing, regression strategy, test-data management, defect lifecycle management and CI/CD execution.
• Collaborate with QA, engineering, business analysis, product ownership and operational teams.
• Learn financial-services workflows from client or branch requests through validation, approval, processing and completion.
• Intern program includes hands-on projects, mentorship, networking, professional development and firmwide events.