Role Summary:

We are seeking an Automated QA Engineer to help design, develop, and maintain robust automated testing solutions for web, mobile, APIs, and backend systems. This role will contribute to delivering high-quality software by ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance through comprehensive test automation strategies while collaborating closely with software engineers, product managers, business analysts, and DevOps teams.

· Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for web, mobile, API, and backend applications.
· Create and implement automated functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing solutions.
· Collaborate with product owners, software engineers, business analysts, and UX teams to understand requirements and define test strategies.
· Participate in requirements reviews, design reviews, and sprint planning activities to ensure testability and quality considerations are addressed early in the development lifecycle.
· Develop and maintain reusable automation frameworks, libraries, and utilities following established coding standards and best practices.
· Create and execute API tests using REST, GraphQL, and other service-based architectures.
· Analyze test results, identify defects, and work closely with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
· Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing and rapid delivery.
· Implement test data management strategies and support test environment setup and maintenance.
· Monitor product quality metrics and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
· Perform root cause analysis of production defects and provide recommendations to prevent recurrence.
· Create and maintain testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, automation architecture diagrams, and quality reports.
· Participate in code reviews for both application and test automation code.
· Collaborate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
· Advocate for quality engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle.

Requirements:

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
· 3+ years of professional experience in software quality assurance or software development.
· 2+ years of hands-on experience developing automated test solutions using modern automation frameworks and programming languages.
· Experience testing web applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
· Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, testing strategies, and quality assurance principles.
· Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, or similar technologies.
· Experience with API testing tools and frameworks.
· Proficiency in at least one programming language such as C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar.
· Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
· Familiarity with test management, defect tracking, and Agile development practices.
· Experience with Git-based source control workflows.
· Understanding of software architecture, system integrations, and microservices-based applications.
· Experience working within Agile development teams using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
· Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have:

· Experience with Playwright and TypeScript-based automation frameworks.
· Experience with mobile test automation using Appium or similar tools.
· Knowledge of performance and load testing tools such as JMeter, k6, or LoadRunner.
· Experience testing cloud-native applications deployed on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
· Familiarity with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
· Understanding of behavior-driven development (BDD) frameworks such as SpecFlow or Cucumber.
· Experience implementing test reporting and quality dashboards.
· Knowledge of secure software development and security testing practices.
· Exposure to CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or TeamCity.
· Experience working within large-scale enterprise software development environments.
· Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), microservices architectures, and event-driven systems.
· Experience testing distributed enterprise applications and microservices architectures.
· Experience validating integrations across APIs, message queues, databases, and external systems.
· Familiarity with RBAC/security testing and enterprise identity management solutions.
· Ability to establish quality gates and testing standards across multiple development teams.
· Experience building quality engineering practices within Agile product organizations.

Pay: $45.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Work Location: In person

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