Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the customer and/or project team to gain an understanding of the application requirements and conformance criteria
• Developing and executing test plans
• Writing and executing test scripts (both manual and automated)
• Developing comprehensive automated testing frameworks and solutions
• Automate application functionality, integration, and regression tests
• Integrate automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline
• Analyzing and testing through all software development life-cycle stages
• Supporting an agile incremental delivery approach
• Provide regular updates on testing progress, issues, and results to project stakeholders

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of relevant experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expert proficiency in designing, developing, and maintaining automation test suites using frameworks like Selenium, Katalon, and JUNIT/TestNG for cross-browser testing
• Proficiency with programming languages like Java, JavaScript, and Python to write automation test scripts and develop test frameworks
• Able to perform both Frontend (UI) and Backend (API, database, and server-side) testing
• Strong SQL familiarity for data validation in the database (Postgres) during testing
• Experience working in a CI/CD DevSecOps environment with Jira, Confluence and Jenkins
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Be willing and able to mentor others, and exhibit demonstrated excellent customer service skills

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to read and understand Jenkins Groovy scripts
• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner)
• API Testing using RestEasy, Postman, or Insomnia

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with SoapUI
• Experience working with Katalon – Web, API
• Experience creating/working with test automation environments (e.g. Jenkins, Selenium Grid container)
• Familiar with version control systems (Git, Bitbucket, etc.)
• 508 Testing Certification