QA Automation Engineer
About The Position
The QA Automation Engineer develops, maintains, and executes automated tests to validate application functionality across user roles and workflows. The role designs UI automation using tools such as Playwright and works to ensure test coverage is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with release objectives. The engineer leads automation initiatives, including integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes, and also conducts manual feature, stress, and regression testing. The position creates and organizes test suites in TestRails or a similar tool, reviews automation code, and communicates test results, defects, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders during release cycles. The position supports enterprise applications and AWS-based workloads, working with technologies including JavaScript or TypeScript, AWS, Vue.js, Python, Django, Amazon S3, GitHub Actions, Systems Manager, and PostgreSQL. It collaborates with and supports team members in a remote environment and contributes to iterative releases in an Agile delivery environment. The role also validates workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and related quality standards.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or Green Card status and ability to obtain a public trust clearance.
- At least four years of experience in quality assurance, software testing, or application development for enterprise systems.
- At least two years of experience providing quality assurance and testing support for AWS-based workloads.
- Bachelor’s degree or four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Demonstrated experience performing manual and automated testing, including defect documentation, issue reproduction, regression testing, and validation.
- Strong experience developing test automation using Playwright with JavaScript or TypeScript, along with API testing, performance testing, Swagger, and Postman.
- Experience designing, maintaining, and integrating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with AWS services such as Systems Manager and PostgreSQL.
- Proficiency testing applications and workloads built with AWS services and technologies, including Vue.js, Python, Django, and Amazon S3.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote environment while collaborating with, mentoring, and supporting team members to resolve complex technical issues.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including planning, testing, and supporting iterative software releases.
- Ability to test and validate workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and related quality standards.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting or testing Python/Django-based web applications.
- Experience conducting penetration, performance, or load testing for applications hosted in AWS cloud environments.
- Experience configuring and validating application monitoring, alerting, and error tracking using Sentry or similar tools.
- Knowledge of Section 508 accessibility testing standards, requirements, and validation practices.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts to validate application functionality across multiple user roles and workflows.
- Design and implement UI automation using tools such as Playwright, ensuring test coverage is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with release objectives.
- Lead test automation initiatives, including integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes.
- Conduct manual testing of individual features and stress testing to support high-quality deployments.
- Create and organize testing suites in TestRails or a similar tool.
- Periodically run the full manual test suite for regression testing.
- Conduct peer reviews of test automation code to promote quality, consistency, and adherence to engineering best practices.
- Communicate test execution results, defects, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders during each release cycle.
- Collaborate with, mentor, and support team members in a remote environment to resolve complex technical issues.
- Test and validate workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and related quality standards.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
- Personal and family sick time
- Company-paid holidays
- Parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Group term life and travel assistance
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- Health savings account
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- Transit and parking commuter benefits
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Tuition reimbursement
- Personal development, certifications, and learning opportunities
- Employee referral program
- Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee assistance program
- Supplemental benefits, including critical care, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, legal assistance, and ID theft protection
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
