QA Automation Engineer

Wilson Elser - Business & Legal Professionals•New York, NY

2h•$140,000 - $180,000

About The Position

This role will combine core software QA practices—including functional testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing, test automation, and release validation. The role will also require the candidate to design, build, and maintain a scalable automation framework spanning UI, API, and integration testing — and embed quality gates directly into our CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, test engineering, or a related software engineering role.
Experience designing and executing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test cases for production software applications within multi-faceted enterprise environments.
Advanced skills with automated testing frameworks such as Jest, K6, Playwright, Selenium, Postman
Strong experience with front end technologies utilizing JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, NodeJS such as Angular, React, and/or Vue.js
Experience with back end and cloud languages such as C#, Java, or Python.

Nice To Haves

Strong understanding of functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, exploratory testing, defect management, and release validation.
Comfortable defining test scenarios, expected outcomes, and provide analytics based on automated workflows.
Strong grasp of test automation principles, API testing, CI/CD integration, and reusable test design.
Comfortable working across engineering, data analytics, and product teams to define quality standards, acceptance criteria, and analyze results for continuous improvement.
Proven ability to mentor, participate, and promote environments of knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Responsibilities

Design and execute reusable automated test plans for Wilson Elser's software applications, including functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, and end-to-end validation of user workflows.
Verify that new features meet acceptance criteria, operate reliably across supported environments, and do not introduce regressions into existing functionality as efficiently as possible.
Integrate automated checks into CI/CD pipelines where appropriate, including regression tests, workflow-level tests.
Maintain clear test plans, test cases, defect documentation, quality criteria, and release readiness artifacts.
Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, acceptance-criteria definition, and release reviews as the quality advocate for software functionality development and testing processes.