Senior QA Automation Engineer ID72456

AgileEngine•Aurora, CO

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality strategy for serverless middleware services powering ordering, loyalty, payments, and third-party integrations across a major consumer platform. You will design and maintain automated test suites for RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures on AWS, execute performance and load testing, validate partner integrations including delivery and payment platforms, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. The role expects active use of AI-assisted tools as a core part of daily quality engineering work.

Requirements

4+ years of quality engineering or software engineering experience focused on backend API testing
Experience designing automated test suites for REST APIs in distributed or microservices environments
Hands-on experience with performance and load testing
Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python
Working knowledge of AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS)
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent)
Familiarity with contract testing approaches and consumer-driven contracts
Strong analytical and root-cause analysis skills, including distinguishing flaky tests from real defects
Experience validating asynchronous systems
Strong scripting skills
Clear communication and ability to translate test findings into engineering priorities
Collaborative approach to working within engineering sprints
Upper-intermediate English level

Nice To Haves

Experience with k6, Gatling, JMeter, or similar performance testing tools
Postman/Newman experience
Familiarity with Pact or other contract testing tools
Cognito authentication testing experience
Delivery and payment integration testing experience
Experience with DoorDash, Uber Eats, or similar marketplace APIs
Chaos engineering and fault injection (AWS FIS or similar)
Observability tooling experience (Dynatrace, Datadog, CloudWatch)
Multi-region AWS testing and failover/latency validation
Background in QSR, retail, or e-commerce domains
AWS Certified Developer – Associate or higher

Responsibilities

Build automated test frameworks for serverless applications
Validate event-driven workflows and asynchronous messaging
Execute performance and load testing
Validate resiliency and failure scenarios
Design, build, and maintain automated test suites covering functional, integration, and contract testing for middleware APIs and services ensuring correct behavior in isolation and across dependencies
Leverage AI-assisted tools for test case generation, synthetic data creation, failure analysis, and coverage documentation
Own performance and reliability validation including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, establishing baselines and identifying bottlenecks
Partner with engineers throughout the development cycle to align on test strategy, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
Validate third-party integrations through contract testing, sandbox/staging validation, and failure mode analysis
Track and report quality metrics, maintain documentation, and contribute to incident post-mortems