Senior QA Automation Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Ensure the quality and dependability of designated products throughout UI, APIs, and data.

• Collaborate with the QA Manager to establish testing strategies and risk coverage, utilizing AI tools to enhance efficiency and coverage.

• Develop, enhance, and optimize scalable automation frameworks using Selenium and Playwright.

• Review test scripts, share testing methodologies, and proactively address design issues.

• Strategize and conduct functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end tests.

• Create and implement both manual and automated test cases that encompass functionality, performance, reliability, positive, negative, and edge scenarios.

• Evaluate risk and prioritize testing efforts in accordance with delivery schedules.

• Align test cases with business requirements and functional specifications.

• Investigate intricate or sporadic failures to identify root causes.

• Document and communicate defects, verify resolutions, and collaborate with development teams for issue resolution.

• Write and execute intricate SQL queries to ensure data integrity, transformations, and adherence to business logic.

• Validate data through processes of ingestion, normalization, and processing workflows.

• Confirm UI/API-triggered database interactions, migrations, schema alterations, and backfills.

• Develop and sustain reusable test data sets along with database setup and teardown routines.

• Implement and review Java automation scripts utilizing Selenium WebDriver and Playwright in accordance with the Page Object Model.

• Contribute to the design of the automation framework, reusable components, reporting, and management of test data.

• Integrate database validation within automated test suites.

• Enhance the reliability, execution speed, and maintenance costs of automation.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and aid in optimizing DevOps workflows, including parallel execution.

• Assist with performance and scalability testing.

• Employ AI tools for generating test cases, creating test data, analyzing defects, facilitating browser interactions, exploratory testing, and script production.

• Collaborate with the QA Manager, developers, and product managers to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Mentor and support junior QA engineers.

• Engage in design reviews and technical discussions.

• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of QA processes, tools, and standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software quality assurance.

• Minimum of 5 years in test automation.

• Proficient programming skills in Java.

• Practical experience with Selenium WebDriver and Playwright.

• Familiarity with design patterns such as the Page Object Model.

• Experience in contributing to the design or significant refactoring of an automation framework.

• Strong background in API testing.

• Advanced SQL skills with hands-on experience in relational database validation.

• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools and version control systems.

• Proven ability to run automation reliably within pipelines.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with a history of resolving complex issues to their root cause.

• Practical experience utilizing AI tools for generating test cases, creating test data, and analyzing defects.

• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol tooling, such as Playwright MCP.

• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools and the ability to assess AI-generated outputs.

• Preferred: experience in the fields of cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or security-oriented products.

• Preferred: understanding of security concepts including vulnerabilities, risk assessment, APIs, and data protection practices.

• Preferred: experience with MCP servers or agent-based testing workflows.

• Preferred: background in testing ETL/data pipelines or large-scale/NoSQL data repositories.

• Preferred: experience in performance/load testing, cloud environments, or containerized testing infrastructures.

• Ability to quickly learn and teach new tools, technologies, and frameworks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Flexible paid time off.

• 401k company contributions.

• Comprehensive healthcare options fully covered by the company.

• 100% company-paid dental insurance.

• 100% company-paid vision insurance.

• 100% company-paid life insurance.

• 100% company-paid short-term disability insurance.

• Emphasis on work-life balance.

• Opportunity to collaborate with a high-performing team that prioritizes creativity, autonomy, and innovation.

• Work on meaningful products that enhance the security posture of major organizations.