QA Automation Engineer (Mid-level)

Ntechcolab; Curitiba; Hybrid; BRL 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NETZSCH G&D is seeking a hands-on QA Automation Engineer (Mid-level) to own quality for our global Customer Portal built on Salesforce B2B Commerce and Experience Cloud (LWR). You’ll drive API/integration tests, UI smoke tests, and embed validations into CI/CD for safe releases.

You’ll work across environments, support UAT cycles, and collaborate with developers to improve testability and observability, ensuring reliable, scalable test coverage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Software QA with focus on test automation for web apps and APIs.
• Experience designing/executing API test automation (Postman/Newman or similar).
• Hands-on UI test automation (Playwright or Cypress) for critical journeys.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Ability to troubleshoot across UI, APIs, and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Own QA execution for the Customer Portal, including test strategy, plans, evidence, and release readiness.
• Design and maintain API/integration test suites for Salesforce and SAP flows.
• Build lightweight UI smoke tests for key portal journeys and integrate into CI/CD.
• Collaborate with developers to improve testability, observability, and defect prevention.
• Validate end-to-end scenarios, support UAT cycles, and document defects clearly.
• Manage test data and environments to keep regression runs reliable.

Skills

QA automation

API testing

UI automation

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Test planning

Tools

Postman

Newman

Playwright

Cypress

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

The NETZSCH Group is a German company founded 150 years ago, with 50 years of operations in Brazil.The company operates through three main units:Analysis and Testing,Grinding and DispersionandPumps and Systems.Additionally,Techco.labserves as a fourth business unit, providing its services to other NETZSCH branches, on tech areas.

With innovative solutions, NETZSCH empowers its customers to create exciting products for a sustainable and innovative world!

Job Description

NETZSCH G&D are seeking a hands-on QA Automation Engineer (Mid-level) to take end-to-end ownership of quality for our global Customer Portal built on Salesforce B2B Commerce and Experience Cloud (LWR). You will help ensure production-ready deliveries across the full customer journey (user management, catalog, RFQ, checkout,serviceand analytics), with a strong focus on reliable SAP and enterprise integrations.

A key part of this role is to build and evolve an automation approach that prioritizes API and integration test coverage, complemented by lightweight UI smoke tests for critical portal journeys, and to embed these validations into CI/CD to support safe and predictable releases.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

• Own QA execution for the Customer Portal, including test strategy, test plans, test evidence, and release readiness.
• Design, implement, andmaintainan API and integration test suite for Salesforce and SAP-related flows (contracts, payload validation, negative scenarios, and error handling).
• Build andmaintaina lightweight E2E UI smoke suite for critical portal journeys (login, search, cart, checkout, order confirmation,orderand shipping tracking).
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD workflows, producing actionablereportsand supporting quality gates for deployments.
• Validate end-to-end scenarios across environments, support UAT cycles, and ensure defects are clearly documented, reproducible, and prioritized.
• Collaborate closely with developers to improve testability, observability, and defect prevention (logging, correlation IDs, predictable error messages).
• Manage test data and environment readiness (seed data, stable test accounts, datarefresh coordination) to keep regression runs reliable.
• Drive continuous improvement of QA practices, reducing flaky tests and improving coverage of critical business flows.
• Participate in discovery andrefinement ofnew features, contributingwithtestability reviews, risk assessment, clear acceptance criteria, and a fit-for-purpose test approach (API vs UI,dataand environment needs).

Experience:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Software QA, withstrongfocus on test automation for web applications and APIs.
• Proven experience designing and executing API test automation (e.g., Postman/Newman or similar), including assertions, environments, variables, and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with UI test automation (Playwright or Cypressor similar), building stable smoke/regression tests for critical user journeys.
• Experiencevalidatingintegration flows and troubleshooting issues using logs, payload inspection, and correlation identifiers (where available).
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows (running automated test suites in pipelines such as GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins and interpreting results).
• Experience supporting UAT andreleasereadiness activities (test evidence, defect triage, risk-based testing).
• Experience managing test data and test environments to keep regression runs reliable (seed data, test accounts, environment readiness).
• Solid test design and documentation: risk-based testing, clear acceptance criteria, negative testing, and test evidence.
• Strong troubleshooting across UI, APIs, and integrations (logs, payloads, root-cause support).
• Hands-on API testing and automation (HTTP fundamentals, auth concepts, contract/payload validation).
• UI automation best practices for stable smoke/regression tests and low flakiness.
• CI/CD and Git fluency: running automated suites in pipelines, interpreting results, and collaborating via PR/MR.
• Comfortable working in Agile teams and tools such as Jira and Confluence.