Automation QA Engineer – AI-Driven Testing & Security

Halborn Inc; Oregon (WI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Halborn Inc is seeking a QA Engineer who shifts from manual testing to robust automation across internal platforms and client-facing products. You will own test strategy and build fast, reliable suites for UI, API, and data layers.

Responsibilities include designing end-to-end automation, leveraging AI-assisted tooling, and integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to ensure quick feedback and high reliability.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of QA engineering, SDET, or test automation with shift from manual to automated coverage.
• Hands-on with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, pytest or equivalent automation frameworks.
• Practical API testing experience including REST/GraphQL and contract testing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Daily use of AI coding assistants and LLM tooling in workflows with validation.
• Comfort reading application code and testing with automation rather than manual-only processes.
• Excellent written bug reports/test plans in distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy for internal engineering platforms and client-facing products, covering unit, integration, end-to-end and regression suites.
• Design, build, and maintain automated UI, API, and data-layer tests that are fast and reliable.
• Leverage LLM-assisted tooling to accelerate test authoring and generate edge cases from specs.
• Implement quality gates in CI/CD to keep feedback loops short.
• Automate release readiness checks, environment setup, test data generation, and smoke tests.
• Reproduce and clearly document defects with reproducible steps and expected vs. actual results.
• Collaborate with security engineers to incorporate regression checks into pipelines.
• Conduct performance, load, and reliability testing on sensitive data services.
• Define and report key quality metrics and influence release decisions.

Skills

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

pytest

API testing

CI/CD

AI tooling

Git

Containers

Bug reports

Test plans

Autonomy

Tools

Foundry

Hardhat

Burp Suite

k6

Locust

JMeter

Job description

Halborn Inc is seeking a QA Engineer who shifts from manual testing to robust automation across internal platforms and client-facing products. You will own test strategy and build fast, reliable suites for UI, API, and data layers.

Responsibilities include designing end-to-end automation, leveraging AI-assisted tooling, and integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to ensure quick feedback and high reliability.