Hybrid QA Engineer — Automation, APIs & CI/CD

CostQuest Associates, LLC; Cincinnati (OH); Híbrido; USD 80.000 - 105.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary and benefits

Bonus pay and profit sharing

Dental, Vision, Life, LTD insurance

Employee assistance program

Health savings account

Descripción de la vacante

CostQuest Associates is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure quality, reliability, and performance across software products. You will design, develop, and maintain automated tests for UI, APIs, and data workflows while supporting targeted manual testing when needed.

You will advocate quality throughout the SDLC, partner with product and development teams, and help integrate automated testing into CI/CD for faster, more reliable releases.

Formación

• 3+ years in software quality assurance, including automated testing.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining testing automation with Playwright.
• Experience testing REST APIs using tools such as Postman or REST Assured.
• Understanding of API validation, contract testing, OpenAPI specs, mocking, and schema validation.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and execute test plans, cases, and automated scripts for functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for web apps, APIs, and backend services.
• Perform API validation, contract testing, mocking, and data validation to catch issues early.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and use results to enable reliable releases.
• Conduct load, performance, and scalability testing with developers to investigate issues.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to review requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Identify, document, and track defects with established QA tools.
• Contribute to project docs and release notes.

Conocimientos

QA automation

Playwright

REST API testing

OpenAPI specifications

Jira/Xray

HTML & CSS testing

SQL (PostgreSQL)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

SDLC & Agile/Scrum

test planning & execution

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Herramientas

Playwright

Postman/REST Assured

Descripción del empleo

CostQuest Associates is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure quality, reliability, and performance across software products. You will design, develop, and maintain automated tests for UI, APIs, and data workflows while supporting targeted manual testing when needed.

You will advocate quality throughout the SDLC, partner with product and development teams, and help integrate automated testing into CI/CD for faster, more reliable releases.