Lead Automation QA Engineer - CI/CD & API Testing

Blackstone eIT; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone eIT is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks spanning UI, API, and mobile testing. You will write and execute automated tests with Selenium, Cypress, Appium, and related tools, performing hands-on testing to ensure release readiness across functional, regression, and performance domains.

The role emphasizes API/backend testing, root cause analysis of production issues, and embedding non-functional testing into delivery cycles, while

Qualifications

• Design Consistency: Adherence to design systems and usability standards across products.
• User Satisfaction: Improvement in customer feedback, usability scores, or NPS.
• Delivery: % of design deliverables completed on time and integrated into product releases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks (UI, API, and mobile).
• Write and execute complex automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Appium, or similar.
• Perform hands-on testing (functional, regression, integration, performance, security) when needed to ensure release readiness.
• Conduct API and backend testing (Postman, RestAssured, SQL queries, stored procedures validation).
• Investigate production issues, perform root cause analysis, and propose permanent fixes.
• Optimize test execution pipelines within CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI).
• Ensure non-functional testing (performance, load, security) is embedded into delivery cycles.
• Develop reusable test components and share them across teams.
• Act as the technical escalation point for QA team members, guiding them in troubleshooting and debugging.

Skills

Automation testing

CI/CD

API testing

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Appium

Job description

Blackstone eIT is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks spanning UI, API, and mobile testing. You will write and execute automated tests with Selenium, Cypress, Appium, and related tools, performing hands-on testing to ensure release readiness across functional, regression, and performance domains.

The role emphasizes API/backend testing, root cause analysis of production issues, and embedding non-functional testing into delivery cycles, while