Lead QA Automation Engineer – API & Frameworks

TEKsystems; United States; On-site; USD 55,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Short and long-term disability

HSA (Health Spending Account)

PTO / Time Off

Job summary

TEKsystems in Pittsburgh is seeking an experienced Quality Automation Engineer to design and maintain automated test frameworks and suites for APIs and services, expanding coverage while keeping tests deterministic and fast.

You will create reusable automation patterns, own regression health, and drive a layered testing strategy integrated into CI/CD, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners to ensure release readiness and robust test evidence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering with strong automation expertise
• Strong programming skills in Python for test automation and API testing
• Experience testing event-driven systems, data pipelines, or distributed architectures
• Hands-on Azure experience (e.g., Service Bus, Blob Storage, Azure SQL, AI Search, Azure OpenAI, DevOps)
• Experience with REST API testing, OpenAPI contracts, and integration validation
• Understanding of data quality, metadata validation, and complex system testing
• Experience testing security and compliance controls (RBAC, audit logs, data protection)
• Exposure to AI/LLM testing or prompt validation is a strong plus
• Experience in regulated environments (financial services preferred)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites for APIs and services; expand coverage while keeping tests deterministic and fast.
• Create reusable automation patterns to reduce duplication and improve maintainability.
• Own regression automation health: flake reduction, runtime optimization, and clear failure triage signals.
• Define and implement a layered test strategy aligned to change risk and payment criticality.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD and enforce quality gates for merge and promotion readiness.
• Drive defect prevention: analyze defect leakage trends and implement systemic fixes.
• Partner with engineers, architects, and BSAs/POs to clarify acceptance criteria and edge cases.
• Provide quality feedback during design and PR review cycles; promote testability and observability.
• Support release readiness by validating test evidence and coordinating with change/release processes.
• Contribute to performance and resiliency validation and ensure test failures are actionable.
• Ensure monitoring and diagnostic artifacts exist for failures (logs/metrics/traces).

Skills

Automation

Selenium

Agile

Automated testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

OpenAPI

DevOps

REST API testing

Job description

TEKsystems in Pittsburgh is seeking an experienced Quality Automation Engineer to design and maintain automated test frameworks and suites for APIs and services, expanding coverage while keeping tests deterministic and fast.

You will create reusable automation patterns, own regression health, and drive a layered testing strategy integrated into CI/CD, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners to ensure release readiness and robust test evidence.