QA Automation Engineer

Cordova; Omaha (NE); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to drive quality engineering principles throughout the Agile development lifecycle. The role involves designing and implementing robust automated testing solutions while collaborating within teams to ensure high-quality software delivery. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree and extensive experience with automation tools and programming languages.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience using UI and API automation tools.
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript and Java programming.
• Understanding of CI/CD practices using Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Embed Quality Engineering across Agile lifecycle.
• Design, build, and maintain automated testing solutions.
• Collaborate with delivery team on CI/CD pipeline.

Skills

Automation Tools

Quality Engineering

JavaScript

Java

API Testing

CI/CD Practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Selenium

Postman

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Job description

Position Title:Test Automation Engineer

Employee Status: Full Time

Location: Remote

Purpose:

The purpose of this role is to embed Quality Engineering principles across the entire Agile development lifecycle, driving a "Quality/Automation as a Team" mindset. This position will be critical in designing, building, and maintaining robust automated testing solutions, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software, and enabling continuous integration and continuous deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Apply Quality Engineering principles throughout the Agile lifecycle

• Drive ‘Quality / Automation as a Team Mindset’ within the team

• Exhibit domain knowledge and product expertise for supported applications

• Decompose stories/business requirements into test cases that clearly articulate test objectives, steps, and expected results

• Estimate, prioritize, plan, coordinate/perform and document results of test execution

• Report, track, and retest defects/bugs prior to release

• Ability to build, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain effective test automation solutions with minimal guidance and direction

• Participate in and conduct regular test case peer reviews and automation code reviews

• Collaborate with their delivery team to build automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline

• Analyze and understand the current technology architecture, system interdependencies and application stacks

• Exhibit initiative for self-learning of new technical skills and tools to grow in role

• Can work independently researching, solving, and programming automation solutions

• Helps cross-train and mentor new team members

Work Requirements, Experience, Education, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience and/or certifications.

• 3+ years’ experience using UI and/or API automation tools - examples: Test Complete, Playwright, Selenium / Appium, IntelliJ, Cypress, Postman, Swagger, GitLab, Postman, Rest Assured, SOAP UI, Maven and Docker.

• 3+ years hands-on experience programming/scripting with JavaScript and/or Java

• o Additional scripting experience a plus: C#, PowerShell, SQL, XML.

• 3+ Experience executing all levels of testing (System, Integration, Regression, Performance, Database, and Cross Browser Platform)

• 3+ Experience in web, microservices, and database automation.

• 3+ Experience with Git as a version control system, in conjunction with solutions such as Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab.

• Experience working with automation frameworks.

• Some basic understanding of CI/CD practices using Jenkins and/or Gitlab.

• Experience planning, developing, documenting, and maintaining a regression testing strategy.

• Experience in automating web services APIs.