QA Automation Engineer: CI/CD & API Testing

Wilson Elser - Business & Legal Professionals; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Generous PTO

Corporate discounts

Job summary

Wilson Elser is seeking a seasoned Software QA Engineer to design, build, and maintain a scalable automation framework spanning UI, API, and integration testing. The role embeds quality gates directly into CI/CD pipelines and ensures new features meet acceptance criteria across environments.

You will design reusable test plans, execute functional, regression, and end-to-end tests, and collaborate with engineering, data analytics, and product teams to drive quality and release readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software QA or test engineering.
• Experience designing and executing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test cases.
• Proficient with Jest, K6, Playwright, Selenium, Postman; familiar with C#, Java, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute reusable automated test plans for software applications, including functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, and end-to-end validation of user workflows.
• Verify that new features meet acceptance criteria, operate reliably across supported environments, and do not introduce regressions into existing functionality as efficiently as possible.
• Integrate automated checks into CI/CD pipelines where appropriate, including regression tests, workflow-level tests,
• Maintain clear test plans, test cases, defect documentation, quality criteria, and release readiness artifacts.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, acceptance-criteria definition, and release reviews as the quality advocate for software functionality development and testing processes.

Skills

Quality assurance

Regression testing

End-to-end testing

CI/CD integration

Automation design

Education

B.S. in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jest

K6

Playwright

Selenium

Postman

Job description

Wilson Elser is seeking a seasoned Software QA Engineer to design, build, and maintain a scalable automation framework spanning UI, API, and integration testing. The role embeds quality gates directly into CI/CD pipelines and ensures new features meet acceptance criteria across environments.

You will design reusable test plans, execute functional, regression, and end-to-end tests, and collaborate with engineering, data analytics, and product teams to drive quality and release readiness.