QA Automation Engineer - UI & API, Hybrid NJ

Spectraforce Technologies; Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies is seeking a QA Engineer in Newark, NJ on a hybrid basis for a 12-month engagement. The role emphasizes automated testing across UI and API layers, with strong automation tooling and CI/CD integration.

The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of testing experience, familiarity with Java, Playwright, and cloud REST services. Responsibilities include designing and executing automated tests, maintaining frameworks, collaborating with product owners, and contributing to QA

Qualifications

• 3-5 years overall experience in executing and controlling testing activities.
• Experience with Claude, Java and Playwright.
• Web and mobile testing expertise; testing of RESTful microservices on the cloud.
• Understanding of cloud databases (DynamoDB, Aurora) with caching and SQL for RDBMS.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and execute automated test scripts using Selenium & Cucumber for API automation.
• Maintain and enhance existing automated test scripts and frameworks for efficiency and coverage.
• Perform UI and back-end automation testing across multiple tech domains.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support delivery.
• Stay current with industry trends and apply best practices to testing processes.
• Develop Quality Management plans and test strategies for each sprint/release.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to align requirements with test cases for manual and automated testing.
• Update QA tools with traceability, test cases, defects, and status reporting.
• Hands-on test creation and execution of user stories (Smoke, Functional, Regression) and defect logging.
• Engage Development Team in defect resolution and lead defect review calls.
• Support Non-functional QA phases (Performance, Security, Accessibility).
• Provide QA strategy guidance and risk management across scrum teams and partner BUs.
• Invest in self-development and training.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Excellent communication

Problem solving

Education

B.S./B.A. or M.A./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Selenium

TestNG

JMeter

FitNesse

Postman

SoapUI

Protractor

TypeScript

JIRA

Confluence

MIRO

ETL: DataStage

ETL: Informatica

REST API automation

Unix scripting

Jenkins

AWS: Lambda

AWS: DynamoDB

AWS: Mongo

AWS: Glue

AWS: Athena

Parquet

Job description

Spectraforce Technologies is seeking a QA Engineer in Newark, NJ on a hybrid basis for a 12-month engagement. The role emphasizes automated testing across UI and API layers, with strong automation tooling and CI/CD integration.

The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of testing experience, familiarity with Java, Playwright, and cloud REST services. Responsibilities include designing and executing automated tests, maintaining frameworks, collaborating with product owners, and contributing to QA