QA Automation Engineer: UI & API Testing

PTMA Financial Solutions; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

PTMA Financial Solutions in Naperville, IL seeks a QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of its web applications across UI, API, and data layers. The role focuses on designing robust automation strategies, building and maintaining scalable test suites, and validating data integrity with SQL queries.

You will collaborate with developers and architects in a fast-paced environment, writing scripts in Python or TypeScript/JavaScript and contributing to continuous

Qualifications

• Experience with test automation frameworks and scripting (Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript).
• Intermediate SQL Server / PostgreSQL database skills.
• Knowledge of API testing and performance testing.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills; collaborative in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated test suites for UI, API, and data layers.
• Write automated test scripts using Playwright or similar frameworks with data-driven tests.
• Define test plans, acceptance criteria, and regression coverage with stakeholders.
• Build reusable utilities, page objects, and libraries to improve maintainability.
• Validate API responses and write scripts to support load/perf testing (k6).
• Execute SQL queries to validate data integrity and support root-cause analysis.
• Analyze test results, triage failures, and identify flaky tests and risks.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

API testing

SQL

UI automation

CI/CD

Test planning

Communication

Problem solving

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/Management/CS/Math/Statistics/Systems Analysis or related field

2-3 years of professional work experience

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Git

k6

Job description

PTMA Financial Solutions in Naperville, IL seeks a QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of its web applications across UI, API, and data layers. The role focuses on designing robust automation strategies, building and maintaining scalable test suites, and validating data integrity with SQL queries.

You will collaborate with developers and architects in a fast-paced environment, writing scripts in Python or TypeScript/JavaScript and contributing to continuous