Quality and Test Automation Engineer

Ellkay, Llc; Indiana; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

ELLKAY is seeking a Quality and Test Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated quality solutions across services, interfaces, data flows, and user experiences. You will join an Agile engineering team and combine exploratory testing with code-based automation to deliver fast, reliable feedback throughout the delivery lifecycle.

The role focuses on API, UI, and data automation, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring test coverage across multiple layers, including

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 3+ years in software quality engineering or software development with hands-on test automation experience.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language and experience with UI and API automation, SQL, Git, build tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of HTTP, REST or event-driven integrations, databases, application architecture, and debugging techniques.
• Ability to design clear test scenarios, write maintainable code, and balance speed with coverage.
• Strong collaboration, ownership, attention to detail, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into automated tests and exploratory testing.
• Develop automation for APIs, services, web, interfaces, databases, events, and end-to-end workflows.
• Apply test pyramid and risk-based coverage, focusing on stable checks over end-to-end tests.
• Create reusable test utilities, fixtures, and mocks to improve speed and maintainability.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and diagnose failures.
• Validate positive, negative, boundary, error-handling, compatibility, accessibility scenarios.
• Prepare and manage test data with privacy, security, masking, and environment requirements.
• Review stories, designs, code changes, and logs to identify testability gaps.
• Document defects with evidence and reproducible conditions; work with developers on root-cause analysis.
• Participate in refinement and release-readiness activities as a full team member.
• Monitor automation results and communicate coverage and readiness.

Skills

Automation testing

UI automation

API automation

SQL

Git

CI/CD

Programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent

Job description

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Quality and Test Automation Engineer

Engineering Shared Services Full Time IN

Job Description

The Quality Engineer designs, develops, and maintains automated quality solutions that provide fast, reliable feedback throughout the delivery lifecycle. Working as an embedded member of an Agile engineering team, this role combines exploratory testing with code-based automation across services, interfaces, data flows, and user experiences.

• Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into maintainable automated tests and focused exploratory testing for functional and integration risks.
• Develop automation for APIs, services, web, interfaces, databases, events, and end-to-end business workflows using approved frameworks and coding standards.
• Apply the test pyramid and risk-based coverage principles, emphasizing stable unit-adjacent, component, API, contract, and integration checks over brittle end-to-end tests.
• Create reusable test utilities, fixtures, page or service objects, data builders, mocks, and service-virtualization assets that improve delivery speed and maintainability.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; diagnose failures, remove flaky behaviour, and keep execution time and feedback quality within team targets.
• Validate positive, negative, boundary, error-handling, authorization, compatibility, accessibility, and recovery scenarios appropriate to the product risk.
• Prepare and manage test data in accordance with privacy, security, masking, retention, and environment-control requirements.
• Review stories, designs, code changes, logs, and telemetry to identify testability gaps and defects before release.
• Document defects with clear evidence, business impact, and reproducible conditions; partner with developers on root-cause analysis and verification.
• Participate in refinement, planning, design discussions, code reviews, quality reviews, and release-readiness activities as a full engineering team member.
• Monitor automation results and quality signals; communicate coverage, failures, residual risk, and readiness without relying on pass-rate alone.
• Contribute improvements to team frameworks, standards, documentation, and engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 3+ years in software quality engineering or software development with meaningful hands‑on test automation experience.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language and experience with UI and API automation, SQL, Git, build tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of HTTP, REST or event‑driven integrations, databases, application architecture, and common debugging techniques.
• Ability to design clear test scenarios, write maintainable code, analyze failures across system layers, and balance speed with coverage.
• Strong collaboration, ownership, attention to detail, and written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, contract testing, performance testing, accessibility testing, or observability tools.
• Exposure to healthcare systems, regulated data, interoperability, or privacy‑conscious test‑data management.

Additional Information

ELLKAY is committed to fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment that supports innovation, teamwork, and professional growth. Most roles are designed to operate from our office locations to encourage effective collaboration and engagement across teams. Any alternative work arrangements may be considered at the company’s discretion based on role requirements and business needs. For more information about our company, please visit www.ELLKAY.com. ELLKAY is a Smoke-Free Workplace.

ELLKAY, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.