Quality Assurance Engineer - Automation & API Testing

Delta Dental Ins.; Rancho Cordova (CA); On-site; USD 71,400 - 149,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay

401(k) with matching

Medical & pharmacy benefits

Dental and vision benefits

Paid time off & holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption assistance

Volunteer opportunities

Employee discount program

Job summary

Delta Dental Ins. is seeking a Quality Engineer in California to join a cross-functional team focused on usability, functionality and production quality. The role emphasizes creating test plans, executing test cases and maintaining testing programs within SDLC/Agile processes.

Strong automation and API testing skills are desired to improve efficiency and reliability of products and services. The team values collaboration, structured testing, and clear defect tracking to support Delta Dental’s

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS or related field.
• Knowledge of QA principles, concepts, systems, industry practices, and standards.
• Experience in software quality assurance techniques and test automation.
• Hands-on with test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, TestNG, JUnit.
• Experience testing APIs and services using Postman or SoapUI; CI/CD integration.

Responsibilities

• Reviews requirements and specifications and provides feedback.
• Creates detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Prioritizes, plans and coordinates testing activities.
• Creates and executes test cases and automation scripts.
• Identifies and documents defects thoroughly.
• Performs thorough regression testing.
• Installs, configures and maintains testing programs.
• Applies test standards and testing processes (SDLC, Agile).
• Investigates and documents causes of routine defects.
• Tracks QA metrics and creates test summary reports.

Skills

QA principles

Test automation

Selenium

CI/CD

API testing

Postman

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Git

SQL

Agile/Scrum

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Selenium

TestNG

JUnit

Postman

SoapUI

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Git

Job description

Delta Dental Ins. is seeking a Quality Engineer in California to join a cross-functional team focused on usability, functionality and production quality. The role emphasizes creating test plans, executing test cases and maintaining testing programs within SDLC/Agile processes.

Strong automation and API testing skills are desired to improve efficiency and reliability of products and services. The team values collaboration, structured testing, and clear defect tracking to support Delta Dental’s