Remote Automation QA Engineer

Empower Retirement, LLC; Kansas; Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Casual dress

Job summary

Empower Retirement, LLC in the United States is seeking an Automation Quality Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for UI, API, and data pipelines. You will work with cross-functional teams to improve test coverage and ensure applications meet business and technical requirements.

The role requires 2–4 years of testing experience with automation, Java proficiency, and experience with Selenium, Karate, JUnit, TestNG, Git, Jira/Zephyr, and AWS-based data validation.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of testing experience with 1 to 2 years of automation testing experience.
• Proficiency in Java programming language core concepts.
• Experience with automation testing tools such as Selenium, Karate, JUnit, and TestNG, along with debugging skills.
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git.
• Knowledge of BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.
• Experience validating ETL tables/data using SQL.
• Knowledge of AWS service for testing batch jobs: S3, EMR, Step function, Lambda, CloudWatch.
• Experience in UI and API functional testing.
• Experience using JIRA and Zephyr management tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain moderately complex automated test scripts for UI and API, and data/ETL validations.
• Execute moderately complex automated test cases and report test results.
• Identify, document, and track software defects through resolution using defect tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Create clear and concise documentation for test cases, test results using Zephyr.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to understand application functionality and testing requirements.
• Update existing automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver in IntelliJ to align with application changes and enhancements.
• Follow automation best practices and recommend improvements.
• Provide guidance to associate automation quality engineers to support skill development and understanding of automation.
• Perform manual testing when needed.
• Validate ETL tables and data pipelines using SQL.
• Perform data reconciliation.
• Test and monitor AWS batch jobs on EMR, Step function, and Lambda.
• Verify job execution status and validate S3 output files and Redshift loads.

Skills

Java

Automation testing

Selenium

JUnit/TestNG

Cucumber

Git

Jira/Zephyr

AWS

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Karate

Jenkins

IntelliJ

Git

Cucumber

Job description

Empower Retirement, LLC in the United States is seeking an Automation Quality Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for UI, API, and data pipelines. You will work with cross-functional teams to improve test coverage and ensure applications meet business and technical requirements.

The role requires 2–4 years of testing experience with automation, Java proficiency, and experience with Selenium, Karate, JUnit, TestNG, Git, Jira/Zephyr, and AWS-based data validation.