Remote QA Automation Engineer: Build Test Framework

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

Medical insurance

Mentorship program

Work-life balance

Job summary

Smart Working is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to own quality across a large, long-term health platform. You will build the automated test framework hands-on, define expected behaviour, and improve reliability from the existing baseline.

Collaborate with a four-person engineering team, author English-readable Cucumber scenarios, automate in JavaScript/TypeScript using a page object model, and validate data with SQL to ensure robust releases.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of QA or test automation, hands-on with TypeScript or JavaScript.
• 2+ years of BDD test authoring with Cucumber and Gherkin.
• 3+ years of web UI test automation using a page object model, preferably with Playwright.
• 2+ years of end-to-end QA ownership, including defining, documenting, building and maintaining tests.
• 3+ years of requirements analysis and stakeholder communication.
• 2+ years of SQL querying to validate database state, using MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• 3+ years of exploratory testing and precise multi-step defect reproduction.
• Ability to drive automation and own the build with limited direction.
• Hands-on JavaScript or TypeScript automation coding is non-negotiable.

Responsibilities

• Own the quality process end to end and build the automated test framework hands-on.
• Understand how a large, roughly 10-year, multi-repo system works and how it should work from client, end-user and internal operations perspectives.
• Ask the right questions and document expected behaviour where inherited documentation is partly out of date.
• Author English-readable scenarios in Cucumber and Gherkin.
• Build automation in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Drive the UI through a page object model.
• Add data-test-ids to React code where missing.
• Validate correct database state using SQL.
• Maintain the automated tests as new features arrive.
• Feed into requirements upfront as new features are planned.
• Flag compliance, regulatory and security implications.
• Run exploratory testing to identify where the product behaves incorrectly.
• Improve reliability and enable faster, safer releases through automation.
• Reproduce multi-step defects precisely and identify edge cases.
• Build a repeatable, documented QA process from an unreliable baseline.
• Work out how the system should behave across multiple user perspectives and how it might break.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

BDD with Cucumber

Gherkin

Playwright

Page Object Model

SQL querying

Exploratory testing

QA ownership

Tools

Playwright

Cucumber

Gherkin

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Smart Working is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to own quality across a large, long-term health platform. You will build the automated test framework hands-on, define expected behaviour, and improve reliability from the existing baseline.

Collaborate with a four-person engineering team, author English-readable Cucumber scenarios, automate in JavaScript/TypeScript using a page object model, and validate data with SQL to ensure robust releases.