Remote QA Automation Engineer II (SaaS)

Milliman, Inc; Town of Brookfield (WI); Remote; USD 79,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

401(k) Plan

PTO and Holidays

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Job summary

Milliman IntelliScript seeks a Software QA/Tester to design and execute tests for web and API features, validate data with SQL, and collaborate across Agile teams. You will review requirements, write clear defect reports, and contribute to automation efforts using tools like Playwright or Selenium.

Remote work available with occasional travel to Brookfield, WI as needed. The role emphasizes strong analytical skills, hands-on testing of SaaS applications, and a commitment to high quality testing

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software quality assurance or software testing experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience manually testing web-based applications.
• Experience testing APIs with Postman or a similar tool.
• Ability to create effective test cases, test scenarios, and exploratory test charters from requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with functional, integration, regression, negative, and end-to‑end testing techniques.
• Experience documenting and managing defects in Jira or a similar tracking tool.
• Working knowledge of SQL for test data setup, backend validation, or defect investigation.
• Experience using generative AI tools to support software testing activities—such as test case development, exploratory testing, test data creation, defect investigation, or test automation—with appropriate review and validation of AI-generated outputs.
• Experience working within an Agile or Scrum delivery team.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, maintain, and execute test cases for new features, enhancements, integrations, and regression coverage.
• Perform functional, exploratory, integration, smoke, regression, and end-to-end testing across web-based user interfaces and APIs.
• Validate user workflows, business rules, field behavior, navigation, error handling, usability, and cross-browser behavior.
• Test REST APIs using tools such as Postman, including requests, responses, status codes, payloads, authentication, validation rules, and negative scenarios.
• Use SQL and available logs or diagnostic information to validate data and investigate issues across application layers.
• Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs to identify gaps, edge cases, dependencies, and quality risks before development is complete.
• Create clear, reproducible defect reports that include expected and actual results, supporting evidence, business impact, and appropriate severity.
• Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot issues, verify fixes, and determine appropriate regression coverage.
• Maintain test cases, execution results, and traceability in Zephyr or a comparable test management tool.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Provide concise input on release readiness, unresolved risks, and recommended follow-up testing.
• Identify stable, repetitive test scenarios that are strong candidates for automation.
• Execute and review automated test suites where applicable, troubleshoot basic failures, and partner with automation-focused engineers to improve coverage.
• Contribute to UI or API automation over time based on experience, interest, and team priorities.

Skills

QA experience

Manual testing

API testing

Test case design

Testing techniques

Jira

SQL

AI testing tools

Agile

Tools

Zephyr

TestRail

Playwright

Selenium

RestSharp

CI/CD

Job description

Milliman IntelliScript seeks a Software QA/Tester to design and execute tests for web and API features, validate data with SQL, and collaborate across Agile teams. You will review requirements, write clear defect reports, and contribute to automation efforts using tools like Playwright or Selenium.

Remote work available with occasional travel to Brookfield, WI as needed. The role emphasizes strong analytical skills, hands-on testing of SaaS applications, and a commitment to high quality testing