Remote QA Automation Engineer II — SaaS & API Testing

Milliman, Inc; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 91,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with match

Discretionary bonus program

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Milliman IntelliScript is seeking an experienced Software Quality Assurance professional to design, execute, and automate tests for web and API features. You will validate complex workflows, work across data layers with SQL, and maintain comprehensive defect reports in a collaborative Agile environment.

Open to remote work in the US with occasional travel for meetings and events. Candidates should have 2+ years in QA, strong Postman/Jira experience, and a passion for delivering high-quality SaaS

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software quality assurance or software testing experience.
• 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.

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

Manual testing

Web testing

API testing

SQL basics

QA tooling

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Postman

Jira

Zephyr

TestRail

Playwright

Selenium

Job description

Milliman IntelliScript is seeking an experienced Software Quality Assurance professional to design, execute, and automate tests for web and API features. You will validate complex workflows, work across data layers with SQL, and maintain comprehensive defect reports in a collaborative Agile environment.

Open to remote work in the US with occasional travel for meetings and events. Candidates should have 2+ years in QA, strong Postman/Jira experience, and a passion for delivering high-quality SaaS