Senior API & Kafka Automation QA Engineer

Energy Jobline ZR; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

System One, including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., seeks a Sr. Quality Engineer to design automated API tests and drive testing for Kafka-based systems across multiple sites in the US. The role emphasizes building robust test plans and collaborating with product teams to define acceptance criteria.

You will contribute to regression testing, log defects, and implement efficient automation strategies in an Agile environment. Experience with Selenium, Kafka, and SQL ETL testing is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as automation quality engineer in an Agile team.
• 4+ years of test automation using Selenium with JAVA (Mandatory).
• 3+ years testing within Kafka streaming platform (Mandatory).
• 4+ years developing, maintaining & executing automated regression tests for web and backend apps.
• 3+ years writing SQL scripts and ETL testing.
• Hands on with Jira / Xray / Confluence.
• Experience with BDD frameworks.
• Experience managing code repositories using Azure DevOps, Git or SVN.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high quality automated API tests for applications.
• Develop and manage software test plans and traceability.
• Write high quality regression test plans for application under validation.
• Provide manual and automation testing estimates during discovery and sprint planning.
• Investigate automated and manual test failures and update scripts as needed.
• Replicate prod defects in lower environments and log defects for resolution.
• Provide issue walkthroughs to developers and engineers.
• Automate repetitive validation tasks in API/browser based test suites.
• Report testing metrics to QA manager and stakeholders.
• Partner with product teams to design and develop acceptance criteria.
• Report progress, test metrics and results to stakeholders.
• Perform all activities involved in the software testing lifecycle.

Skills

Automation testing

BDD frameworks

SQL

ETL Testing

API testing

Tools

Selenium with Java

SOAP UI

Kafka

Azure DevOps

Git

SVN

Jira

Xray

Confluence

Job description

System One, including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., seeks a Sr. Quality Engineer to design automated API tests and drive testing for Kafka-based systems across multiple sites in the US. The role emphasizes building robust test plans and collaborating with product teams to define acceptance criteria.

You will contribute to regression testing, log defects, and implement efficient automation strategies in an Agile environment. Experience with Selenium, Kafka, and SQL ETL testing is essential.