Senior Java QA Automation Engineer | API & CI/CD

Beacon Hill; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill is seeking a Software QA Automation Engineer to ensure quality, reliability, and performance across web apps, APIs, messaging systems, and production environments. You will implement Java-based automation, CI/CD practices, and API testing within an Agile setting, collaborating with developers, product owners, and release teams.

The ideal candidate brings 7+ years in software QA, 5+ years in Java development, and experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, Spring Boot, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of software quality assurance experience, preferably within Agile development environments.
• 5+ years of hands-on Java development and automation experience.
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks and tools including Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cucumber/Gherkin, Java.
• Experience with API test automation using Spring Boot, Rest Assured, GraphQL, Postman.
• Experience testing messaging and event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ (AMQ) and other JMS-based platforms.
• Experience with source control systems including Git.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes, preferably Jenkins.
• Experience creating SQL queries for test data preparation, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience using defect management tools such as JIRA.
• Strong manual testing and exploratory testing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in development of user stories by defining testing strategies and automation opportunities.
• Design, document, and maintain test strategies, plans, and scenarios.
• Develop and execute automated and manual testing across multiple levels (unit to platform testing).
• Build, enhance, and maintain automated test frameworks and suites.
• Execute automated tests across environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze results, troubleshoot failures, and identify root causes.
• Partner with developers to ensure automation-ready applications.
• Perform code reviews to promote quality and reusability.
• Create detailed defect reports and validate fixes through regression and automated testing.
• Present results and quality metrics to support production release approvals.
• Coordinate with QA, Development, Operations, NOC, and Release teams.
• Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and additional coverage opportunities.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements of QA automation frameworks and best practices.
• Participate in Major Incident reviews to identify preventative automated testing opportunities.

Skills

QA Automation

Agile/Scrum

Test strategy

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT or related field

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Playwright

Cucumber/Gherkin

Java

Spring Boot

Rest Assured

GraphQL

Postman

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ (AMQ)

Git

Jenkins

JIRA

Job description

Beacon Hill is seeking a Software QA Automation Engineer to ensure quality, reliability, and performance across web apps, APIs, messaging systems, and production environments. You will implement Java-based automation, CI/CD practices, and API testing within an Agile setting, collaborating with developers, product owners, and release teams.

The ideal candidate brings 7+ years in software QA, 5+ years in Java development, and experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, Spring Boot, and