Senior QA & API Test Automation Analyst (Hybrid NJ)

CAI; Trenton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Business Analyst / QA – Test Automation in New Jersey to lead cross-platform regression testing at the API and workflow layers. The role focuses on building automated tests and a reconciliation harness to ensure the new system matches the legacy output, supporting a New Jersey state agency initiative.

This is a full-time contract with hybrid work in Trenton, NJ. The candidate will have 5+ years in QA with strong test automation, API testing, data management, and experience with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• 5+ years of quality assurance experience including 3+ years of test automation.
• 5 years with test automation against APIs and event-driven services.
• 5 years experience building a reconciliation harness that compares outputs of two systems processing the same inputs.
• 5 years experience with test data management.
• 5+ years proficiency with test management and defect tracking tools such as Jira.

Responsibilities

• Define and run cross-platform regression testing at the API and workflow layers.
• Maintain regression suites as the system changes across releases.
• Build automated tests against APIs and event-driven services.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and report results to delivery teams.
• Build a reconciliation harness that compares the outputs of two systems processing the same inputs.
• Analyze and categorize discrepancies and route them to the right team for resolution.
• Manage test data across environments working with the Data Engineer on masked data sets.
• Source expected results only from production output and reject machine-generated expected values.
• Work with the Rules Verification Business Analyst to keep test oracles traceable to their origin.
• Log, track and verify defects through resolution.
• Report test coverage pass rates and reconciliation results to the Project Manager

Skills

Quality assurance

Test automation

APIs testing

Event-driven tests

Test data management

Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Job description

CAI is seeking a Business Analyst / QA – Test Automation in New Jersey to lead cross-platform regression testing at the API and workflow layers. The role focuses on building automated tests and a reconciliation harness to ensure the new system matches the legacy output, supporting a New Jersey state agency initiative.

This is a full-time contract with hybrid work in Trenton, NJ. The candidate will have 5+ years in QA with strong test automation, API testing, data management, and experience with