Senior QA Automation Engineer (Java, API & CI/CD)

JRD Systems; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JRD Systems in Ann Arbor, MI seeks a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead test strategy, build automated test suites with Java, Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver, and Playwright, and collaborate with developers to improve software quality.

You will design tests across unit, integration, API, load, security, and end-to-end scenarios, participate in CI/CD pipelines, conduct code reviews, and help document test plans for production releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of industry experience in QA automation.
• 5+ years of Java coding experience.
• Experience with automated testing tools - Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium Webdriver, Playwright and Java.
• API automation testing using Java Spring Boot, RestAssured, GraphQL or Postman.
• Experience with JMS messaging protocols like AMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools – Jenkins/JenkinsX.
• Experience with source control versioning tools – Git.
• SQL queries for test data preparation and validation.
• Nice to have Couchbase querying experience.
• Experience with SQL Server and related testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Participate in developing and documenting User Stories by providing the test strategy and automation estimates.
• Develop, document, and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios.
• Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency and reusability of test automation artifacts.
• Partner with developers to ensure full test coverage and automate solutions.
• Build and manage automated test suites for CI/CD environments used by NOC teams.
• Execute and maintain automated tests, analyze failures, and identify root causes.
• Create defects with detailed repro steps and verify fixes.
• Present results to sign off on software functionality for production releases.
• Collaborate with release management to coordinate dev, QA, and production releases.
• Perform exploratory testing to refine test cases and discover hidden issues.
• Contribute to QA automation framework using industry-standard tools and approaches.
• Leverage coding standards and best practices for automated QA code.
• Analyze Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to automate quality tests to reduce outages.

Skills

Java

Cucumber/Gherkin

Selenium WebDriver

Playwright

API automation testing

SQL queries

CI/CD

Git

Jenkins

JIRA

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Selenium WebDriver

Playwright

Job description

JRD Systems in Ann Arbor, MI seeks a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead test strategy, build automated test suites with Java, Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver, and Playwright, and collaborate with developers to improve software quality.

You will design tests across unit, integration, API, load, security, and end-to-end scenarios, participate in CI/CD pipelines, conduct code reviews, and help document test plans for production releases.