Senior QA Automation Engineer – SQL, API & Data Testing 3673421

Axiom Path; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom Path is recruiting a Quality Engineer to join a high-performing team. You will support and validate multiple business applications in a fast-moving Agile environment, with a strong emphasis on data validation, API testing, and automation.

The role involves working across a diverse portfolio, contributing to established QA practices, and maturing automation frameworks. You will own test artifacts, participate in refinement, and thrive in a collaborative setting.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Quality Assurance experience in technical software environments.
• Strong SQL skills including joins, multi-table queries, and data validation.
• 3+ years in data integration, ETL, or database testing.
• 3+ years API testing experience and understanding of authentication, payloads, and responses.
• Experience creating automated test scripts and building reusable testing components.
• Familiarity with test frameworks, CI/CD, and automation execution in pipelines.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar test-management platforms.
• Ability to quickly learn existing frameworks and maintain QA artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated and manual test cases across multiple enterprise applications.
• Translate requirements into SQL queries to validate data and application behavior.
• Perform DB/ETL validation using complex SQL and multi-table joins.
• Test APIs: definitions, authentication, parameters, payloads, and responses.
• Create automated test scripts and reusable components within existing frameworks.
• Execute automated tests through CI/CD pipelines and fit tests into the delivery lifecycle.
• Maintain QA artifacts and test cases within Azure DevOps.
• Adapt to multiple applications and user stories within an Agile sprint.

Skills

SQL

API testing

Data validation

Automation scripting

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

QA methodologies

Tools

QuerySurge

SOAtest

UiPath

C#

Job description

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join an enterprise technology team responsible for supporting and validating multiple business applications in a fast-moving Agile environment. This Quality Engineering group combines manual testing, data validation, API testing, and automation to ensure applications and underlying data meet established quality standards.

Rather than supporting a single product, this role works across a diverse portfolio of applications and user stories. The environment is collaborative and provides structured knowledge transfer, established QA practices, and mature automation frameworks while expecting engineers to take ownership, learn quickly, and independently apply those standards.

What's In Store For You

• Hybrid environment with four days per week onsite.
• Approximately six-month contract engagement, with periodic extension reviews based on business needs.
• Exposure to multiple applications, testing disciplines, and enterprise QA frameworks.
• Opportunity to deepen experience with data automation, API testing, UI automation, and CI/CD-integrated testing.
• Opportunity to work with technologies such as Azure DevOps, data-validation platforms, API automation tools, UI automation solutions, and potentially AI-assisted development tools.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Develop and maintain automated and manual test cases across multiple enterprise applications.
• Translate business requirements and source-to-target mapping documents into SQL queries used to validate application and data behavior.
• Perform database and ETL validation using complex SQL, including joins across multiple tables.
• Test APIs by evaluating definitions, authentication mechanisms, parameters, payloads, responses, and underlying database results.
• Develop automation scripts and reusable testing components within established automation frameworks.
• Execute automated testing through CI/CD pipelines and understand how automated tests fit into the broader delivery lifecycle.
• Maintain accurate, consistently structured test cases and QA artifacts within Azure DevOps.
• Move effectively between different applications and types of user stories within the same Agile sprint.
• Learn existing frameworks, processes, and internal tools quickly while applying established QA standards.
• Participate in Agile refinement, testing, troubleshooting, peer reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Do You Bring Proven Success in Quality Engineering and Test Automation?

• 3-5 years of Quality Assurance experience within technical software environments.
• Strong hands-on SQL expertise, including joins, multi-table queries, database investigation, and source-to-target validation.
• At least 3 years of data integration, ETL, or database testing experience.
• At least 3 years of API testing experience.
• Strong understanding of API authentication, payloads, parameters, responses, and database validation.
• Hands-on experience creating automated test scripts, rather than solely executing existing automation.
• Understanding of test automation frameworks, reusable components, and automated execution through CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with Azure DevOps or comparable test-management and delivery platforms.
• Ability to understand an established testing framework and become productive without continuous hand-holding.
• Strong attention to documentation, QA standards, test-case structure, and process consistency.
• Ability to independently investigate unfamiliar systems and ask focused questions when additional guidance is needed.
• Comfortable shifting between multiple applications, datasets, and testing priorities within an Agile sprint.
• Collaborative, adaptable, curious, and accountable working style.
• Experience with QuerySurge, SOAtest, UiPath, C#, Azure DevOps pipelines, or similar technologies is advantageous.
• Experience building or enhancing automation frameworks is highly desirable.
• Exposure to GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted development/testing technologies is a plus.