Senior QA Engineer - Automation & Cypress Expert

cultivate; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Paid parental leave

Development opportunities

Stock options

Job summary

cultivate is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to design, implement, and optimize test strategies for a remote-first tech client in New York. The role emphasizes Cypress.io and Selenium automation, REST API testing, and aggressive quality metrics to support production releases.

You will work within an Agile/Scrum team, drive automation across CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to product quality through robust test data, live links to projects, and a focus on scalable, high-quality

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in QA and Automation.
• 3–5 years experience with extreme programming.
• Automation experience in Cypress.io or Selenium.
• Experience with JavaScript or Python.
• Exposure to BDD principles and REST APIs.
• Understanding of databases, sessions and tokens.
• Proven track record shipping applications to production.
• Scrum framework with Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Designing and writing test cases.
• Identifying risks and disseminating information about the quality of the product.
• Automating test cases using Cypress.io and connecting the test suites to the CI/CD pipeline ensuring continuous quality assurance.
• Defining and implementing quality metrics and record QA artifacts.
• Reviewing solutions implemented by developers and identifying issues in them before implementation.
• Planning and executing testing cycles, setting up test data and providing quality reports.
• Providing input to improve the technology, architecture and infrastructure of the product.

Skills

QA Automation

Cypress.io

Selenium

JavaScript

Python

REST APIs

BDD principles

Agile / Scrum

Tools

Cypress.io

Selenium

Job description

cultivate is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to design, implement, and optimize test strategies for a remote-first tech client in New York. The role emphasizes Cypress.io and Selenium automation, REST API testing, and aggressive quality metrics to support production releases.

You will work within an Agile/Scrum team, drive automation across CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to product quality through robust test data, live links to projects, and a focus on scalable, high-quality