Senior QA Test Engineer - Automation & API

Scigon Solutions, Inc.; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 45,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Scigon Solutions, Inc. is seeking a QA Test Engineer for POS systems in the United States. The role emphasizes automated and manual testing, API automation, and test strategy development to ensure quality across high-traffic POS applications.

You will drive test plans, implement automated suites, and collaborate with development and release teams to validate software functionality for production releases. Strong Java and CI/CD skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of industry experience, preferably in an Agile development environment.
• 5+ years of Java coding experience.
• Experience with automated testing tools: Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, and Java.
• Experience in API automation testing using Java Spring Boot 2, RestAssured, GraphQL, or Postman.
• Experience with JMS-driven messaging protocols such as AMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.
• Knowledge of MS Entity Framework and/or Spring JDBC.
• Experience with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools, preferably Jenkins/Jenkins X.
• Must have experience with source control/versioning tools and processes, including Git and Stash.
• Experience writing SQL queries for test data preparation and data validation.
• Nice to have: Experience querying Couchbase databases.
• Experience with databases, various data formats, and related testing technologies. SQL Server and SSMS are a plus.
• Experience using Splunk analytics to validate technical fixes and application code/configuration updates.
• Experience with defect tracking tools such as Jira.
• Experience in manual testing.
• POS (Point of Sale) system experience is a plus.
• Nice to have: Experience with payment gateways and payment terminals.
• Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployment/operations.

Responsibilities

• Participate in developing and documenting user stories by providing test strategies and automation estimates.
• Develop, document, and maintain test strategies and test scenarios.
• Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability of test automation artifacts.
• Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to identify technical solutions for test automation.
• Build and manage automated test suites, ensuring execution across multiple environments, CI/CD pipelines, and NOC team usage.
• Regularly execute, maintain, and enhance automated test suites, analyzing results to identify root causes of failures.
• Create defects for issues found, provide appropriate documentation, ensure resolution, validate fixes, and update automation as needed.
• Present testing results to support sign-off on software functionality for production releases.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and release management to manage development, QA, and production software releases.
• Perform exploratory testing to understand features, discover unexpected behavior, and refine or create additional test cases.
• Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry-standard tools and methodologies.
• Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code.
• Participate in the analysis of major incidents and emergency change controls to identify opportunities for automating software quality test cases and reducing future risks.

Skills

Java coding

Test automation

Cucumber/Gherkin

Selenium WebDriver

Playwright

Postman

RestAssured

GraphQL

JMS messaging

Spring JDBC

SOA

Git & Stash

SQL queries

Jenkins

SQL Server

Splunk

Jira

Manual testing

Kubernetes

POS system experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Cucumber/Gherkin

Selenium WebDriver

Playwright

Postman

RestAssured

GraphQL

Spring Boot 2

JMS messaging

Git

Stash

Jenkins

SQL Server

Kubernetes

Splunk

Jira

Job description

Scigon Solutions, Inc. is seeking a QA Test Engineer for POS systems in the United States. The role emphasizes automated and manual testing, API automation, and test strategy development to ensure quality across high-traffic POS applications.

You will drive test plans, implement automated suites, and collaborate with development and release teams to validate software functionality for production releases. Strong Java and CI/CD skills are required.