Software Test Automation Engineer

NextLink Group; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NextLink Group is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to design and maintain automated tests across web, API, and backend systems. You will define strategies, integrate tests into CI/CD, and collaborate with developers for regression coverage and DevSecOps.

Candidates should bring hands-on experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright and Java-based frameworks, plus strong SQL and Oracle knowledge. This role emphasizes scalable test architectures and data-driven testing approaches.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, implementing and maintaining automated tests.
• Strong background in test automation architecture and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with AI-assisted test generation and modern testing tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain automated tests for web, API and backend systems.
• Define test automation architecture, tooling and strategy; support the transition from manual to automated testing.
• Embed continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines with actionable metrics and reports.
• Partner with developers and QA on regression coverage, shift-left testing and DevSecOps.
• Evaluate emerging tooling, including Generative AI testing and performance testing.

Skills

Selenium WebDriver

Cypress

Playwright

RestAssured

Cucumber JVM

Behave

JUnit

TestNG

Java

OpenJDK 11/17/21

Education

EQF Level 7 degree with 10+ years IT experience

EQF Level 6 degree with 12+ years IT experience

Tools

Maven

Gradle

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Apache JMeter

Oracle

SQL

Angular/SCSS

Protocol Buffers

Jackson

Gson

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain automated tests for web, API and backend systems; establish robust, scalable test frameworks.
• Define test automation architecture, tooling and strategy; support the transition from manual to automated testing.
• Embed continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines, produce actionable quality metrics and automated reporting.
• Partner with developers and QA teams on regression coverage, shift-left testing and DevSecOps practices.
• Evaluate emerging tooling, including Generative AI-assisted test generation, and support performance testing.

Requirements

• Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured; Cucumber JVM or Behave; JUnit and TestNG.
• Java: strong OpenJDK 11/17/21 expertise, including Streams, Collections and Lambda expressions.
• Delivery and performance: Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Apache JMeter and test data management.
• Data and application stack: Oracle and complex SQL; Angular/SCSS; Protocol Buffers, Jackson and Gson.
• Security and innovation: JWT/JJWT, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Generative AI test generation and Amazon Kiro.
• Testing fundamentals: QA methodologies, equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis; knowledge of grant lifecycle processes (submission through amendments).

QUALIFICATIONS

Either EQF Level 7 university degree with at least 10 years of professional IT experience, or EQF Level 6 degree with at least 12 years of professional IT experience. Degrees in any field are accepted.