Software Test Automation Engineer

BlackCube Labs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackCube Labs is seeking an experienced QA automation engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated tests for web, API, and backend systems. You will define the test automation architecture and strategy and embed continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate with developers and QA teams on regression coverage, shift-left testing, and DevSecOps practices, and evaluate emerging tooling including Generative AI-assisted test generation for performance testing.

Qualifications

• Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured; Cucumber JVM or Behave; JUnit and TestNG.

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.

Skills

Automation

Quality assurance

CI/CD

Regression testing

Shift-left testing

DevSecOps

Performance testing

Generative AI testing

Education

EQF Level 7 university degree

EQF Level 6 degree

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Cypress

Playwright

RestAssured

Cucumber JVM

Behave

JUnit

TestNG

Maven

Gradle

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Apache JMeter

Oracle

SQL

Angular/SCSS

Protocol Buffers

Jackson

Gson

JWT/JJWT

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

Generative AI test generation

Amazon Kiro

Job description

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.