Test Automation Engineer - UI/API & Data Validation

Jobtailor; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a hands-on Test Automation Engineer to design and implement automated test strategies across UI, API, and backend systems. You will translate complex requirements into robust test plans, develop reusable test scripts in Java or C#, and drive quality across cross-functional teams.

In this role you will lead test planning for large features, triage issues, and collaborate with developers and managers to ensure acceptance criteria and compliance requirements are met.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of automation framework experience at an organizational level.
• Proficient in Java or C#.
• Experience with REST API testing using POSTMAN.
• Experience with UI automation frameworks.
• Interpret functional requirements and designs to plan, develop, write, execute, and automate functional and data validation test plans.
• Build reusable automation tests/test scripts using Java.
• Execute and evaluate automated test cases and report test results.
• Review GitHub feature files, branching strategy, maintain GitHub branches.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop test plans and test cases from complex requirements to verify and validate business objectives.
• Design and implement code for our test automation system to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Exploring product quality issues and triaging automated test runs
• Liaising with developers and managers on technical issues
• Driving the integrity and quality of technical work on significant projects
• Work closely with cross functional teams in handling queries and escalation
• Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting
• Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools
• Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams
• Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.)
• Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders
• Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments

Skills

Automation framework development

Java

C#

REST API testing

UI automation

Test planning

Tools

POSTMAN

GitHub

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a hands-on Test Automation Engineer to design and implement automated test strategies across UI, API, and backend systems. You will translate complex requirements into robust test plans, develop reusable test scripts in Java or C#, and drive quality across cross-functional teams.

In this role you will lead test planning for large features, triage issues, and collaborate with developers and managers to ensure acceptance criteria and compliance requirements are met.