Test Automation Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

• 3 to 6 years of software quality engineering, SDET, or test automation experience.
• Hands-on experience developing automated tests, rather than primarily executing existing automated suites.
• Strong experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or a comparable code-based automation framework.
• Programming experience with Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or a comparable language.
• Experience building, enhancing, or maintaining reusable test automation frameworks and components.
• Hands-on API automation experience using REST Assured, Playwright, Cypress, Karate, PyTest, or similar tools.
• Strong SQL and database validation experience.
• Experience testing applications across UI, API, service, and database layers.
• Experience incorporating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Experience developing and maintaining smoke and regression automation suites.
• Experience troubleshooting failed automated tests and improving automation reliability.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.

What You'll Do

• Personally write and maintain automation code for UI, APIs, integrations, and backend services.
• Design reusable automation components that improve regression coverage.
• Build automation for new features during Agile sprint development.
• Identify high-value manual scenarios for conversion into automated tests.
• Develop automated API tests and validate data through SQL queries.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain reliable smoke and regression suites.
• Analyze failed automated tests and distinguish product defects from automation failures.
• Reduce flaky tests and improve automation stability.
• Review existing automation coverage and identify coverage gaps.
• Perform exploratory and functional testing where automation is inappropriate.
• Participate in test strategy and release planning with developers, product owners, and analysts.
• Help establish quality gates for software releases.