Location
Lowell, MA
Salary
Not specified
Type
contract
Posted
Today
via linkedin
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Automated QA Engineer
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for web, mobile, API, and backend applications.
- Create and implement automated functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing solutions.
- Collaborate with product owners, software engineers, business analysts, and UX teams to understand requirements and define test strategies.
- Participate in requirements reviews, design reviews, and sprint planning activities to ensure testability and quality considerations are addressed early in the development lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain reusable automation frameworks, libraries, and utilities following established coding standards and best practices.
- Create and execute API tests using REST, GraphQL, and other service-based architectures.
- Analyze test results, identify defects, and work closely with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing and rapid delivery.
- Implement test data management strategies and support test environment setup and maintenance.
- Monitor product quality metrics and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Perform root cause analysis of production defects and provide recommendations to prevent recurrence.
- Create and maintain testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, automation architecture diagrams, and quality reports.
- Participate in code reviews for both application and test automation code.
- Collaborate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Advocate for quality engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle.
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Key Qualifications / Requirements
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
Experience
- 3\+ years of professional experience in software quality assurance or software development.
- 2\+ years of hands-on experience developing automated test solutions using modern automation frameworks and programming languages.
- Experience testing web applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, testing strategies, and quality assurance principles.
- Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, or similar technologies.
- Experience with API testing tools and frameworks.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with test management, defect tracking, and Agile development practices.
- Experience with Git-based source control workflows.
- Understanding of software architecture, system integrations, and microservices-based applications.
- Experience working within Agile development teams using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
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