Senior QA Automation Engineer - Remote

Overview

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our lean, fast-moving digital team. If you’re passionate about building reliable testing pipelines, crushing bugs before they go live, and collaborating with smart, witty teammates who know how to work hard and laugh harder—this might be your perfect next move.

In Short

• Test web and mobile application releases on a day-to-day and project-by-project basis.
• Develop and execute comprehensive testing plans for each project release.
• Develop/implement automated test strategy and scripts within a CI/CD pipeline.
• Develop/implement API testing strategy and scripts.
• Where applicable, develop and execute load testing.
• Attend regular status meetings and deliver updates on testing progress.
• Assist stakeholders in keeping application specifications accurate and up to date.
• Work with IT Developers to improve automated testing where possible.
• Analyze documented defects to identify root causes and impact on related functions or product features.
• Identify and mitigate risks/issues related to testing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of testing experience: test automation, test planning and test execution
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Experience in automated testing applications with Robot Framework
• Experience with API testing tools, such as Postman, ReadyAPI
• Experience with Load Testing applications such as LoadNinja and AWS Load Testing.
• Demonstrated experience testing large web applications
• Experience with MySQL
• Experience working in an Agile environment and using tools such as Jira and Confluence, or similar
• Experience with security testing and accessibility testing. OWASP, Axe, Wave or similar.

Benefits

• Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues
• Experience with AWS is a plus.
• Knowledge of how and where web applications fail - knowing how to break things!
• Easygoing, fun, and a team player - must be able to comprehend highly advanced forms of sarcasm
• Eager to research and learn in a self-directed way (always improving)
• Excellent communication skills - must be able to explain technical issues to a non-technical person in a pleasant manner.