Senior Test Automation Engineer

Position Overview

**** Prior exp with Center of Medicaid and Medicare Preferred.

We are seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to own and evolve our test automation platform beyond test authoring. The ideal candidate will drive automation framework architecture, reliability, security, CI/CD integration, and cross-team enablement , helping ensure quality and automation remain on the critical path for software releases.

The role requires strong hands-on experience with Selenium, Cucumber, Java, Maven, GitHub, CI/CD, AWS, OpenShift, TestRail, and Jira , along with the ability to design scalable automation solutions and improve the overall software testing lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and continuously evolve the enterprise test automation framework , including architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain automated UI and functional tests using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Cucumber, and BDD frameworks .
• Create reusable automation components, utilities, page objects, test libraries, and framework capabilities to reduce test duplication and improve execution efficiency.
• Drive automation strategy across teams and ensure automated testing is integrated into the software development and release lifecycle .
• Integrate automated test suites with GitHub repositories and CI/CD pipelines , including OpenShift-based deployment and execution environments.
• Implement secure test automation practices, including centralized credential and secret management using AWS Secrets Manager .
• Eliminate plaintext credentials and ensure secure runtime retrieval, error handling, auditing, and rotation of automation secrets.
• Strengthen software dependency and supply-chain security by managing Maven dependencies through enterprise repositories such as Nexus .
• Standardize Maven configurations and build settings across developer workstations and CI/CD environments to improve build consistency and repeatability.
• Design automation frameworks capable of supporting multiple product configurations, environments, and plan-year implementations while minimizing code duplication and branching complexity.
• Develop and maintain Cucumber feature files, step definitions, hooks, runners, and reusable BDD components .
• Implement robust test execution strategies for nightly regression, smoke, integration, and release validation testing .
• Design and maintain integrations between automation frameworks and TestRail for automated test case management and results publishing.
• Support bidirectional synchronization between automation, TestRail, and other test management systems where required.
• Integrate automated testing and reporting with Jira requirements and defect workflows to improve requirements-to-test traceability.
• Automate test execution reporting, metrics, dashboards, and audit-ready quality artifacts.
• Reduce manual reporting and test-management activities through automation and scheduled reporting solutions.
• Analyze automation failures, identify root causes, and improve framework reliability and test stability.
• Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, product owners, and other technical teams to resolve quality and release risks.
• Establish automation best practices, coding standards, design patterns, and documentation across QA teams.
• Mentor other automation engineers and provide technical guidance on framework development and automation strategy.
• Continuously identify opportunities to increase automation coverage, reduce regression execution time, and improve release confidence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software testing and test automation experience .
• Strong hands-on experience developing automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver .
• Strong programming experience with Java .
• Extensive experience with Cucumber / BDD and Gherkin.
• Experience with JUnit and/or TestNG .
• Strong experience with Maven and dependency management.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines .
• Hands-on experience with Git/GitHub .
• Experience working with OpenShift, Kubernetes, or containerized CI/CD environments .
• Experience with AWS , particularly AWS Secrets Manager or similar cloud-based secret-management solutions.
• Experience with enterprise artifact repositories such as Nexus Repository or Artifactory.
• Experience with TestRail, Jira , or similar test management and issue-tracking platforms.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, regression testing, test strategy, and automation architecture.
• Experience troubleshooting failed automation executions and improving test stability and reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing or owning an enterprise-scale automation framework .
• Experience with REST/API automation and tools such as REST Assured .
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Experience with AWS services beyond Secrets Manager.
• Experience implementing automated test reporting and dashboards.
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Understanding of application security and software supply-chain security .
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Experience working with regulated, enterprise, or highly controlled environments.

Technical Skills

Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, BDD, JUnit, TestNG, Test Automation Frameworks
Programming: Java, OOP, Design Patterns
Build & Dependency Management: Maven, Nexus, Artifact Management
CI/CD: GitHub, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, OpenShift, Kubernetes
Cloud/Security: AWS, AWS Secrets Manager, Secure Credential Management
Test Management: TestRail, Jira, Requirements Traceability
Testing: Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration, End-to-End, UI Automation
Version Control: Git, GitHub
Reporting: Automated Test Reporting, Metrics, Audit-Ready Test Artifacts
Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, BDD, Shift-Left Testing