QA Automation Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on QA Automation Engineer responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our software throughout the development lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will work closely with Product, Development, and Business teams to understand requirements, identify risks, define acceptance criteria, and develop effective testing strategies. This role will focus heavily on automation across web applications, APIs, integrations, databases, and end-to-end workflows.

What You’ll Do

• Participate in requirements gathering and refinement to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and edge cases.
• Define test scenarios and acceptance criteria with Product and Development teams.
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks using Playwright and/or Cypress .
• Build UI, regression, smoke, functional, and end-to-end automated tests.
• Develop automated API tests and validate REST services, JSON payloads, authentication, authorization, and business rules.
• Perform integration testing across APIs, databases, third-party services, and application components.
• Validate backend data and business logic using SQL .
• Develop and execute performance and load tests using k6 .
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support automated quality gates.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing where automation is not appropriate.
• Investigate test failures, identify root causes, and collaborate with developers to resolve defects.
• Maintain reliable, reusable, and scalable automation frameworks.
• Track defects and testing activities using Jira or similar tools .
• Monitor QA metrics including automation coverage, defect trends, test results, and release readiness.
• Participate in release planning and provide QA risk assessments.
• Continuously improve testing processes, automation coverage, and overall product quality.

What You Bring

Required

• 3+ years of experience in QA, Quality Engineering, or Test Automation .
• Strong hands-on automation experience with Playwright and/or Cypress .
• Experience with API testing and REST services .
• Experience with k6 or similar performance-testing tools .
• Working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript or another programming language.
• Experience with functional, regression, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with SQL and database validation .
• Understanding of CI/CD and Git .
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Experience with Jira or similar test/defect management tools.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

• Experience with Kubernetes-deployed applications (EKS preferred)
• DynamoDB or similar NoSQL operational experience
• Kafka consumer/producer development experience
• Experience designing and building AI-powered applications, agents, and workflows using LLMs or other generative AI technologies.
• Healthcare or compliance-adjacent environment experience (HITRUST, SOC 2, HIPAA)
• Experience with event-driven architectures or serverless patterns
• Familiarity with Terraform for application-layer infrastructure

Preferred

• Experience with both Playwright and Cypress .
• Strong k6 performance-testing experience.
• Experience with Postman.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Experience with BDD/Gherkin, accessibility, or security testing.

What We Offer

• High-impact role relieving a critical application bottleneck on a growing platform
• Direct reporting line to VP of Engineering with clear visibility into your contributions
• AI-forward engineering culture — we invest in tools and practices that multiply individual output
• Clear growth path as the engineering team scales
• Modern stack: GitOps (ArgoCD), Kafka, DynamoDB, EKS, Datadog, Terraform
• Impact on a platform serving enterprise healthcare clients — your automation work directly improves patient care delivery

ArgoCD

Kafka

DynamoDB

EKS

Datadog

AI Tools