Automated QA Engineer

Automated QA Engineer

Role Summary
We are seeking an Automated QA Engineer to help design, develop, and maintain robust automated testing solutions for web, mobile, APIs, and backend systems. This role will contribute to delivering high-quality software by ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance through comprehensive test automation strategies while collaborating closely with software engineers, product managers, business analysts, and DevOps teams.

Key Responsibilities
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.

Key Qualifications / Requirements:
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.

Pi-square technologies is a Michigan (USA) Headquartered Automotive Embedded Engineering Services company, Synergy Partner for major OEMs and Tier 1s and their implementation partners in Automotive Embedded Product Development, Projects, Requirements Analysis, Software Design, Software Implementation, Efficient Build, Release Process, and turnkey software V & V Services. We have more than 20+ years of industry expertise with specialization in the latest cutting-edge automotive technologies such as Infotainment, connected vehicles, Cyber security, OTA, and Advanced Safety/ Body electronics.