Senior QA Automation Engineer

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Job Title: Senior QA Automation Engineer
Location: Lansing, MI, (Hybrid)
Position Type: Contract
Interview Mode: MS Teams

Hybrid Work Schedule (Non-Negotiable): There is no remote-only option
Required onsite days- Wednesdays and Thursdays
Remote eligible days- Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays 
Required Qualifications


Testing & Quality Assurance Skills

• Designing and executing manual and automated test cases. (5+ years)
• Ability to analyze requirements, user stories (in Azure DevOps), and acceptance criteria to design effective, reusable test cases (including positive, negative, and boundary testing). (5+ years)
• Generating and documenting test plans and strategies. (5+ years)
• API testing and tools like Postman, Rest Client, and others. (5+ years)
• Demonstrable experience automating web applications using frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in an IT related field

Highly Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience automating web applications using the Playwright for Java library.
• A background in Selenium WebDriver, which provides a strong foundation for understanding the strategies and nuances of browser automation.
• Experience in financial and government domains

Other Desired Qualification:

• Understanding of software testing methodologies and quality assurance processes (Quality Assurance, User Acceptance, System Integration, Accessibility, Performance, Regression, Post Deployment Validation, Data Conversion).
• Generating testing reports and metrics.
• Generating and acquiring test data.
• ADA Compliance testing tools, such as AccVerify, JAWS, etc.
• Build environments {DEV, UAT, QAT, PRE-PROD} specific test suites with integrated application life cycle management.
• Experience in identifying, documenting, and tracking bugs clearly and concisely in a tool like Azure DevOps.
• Senior-level (3–5+ years) hands-on experience performing performance and load testing using tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner, including scripting, executing test scenarios, analyzing results, and identifying system bottlenecks.

Automation & Technical Skills

• Proven experience writing clean, maintainable, and object-oriented Java code for test automation.
• Writing clear and effective Gherkin scenarios (Given/When/Then).
• Implementing Step Definitions in Java.
• Writing SQL and P-SQL queries.
• Ability to write and execute SQL queries (SELECTs, JOINs) for test data setup and validation against Oracle and/or SQL Server databases.
• Proficiency in using Git for version control (merging, pull requests) as part of a team.

Agile & Collaboration

• Experience working as an active participant in an Agile/Scrum team and its ceremonies.
• Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and design test cases.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
• Strong skills in communicating test results, bugs, and risks to developers, BAs, and other stakeholders.
• Security & Compliance
• Understanding of the secure application development lifecycle (SADLC).

Soft Skills & Other Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in person in downtown Lansing 2 days a week.
• Experience using Azure DevOps Testing Module.
• Experience with Mobile App testing of iOS and Android applications.
• Experience using Eclipse as a primary development environment.
• Experience with the TestNG framework. (This remains valuable since your framework uses it for test running and its skipping logic).
• Additional experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner, including advanced workload modeling or CI/CD-based performance automation.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, RESTAssured, or APIRequestContext.

Flexible work from home options available.