QA Automation Engineer

Job Description

Key responsibilities will be to 

 ·  Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for web, API, and backend services.

·  Build automated regression, integration, end-to-end, and performance test coverage for new and existing capabilities.

·  Partner with product owners, developers, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and define acceptance criteria.

·  Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery and shift-left quality practices.

·  Validate functionality across investment product workflows, including onboarding, transaction processing, lifecycle events, reporting, and digital document workflows.

·  Perform root cause analysis for defects and collaborate with engineering teams to drive resolution.

·  Develop and maintain test data strategies and environments to support automated testing.

·  Monitor and improve quality metrics, test execution efficiency, and release readiness.

·  Support production validation, troubleshooting, and post-release verification activities.

·  Advocate for quality engineering best practices, test automation standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.

QA automation & technical skills 

• Strong hands-on experience designing and maintaining QA automation frameworks using Java or another object-oriented programming language. 

• Experience testing Spring Boot services, REST APIs, microservices, integrations, and data flows, including positive, negative, boundary, and error-handling scenarios. 

• Hands-on experience with API automation tools such as REST Assured and Postman/Newman, and UI automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent. 

• Experience with automated testing in CI/CD pipelines using source control, build tools, test reporting, and quality gates. 

• Working knowledge of SQL and backend data validation, test-data management, service virtualization or mocking, and environment troubleshooting. 

• Experience planning and executing regression testing for application rewrites, Spring Boot changes, operating-system or virtual-machine upgrades, and production-like environments. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 

• 5+ years of hands-on software quality engineering or test automation experience in large-scale or complex environments. 

• Demonstrated experience delivering automation for API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing. 

Nice to have 

• • Experience with cloud-native applications and containerized environments.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies.
  • Knowledge of financial services, wealth management, trading, or investment products.
  • Familiarity with performance, security, and accessibility testing practices.
  • Experience implementing quality engineering strategies within highly regulated environments.

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