QA Automation Engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Job Description
We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing. Must have hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium, JavaScript/TypeScript, Postman, API Automation, and SQL.
Experience using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or GitHub Copilot for test case creation, test data generation, and improving testing productivity is required.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements, user stories, and technical specifications. Create test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
- Perform Functional, Integration, System, End-to-End, Regression, Smoke, and UAT testing.
- Validate application workflows and business rules across web and API layers.
- Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Develop reusable and maintainable automation scripts and integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Execute API testing using Postman, validate REST APIs, request/response payloads, status codes, headers, and authentication mechanisms.
- Develop API automation suites using JavaScript and perform API contract and integration testing.
- Validate API performance, error handling, and backend data using complex SQL queries.
- Verify data integrity, data transformation, business rules, and UI-to-database/API-to-database consistency.
- Perform data reconciliation, troubleshoot automation failures, and conduct root cause analysis.
- Identify, document, and track defects. Work with development teams to resolve issues.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Developers to clarify requirements and identify gaps.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Backlog Grooming, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to continuous testing improvements.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in QA, including Manual and Automation Testing.
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, JavaScript/TypeScript, Postman, API Automation, and SQL Database Testing.
- Strong experience in designing and maintaining automation frameworks.
- Experience with REST API testing, API automation, and integration testing.
- Strong SQL skills with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
- Experience with Git/GitHub and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience using Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI tools for testing activities.
- Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams.