QA Automation Engineer

Role Description: Hands-on QA Engineer covering both functional testing and automation, with ownership of the AWS-hosted regression framework and process — engineering fixes at framework and infrastructure level, not just running tests and analysing results. Own the AWS automation framework — permanently fix cloud failure modes (container restarts, load balancer timeouts, DB connectivity and connection-pool exhaustion, S3/SQS integration, IAM/credential expiry, config drift) rather than re-running or masking them.

Job Title: QA Automation Engineer
Location: Princeton, NJ (Onsite)
Duration : 6 Months


Salary Range: $35.00 - $37.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits).
Applicants must be willing to work on W2.
 
Local Candidates Only: Candidates must be local to Princeton, NJ and available for a face-to-face (F2F) interview.
 
Role Description:

• Hands-on QA Engineer covering both functional testing and automation, with ownership of the AWS-hosted regression framework and process — engineering fixes at framework and infrastructure level, not just running tests and analysing results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute functional test cases; validate data directly via SQL.
• Build, extend and refactor the core automation framework (UI, API and service layers).
• Own the AWS automation framework — permanently fix cloud failure modes (container restarts, load balancer timeouts, DB connectivity and connection-pool exhaustion, S3/SQS integration, IAM/credential expiry, config drift) rather than re-running or masking them.
• Harden environment provisioning, seeding, teardown and secrets management so runs start from a known-good baseline.
• Implement resilience in the framework — retry with backoff, health checks and readiness gates, graceful handling of transient cloud failures.
• Improve the end-to-end AWS regression process — reduce runtime via parallelisation and sharding, drive down flaky tests against measurable targets, and add failure trend dashboards and automatic artefact capture.
• Analyse logs and stack traces to isolate root cause; classify failures as product defect, script defect, test data, environment or timing.
• Integrate and maintain suites in CI/CD; partner with DevOps and Development to clear infrastructure blockers and communicate risk.

Required Skills:

• Experience Required: 8–10 Years.
• 8+ years QA across functional and automation.
• Strong Java — able to write and debug framework code, not just scripts.
• Selenium, Cucumber/BDD, solid SQL.
• Proven experience debugging, fixing and improving automation frameworks in AWS (EC2/ECS, S3, SQS, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Track record of measurably reducing regression runtime and flakiness.
• Jenkins/CI-CD, Maven, Git.
• Strong analytical mindset able to work independently through intermittent, ambiguous failures.

• 7+ years in Advanced Java Concepts.