Quality Assurance Engineer

Effectual is a company that provides strategic guidance and customized solutions for digital transformation. They are seeking a highly skilled Quality Assurance Engineer to develop and maintain automated testing solutions, support application development, and ensure the quality of software through various testing methods.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain automated testing solutions to support application development ecosystems
• Build and maintain automated test libraries and utilities using Playwright and TypeScript
• Develop and support automated testing across: internal browser-based applications, native mobile apps (iOS/Android), RESTful APIs, and backend services
• Consume Gherkin-style test cases and implement them in the test framework
• Develop API-based testing tools for data setup, cleanup, and workflow simulation to support test efficiency
• Collaborate with QA leadership to track test coverage, quality metrics, and identify opportunities for automation improvements
• Provide technical support and innovative cloud solutions in alignment with business objectives, by designing, architecting, maintaining, and operationalizing cloud-based applications and systems on the AWS Cloud
• Support and maintain existing software functionality; investigate, analyze, and correct identified defects
• Improve the maintainability and performance of existing software through application refactoring
• Independently responsible for the entire lifecycle of medium and large features from design through deployment
• Perform pull requests/merge requests, branch management, and build and deployments
• Build, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple stacks
• Review technical design documentation and participate in technical reviews
• Create proper documentation for software and test automation being built

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, IT, IS, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience with software testing strategies including exploratory, regression, and end-to-end validation
• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing test automation using Playwright, Selenium (TestNG), or Cypress
• 4+ years' experience in object-oriented programming using Java, Python, or similar
• 3+ years' experience in TypeScript or JavaScript
• 3+ years' experience writing and executing SQL queries using MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
• 2+ years' experience in API testing tools such as Postman, ReadyAPI, or REST Assured
• 2+ years of experience in automation of test setup/cleanup
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Developer Associate, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate