Quality Engineer Automation-5

Realign LLC11 months ago
Oakland, CA, United States
On-site
Contract
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Position Overview

Driving quality gates across the SDLC with a heavy focus on automation, CI/CD alignment, and scalable test coverage. Partnering with engineering and product to ensure predictable, defect‐free releases.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent).
  • Build and execute automated test suites across UI, API, and integration layers.
  • Enable shift-left testing practices and root-cause analysis.
  • Own test strategy, coverage metrics, and quality KPIs.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.).
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, product, and DevOps teams.
  • Perform regression, functional, performance, and smoke testing.
  • Drive defect management and test documentation.

Required Qualifications

  • 5–8 years in Quality Engineering with strong automation fundamentals.
  • Hands-on with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestNG, JUnit, or similar.
  • Strong exposure to API automation (Postman, Rest Assured).
  • Solid grounding in Java, Python, or JavaScript.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments.
  • Working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL for validation.
  • Proven ability to scale frameworks and optimize execution.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with performance tools (JMeter, Locust).
  • Container and microservices testing exposure (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

Required Skills

Cypress
JavaScript
API Automation (Postman, Rest Assured)
Java
Selenium
TestNG
SQL/NoSQL
Agile/Scrum
Shift-left Testing
JUnit
Defect Management
Framework Scaling
Python
Playwright
CI/CD integration (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)