Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

About This Role

This role is for a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer (Contractor) to build and maintain automated test frameworks for next-generation cloud-native enterprise applications, focusing on quality and reliability within an Agile environment. The engineer will drive automation strategy and collaborate with cross-functional teams, championing behavior-driven development (BDD) best practices.

Responsibilities

• Extend and troubleshoot automated testing and behavior-driven development (BDD) frameworks for .NET applications
• Analyze existing libraries of executable specifications (e.g., Gherkin) to improve test resilience and refactor incorrect or unnecessary steps
• Contribute to defining standards for test cases to ensure clarity, consistency, and effectiveness
• Use established standards to design and implement a modern cloud-native test framework to replace legacy SpecFlow-based automation
• Participate in the design and architecture of a next-generation, cloud-native enterprise application
• Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, product owners, and QA team members in an Agile Scrum environment to ensure high-quality software delivery
• Conduct functional, regression, performance, and exploratory testing for critical application workflows, with a focus on automated execution
• Ensure coverage of usability, accessibility, and security testing as part of automation strategy
• Coordinate with internal business stakeholders and QA peers to facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT), including data validation and business rules alignment
• Actively identify inefficiencies in test automation pipelines or regression coverage and propose improvements to increase test robustness and execution speed

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in automated software testing with emphasis on BDD and cloud-based environments
• 5+ years of experience with Selenium / ChromeDriver
• 5+ years building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
• 5+ years using Visual Studio / VS Code
• Proficiency with SpecFlow, C#, Gherkin

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in automated software testing with emphasis on BDD and cloud-based environments. 5+ years of experience with Selenium / ChromeDriver. 5+ years building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps. 5+ years using Visual Studio / VS Code

Nice to Have

• Experience with non-functional testing such as accessibility, performance, or security automation
• Familiarity with tools like Tosca or alternative test orchestration platforms
• Exposure to test data management tools or synthetic test data generation

Skills

* Required skills