Senior QA Automation Engineer ID72456

AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.

WHY JOIN US

If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality strategy for serverless middleware services powering ordering, loyalty, payments, and third-party integrations across a major consumer platform. You will design and maintain automated test suites for RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures on AWS, execute performance and load testing, validate partner integrations including delivery and payment platforms, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. The role expects active use of AI-assisted tools as a core part of daily quality engineering work.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Build automated test frameworks for serverless applications;

- Validate event-driven workflows and asynchronous messaging;

- Execute performance and load testing;

- Validate resiliency and failure scenarios;

- Design, build, and maintain automated test suites covering functional, integration, and contract testing for middleware APIs and services ensuring correct behavior in isolation and across dependencies;

- Leverage AI-assisted tools for test case generation, synthetic data creation, failure analysis, and coverage documentation;

- Own performance and reliability validation including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, establishing baselines and identifying bottlenecks;

- Partner with engineers throughout the development cycle to align on test strategy, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions;

- Validate third-party integrations through contract testing, sandbox/staging validation, and failure mode analysis;

- Track and report quality metrics, maintain documentation, and contribute to incident post-mortems.

MUST HAVES

- 4+ years of quality engineering or software engineering experience focused on backend API testing;

- Experience designing automated test suites for REST APIs in distributed or microservices environments;

- Hands-on experience with performance and load testing;

- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript , Java , or Python ;

- Working knowledge of AWS serverless services ( Lambda , API Gateway , DynamoDB , SQS/SNS );

- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines ( Azure DevOps , GitHub Actions );

- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools ( GitHub Copilot , Claude , or equivalent);

- Familiarity with contract testing approaches and consumer-driven contracts;

- Strong analytical and root-cause analysis skills, including distinguishing flaky tests from real defects;

- Experience validating asynchronous systems;

- Strong scripting skills;

- Clear communication and ability to translate test findings into engineering priorities;

- Collaborative approach to working within engineering sprints;

- Upper-intermediate English level.

NICE TO HAVES

- Experience with k6, Gatling, JMeter, or similar performance testing tools;

- Postman/Newman experience;

- Familiarity with Pact or other contract testing tools;

- Cognito authentication testing experience;

- Delivery and payment integration testing experience;

- Experience with DoorDash, Uber Eats, or similar marketplace APIs;

- Chaos engineering and fault injection (AWS FIS or similar);

- Observability tooling experience (Dynatrace, Datadog, CloudWatch);

- Multi-region AWS testing and failover/latency validation;

- Background in QSR, retail, or e-commerce domains;

- AWS Certified Developer – Associate or higher.

PERKS AND BENEFITS

- Professional growth : Mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.

- Competitive compensation : USD-based pay with education, fitness, and team activity budgets.

- Exciting projects : Modern solutions with Fortune 500 and top product companies.

- Flextime : Flexible schedule with remote and office options.

Meet Our Recruitment Process

Application → Coding Challenge → Video Interview → Technical Interview or Hiring Manager Interview

Each step helps us understand your skills and overall fit.

If it’s a match, you’ll receive an offer.