Provide leadership, mentoring, and excellent judgment by being responsible for

• Writing and identifying test cases

• Setting up of test environments

• Designing test plans

• Developing test cases/scenarios based on usage cases

• Executing manual and automated tests

• Assisting in the design and implementation of automated test frameworks

• Performing expert code reviews

• Identifying opportunities for automated testing at different levels (unit, integration, UI, etc)

• Work within the assigned team to complete duties as assigned, while mentoring, training, and reviewing more junior engineers.

• Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences on usability and serviceability and suggested changes

• Analyze and improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of the testing pipeline

• Build solutions to aid in automated and load testing

8+ years working as a software engineer or test automation engineer

Expert in an object oriented language such as C# or Java

Complete understanding of the application development life cycle

Expert knowledge of QA testing techniques and the STLC

Expert experience testing REST web services

Expert at testing backend-heavy services where little or no user interface is available to drive testing

Ability to design and build custom test tooling and harnesses for systems that are difficult to exercise through conventional automation, including asynchronous and event-driven services

Practical experience applying GenAI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity, test generation, and analysis challenges

Experience with stress and load testing tools and techniques

Expert understanding of advanced techniques such as stubbing and mocking

Expert understanding of source control systems and CI/CD Pipelines