Remote Senior QA Automation Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior QA Automation Engineer at Firmex, a global SaaS provider. The role involves leading quality efforts, articulating testing strategies, developing and owning test plans and automated tests, and maintaining all automated test suites. Candidates should have experience in API testing, API test automation, integration testing, and working with Jenkins or other pipeline solutions. They should also be passionate about Agile methodology, curious, communicative, detail-oriented, and confident.

Requirements

• Experience leading the test strategy and design on software projects, ideally in a SaaS environment
• 7+ years experience in API testing and API test automation using tools like Postman, Jest, Rest Assured
• 5+ experience authoring and maintaining integration tests in frameworks like RSpec, Jest, or Nightwatch.js
• Experience and understanding with at least one programming language like JavaScript
• Experience testing components hosted in AWS or other cloud services
• Experience working with Jenkins or other pipeline solutions

Responsibilities

• Be the voice of quality on the team
• Articulate and defend testing strategies, trade offs, and decisions
• Develop and own test plans and automated tests at the component and integration level
• Test and merge new features into the main development line
• Maintain all automated test suites as well as their documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• A passion for Agile methodology but the flexibility to think outside the scrum
• A curious nature. You want to understand the process behind the decisions, the why of the design, and the nature of the application
• A desire to put your best foot forward. You want to be part of a team dedicated to creating and delivering quality software
• Outstanding communication. This is not a heads-down role. You will be working with a team that innovates together, out loud. And you will need to listen, engage, and present to external teams and senior project managers in a confident manner
• Pride. You enjoy your work and getting a job done well. You want to be part of a team that promotes their accomplishments and sees the difference they make