Senior QA Automation Engineer ID72456

Job Description 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.

Requirements 4+ years of quality engineering or software engineering experience, with a focus on backend API and integration testing Demonstrated experience designing and executing automated test suites for RESTful APIs in a distributed or microservices environment Hands-on experience with performance and load testing tools and methodologies Experience writing test automation in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python Working knowledge of AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS) and how to test against them Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent) Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent) Familiarity with contract testing approaches and consumer-driven contract frameworks Strong analytical and root-cause analysis skills; able to distinguish flaky tests from genuine defects Experience validating asynchronous systems Strong scripting skills Clear communicator who can translate test findings into actionable engineering priorities Collaborative approach to quality — comfortable working directly in engineering sprints rather than as a separate QA gate