SDET- Remote
Title: SDET/ Automation Engineer Location: Remote Target Start Date: ASAP Type: Contract Pay Rate: DOE Job Description: Automation Test Engineer We are seeking an experienced Automation Test Engineer with a strong background in API, UI, and microservices testing. The ideal candidate will be hands-on with automation frameworks, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines, with the ability to collaborate across global teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI (Selenium, TestNG, WebDriver) and APIs (Rest Assured, ReadyAPI, SoapUI, Postman).
- Perform REST API testing and automation using Swagger documentation for validation.
- Automate tests across the full stack: UI, application layer, REST APIs, and web services.
- Build SQL queries and validate databases through automation.
- Contribute to and enhance enterprise test automation frameworks.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bamboo, Maven, Git, and Docker.
- Execute test planning, estimation, strategy, and defect tracking in JIRA.
- Generate and communicate test results, document defects, and validate bug fixes.
- Coordinate with US and offshore QA teams to ensure coverage and quality.
- Apply critical thinking to translate complex business/application flows into test cases.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience with Selenium, ReadyAPI, Rest Assured, SoapUI, Postman.
- Proven background in microservices testing and REST/JSON APIs.
- Hands-on with Java (preferred), JavaScript, SQL for automation scripting.
- Proficiency in automation frameworks and tools: JUnit, TestNG, Appium, Cucumber (BDD with Gherkin).
- Familiarity with Kafka topics and consumer validation.
- CI/CD expertise with Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker, Maven, Git, Stash/Bitbucket.
- Cloud knowledge with emphasis on AWS and cloud-based web application architectures.
- Experience with Selenium Grid for cross-browser parallel test execution.
- Knowledge of Extent Reports, Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ for automation reporting and development.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, threading, algorithms, and data structures.
- Frontend UI experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills; data-driven decision-making.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities in Agile/Scrum environments.
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