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Job#: 3044753
Job Description:
Sr. QA Test Automation Engineer
Location: St. Louis, Missouri (Partial Remote) onsite 4 days per week
Employment Type: Contract
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Quality Assurance Test Automation Engineer to join a product delivery team responsible for a high-scale data ecosystem. This role focuses on the automated validation of APIs, data transformations, and downstream reporting for a cloud-based big data analytics platform. You will be responsible for defining and implementing a data-aware automation approach to ensure data correctness across ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks and test scripts for cloud-based applications.
• Build and evolve automation that validates services, data pipelines, and data outputs across environments.
• Create comprehensive test plans and strategies covering functional risk, integration points, regression, and non-functional requirements.
• Write complex database queries, perform end-to-end testing, and analyze data to validate cloud infrastructure and services.
• Execute API testing and performance baselining to identify bottlenecks and reliability risks.
• Create reusable test data, manage test artifacts, and contribute to sprint planning and estimation.
• Investigate defects using logs and telemetry, collaborating with team members to troubleshoot issues and validate fixes.
• Provide technical thought leadership and mentor peers on automation patterns and testing processes.

Required Qualifications
Education: A Bachelor's degree with a major or specialized courses in Information Technology or commensurate experience is required.
Experience: A minimum of 5 years of proven experience in QA automation, SDET, or Quality Engineering roles is necessary. This includes experience with:

• Writing and analyzing complex data queries and automation scripts for testing large datasets.
• Testing analytics, data processing, or data-driven platforms at scale.
• Testing service-based architectures, including REST APIs and event-driven workflows.

Technical Skills: Proficiency with the following is required:

• Strong scripting ability in Python and/or Java.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases such as Redshift.
• Experience with tools like Java, Selenium, JupyterLab, Jira, and Xray.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Glue, Lambda, and SageMaker.
• Proficiency with API and performance testing tools like Postman or Gatling.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and version control.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools is preferred.
• Knowledge of security testing methodologies for cloud environments is considered a bonus.
• Exposure to data governance validation.

Work Authorization
ship is required for this position.
Compensation
The estimated pay rate for this position is $70.00 to $85.00 per hour. The contract duration is one year with a possibility of extension.
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