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Job Summary:
Republic Airways is seeking a Senior IT Quality Assurance Automation Engineer to enhance their software quality assurance function. This role involves defining test strategies, developing test automation, executing comprehensive testing plans, and collaborating with development teams to ensure high-quality software products.
Responsibilities:
• Coordinates software QA needs across the Republic portfolio including performance testing, end-2-end testing, test automation, regression testing, user experience and validating system capability and scalability.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies aligned with project requirements, including functional, regression, performance, and usability testing.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to understand product features and define acceptance criteria.
• Design and maintain a robust test suite, leveraging both automated testing techniques and manual (as required).
• Prioritize and estimate testing efforts to meet project deadlines.
• Oversee the execution of test cases across various testing phases, ensuring thorough coverage of product functionalities.
• Define quality assurance automation development plans, including scoping, scheduling, implementation and metrics.
• Identify, document, and track defects using defect management tools, providing clear and concise descriptions to facilitate bug resolution.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce issues and prioritize bug fixes.
• Drive the implementation and maintenance of automated testing frameworks, including unit, integration, frontend/UI, backend, and data validation automation.
• Identify opportunities for automation and optimize testing processes to improve efficiency.
• Evaluate and recommend new testing tools and technologies to enhance quality assurance capabilities.
• Establish and enforce quality standards and metrics to measure the effectiveness of testing activities.
• Generate detailed test reports, analyzing test results to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Proactively communicate quality risks and mitigation strategies to project stakeholders.
• Seek out, gather, and understand all relevant business logic from SMEs, available documentation, systems, etc. as required to fully evaluate and test features, components, assumptions, and supporting elements.
• Form partnerships with project participants and stakeholders to streamline requirements definition, problem resolution, test plan development.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer
• Prior experience developing and implementing automated testing for software built on cloud-native technologies in Amazon Web Services
• Proficient in DevOps related practices and technologies including but not limited to automated software validation and deployment technologies and techniques
• Robust expertise in automated testing techniques, including API testing and UI automation frameworks (e.g., Pylenium, Selenium, Appium).
• Deep understanding of quality assurance test automation standards, relevant tools/frameworks/software, best practices, objectives, development, implementation, execution, and reporting.
• Ability to write various types of automation such as generating data to support various testing efforts.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes of defects.
• Proficiency in defect tracking tools (e.g., Jira) and test case management platforms.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively interact with cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
• Excels at championing agile (Scrum & Kanban) development and software engineering best practices
• Proficiency in the following technologies/concepts as they pertain to automated QA testing
• Pylenium
• Locust
• Postman
• MS SQL and/or PostgreSQL
• AWS application and data integration flow testing
• React and TypeScript
• Apple Swift Development (Xcode, SwiftUI, and UIKit)
• Android Development
• Data validation
• C# and Python
• HTML/XML/CSS/JavaScript
• REST API
• JSON
• PHP
• Entity Framework
• Azure DevOps and Git
Company:
Republic Airways completed its merger with Mesa Airlines on Nov. 25, 2025. Founded in 1974, the company is headquartered in Indianapolis, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.