Our client, a well-established financial services organization, is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer with Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript expertise to join their team. In this role, you'll be instrumental in driving quality and reliability across software applications while advancing automation capabilities.
What You'll Do:
- Define, implement, and maintain advanced automation solutions and strategies for the team
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to enhance automation effectiveness across the practice
- Collaborate closely with your agile team, participating in ceremonies and contributing to acceptance criteria development
- Create and execute test cases and scripts for both manual and automated functional testing
- Ensure quality issues and defects are properly identified, documented, tracked, and resolved before release
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features
What You'll Need:
- Strong proficiency in Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience with agile methodologies and test automation strategies
- Ability to work on-site in Omaha following a hybrid schedule (3 days in-office)
- Authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship today or in the future
Responsibilities:
- Apply Quality Engineering principles throughout the Agile lifecycle
- Lead and drive a "Quality/Automation as a Team Mindset" within the team
- Exhibit domain knowledge and product expertise for supported applications
- Decompose stories/business requirements into test cases that clearly articulate test objectives, steps, and expected results
- Estimate, prioritize, plan, coordinate/perform, and document results of test execution
- Report, track, and retest defects/bugs prior to release
- Participate in and conduct regular test case peer reviews and automation code reviews
- Collaborate with the delivery team to build automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline
- Analyze and understand the current technology architecture, system interdependencies, and application stacks
- Lead by example, exhibiting initiative for self-learning of new technical skills and tools
- Drive consistent improvement and knowledge-sharing across the team
- Lead automation strategies/solutions and projects within the team and across the discipline
- Evaluate and propose new tools for continuous improvement
- Build, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain effective test automation solutions
- Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks
- Mentor others in test automation, programming, and QA best practices
- Work independently researching, solving, and programming complex automation solutions
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of work experience and/or certifications
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in UI and API test automation
- 5+ years of programming/scripting experience with JavaScript and/or Java
- 3+ years working with Git version control systems (Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab)
Technical Expertise:
- Proven experience leveraging AI tools to enhance test script management and automation
- Proficiency with modern automation frameworks and tools including Playwright, TestComplete, Selenium, Cypress, Postman, or Swagger
- Experience with web application, microservices, and database automation
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices and pipeline integration
- Additional scripting languages a plus: C#, PowerShell, SQL, XML
Testing Knowledge:
- Expertise across all testing levels: System, Integration, and Regression
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining automation frameworks
- Skilled in developing and documenting comprehensive regression testing strategies
- Working knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Deep understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
Agile & Tools:
- Strong foundation in Agile QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Experience with automation metrics and analytics tools (GitLab, BrowserStack, etc.)
- Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
Soft Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to clearly articulate complex technical information to diverse audiences