QA Automation Engineer

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Independently reviews requirements, specifications, and project documentation to derive test scenarios, identify edge cases, and ensure quality of products and tests to be developed.
• Writes modular, reusable automation scripts and implements integration automation by applying current techniques and formal test design strategies.
• Integrates automation into CI/CD pipelines, validates release readiness, and proactively communicates risks and blockers to engineering teams throughout the development cycle.
• Executes full integration tests and validates connected systems across supported platforms including iOS, Android, and web to ensure end-to-end quality of product.
• Applies accessibility testing fundamentals for web applications and contributes to improving accessibility coverage across the product.
• Debugs automation failures, analyzes logs and API issues, identifies root causes, and verifies fixes independently.
• Owns testing tasks end-to-end, producing test plans, test cases, test procedures, and test reports while actively participating in peer code reviews and maintaining documentation.
• Collaborates effectively across functional areas with internal partner engineering teams, participates actively in sprint planning, and shares best practices with less experienced QA team members.
• Estimates own testing tasks, proactively identifies gaps in coverage, and works productively end-to-end with minimal supervision while maintaining strong team collaboration.
• Uses AI tools daily to support test case generation, script refinement, edge case identification, and automation productivity — critically evaluating outputs before incorporating them into test work.
• Shares AI-assisted approaches and discoveries with the broader QA team, contributing to a culture where AI is a standard part of the daily workflow.
• Apply an AI-first approach across QA planning, test design, automation, defect analysis, documentation, and reporting by leveraging AI tooling to improve speed, coverage, accuracy, and overall software quality.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a QA automation engineer role, with demonstrated ability to own testing tasks independently end-to-end.
• Strong working knowledge of Java, Python, TypeScript and/or JavaScript, with experience writing modular and reusable automation code.
• Proven experience creating reusable automation test cases utilizing tools such as Selenium and/or Playwright. Experience with Appium a plus.
• Strong experience in API testing (SOAP and RESTful), including SQL validation in support of integration test scenarios.
• Strong experience with XML, databases, and SQL; hands-on experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, Windows, and/or mobile devices
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to analyze complex problems in large systems
• Applicant must be able to prioritize, schedule and complete testing for multiple applications with overlapping schedules
• Experience with test processes, open-source test frameworks, formal test design strategies, and automating tests in Java using frameworks such as Selenium and Playwright required.
• Must be detail oriented, and a creative thinker with passion for quality and test automation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Additional Experience Preferred

• Experience with Appium for mobile test automation.
• Strong working knowledge of tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Git, and Artifactory/Maven; active contribution to documentation and Agile workflows.
• Experience using AI tools (such as Claude) to refactor automation scripts, generate edge case scenarios, and improve productivity.

What We Offer

• The ability to work from anywhere in the United States, this position is primarily remote, with required travel one time per year.
• The compensation range for this role is $85,000-$90,000
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, vision, and dental insurance, starting the first of the month after start date
• 401(k) retirement plan, with company match
• Paid company holidays and generous PTO
• A friendly, supportive, and adventurous environment with a team of engaged colleagues who are all focused on enabling and improving the childcare industry for all families