QA Automation Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: QA Automation Engineer (QA / Test Automation Engineer)
• Contract: 6+ months
• Work model: Hybrid (2 days/week)
• Focus: Network automation application quality and automated testing

Description

You will design and maintain automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of releases for a network automation application. You will evaluate and improve existing tests and enhance the automated testing solution; where automation is not possible, you will perform manual testing before and after feature releases. You will also create test plans/cases/data, validate results against Oracle/SQL, and collaborate to resolve defects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites using pytest and Selenium
• Test the React/HTML front end and Python back end workflows that drive network automation
• Validate data in Oracle/SQL using queries to confirm correctness and integrity
• Create test plans, test cases, and test data from requirements and user stories
• Log, triage, and track defects in Jira; work with developers to resolve them
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and report results
• Identify gaps in coverage and suggest improvements to testing processes
• Perform manual tests when automation is not feasible (pre- and post-release)

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Python and pytest
• Experience with Selenium for web UI automation
• Working knowledge of SQL (ideally Oracle)
• Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, React) and how to test them
• Experience using Jira for issue tracking and agile workflows
• Solid understanding of QA methodologies and the software test lifecycle
• Understanding of networking concepts (route/switch, firewalls, IP address management, proxy, load balancers, and other networking technologies)

Benefits

• Contract opportunity (6+ months)
• Hybrid schedule (2 days/week)