Senior QA Automation Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail oriented QA Automation Engineer (Contractor) to join our IT department. This role is ideal for someone with deep experience in building and maintaining automated test frameworks using SpecFlow, C#, and Gherkin, and who thrives in a fast-paced Agile environment. The QA Automation Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our next-generation cloud-native enterprise applications by driving automation strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and championing best practices in behavior-driven development (BDD). This is an exciting opportunity to shape testing standards, modernize legacy frameworks, and contribute directly to the success of a strategic technology transformation. Extend and troubleshoot automated testing and behavior driven development (BDD) frameworks for .NET applications.

• Analyze existing libraries of executable specifications (e.g., Gherkin) to improve test resilience and refactor incorrect or unnecessary steps.
• Contribute to defining standards for test cases to ensure clarity, consistency, and effectiveness.
• Use established standards to design and implement a modern cloud native test framework to replace legacy SpecFlow-based automation.
• Participate in the design and architecture of a next-generation, cloud-native enterprise application to: Ensure adherence to test automation standards,
• Ensure test automation is developed in parallel with application components.
• Collaborate cross functionally with developers, product owners, and QA team members in an Agile Scrum environment to ensure highquality software delivery.
• Conduct functional, regression, performance, and exploratory testing for critical application workflows, with a focus on automated execution.
• Ensure coverage of usability, accessibility, and security testing as part of automation strategy.
• Coordinate with internal business stakeholders and QA peers to facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT), including data validation and business rules alignment.
• Actively identify inefficiencies in test automation pipelines or regression coverage and propose improvements to increase test robustness and execution speed.

Knowledge & Experience Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in automated software testing with emphasis on BDD and cloud-based environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Selenium / ChromeDriver.
• 5+ years building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
• 5+ years using Visual Studio / VS Code

Nice to Have:

• Experience with non-functional testing such as accessibility, performance, or security automation.
• Familiarity with tools like Tosca or alternative test orchestration platforms.
• Exposure to test data management tools or synthetic test data generation