[W2 ONLY] SDET - Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

SDET
Python
AWS
CI/CD
CodePipeline
Azure DevOps
JavaScript
RESTful APIs
SQL
Service testing
Microservices
AWS S3
AWS Lambda
Cloudwatch
AWS SQS
AWS SNS
Playwright
Cypress

Job Details

Sr Quality Assurance Automation Engineer / Hybrid in Charlotte, NC

Contract / Contract-to-Hire

GENUINE CANDIDATES ONLY PLEASE

About our Customer & Role:

Our premium customer, a global Fortune 500 company & a leader in the Food & Vending Services industry is looking for a hands-on Automation Quality Engineer , to build and own the automation framework, focusing on backend validation, test data tooling, and end-to-end service integrity, take ownership of framework development, contribute to defining best practices, and help shape how modern, distributed systems are tested.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead test automation implementation across backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Design and build a test automation framework (using e.g.; Python, JavaScript/Node, or C#) for:
  • API/service testing
  • Data validation between legacy SQL Server and new cloud services
  • Smoke and regression test orchestration
  • Develop tools/utilities for test data creation, reset, and snapshot validation
  • Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Azure DevOps)
  • Write and maintain automated sanity checks for environment health after data resets or deployments
  • Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and functional QA testers on test coverage, environment readiness, and performance validation
  • Mentor junior QA engineers

 

Qualifications:

  • 7+ years in QA automation or software engineering in test (SDET), with backend/data-heavy systems
  • Proficient in Python or JavaScript for building test frameworks/tools
  • Strong in SQL and data validation ideally with Microsoft SQL Server
  • Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and containerized deployments
  • Familiarity with AWS services like S3, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch
  • Experience integrating with CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution
  • Clear understanding of TDD/BDD and how to implement those practices in real teams
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced Agile environments with incomplete information

Nice to Have:

  • Exposure to event-driven architectures (e.g., SQS, SNS, Step Functions)
  • Familiarity with data mocking/stubbing frameworks
  • Basic knowledge of UI testing tools like Playwright or Cypress
  • Previous experience in financial services or regulated data environments
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