Senior Automation Engineer (GraphQL and API Test)
Contract W2
No Travel Required
Hybrid
$65 - $70/hr
Avacend, Inc.
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Skills
- API QA
- GraphQL
- HP LoadRunner
- Banking
- Appium
- RESTful
- Python
- Load Testing
- TypeScript
- Testing
- Leadership
- Automated Testing
- Test Suites
- API
- Product Design
- Test Strategy
- Software Release Life Cycle
Summary
ole: Senior Automation Engineer (GraphQL and API Testing)
Location: Charlotte - 601 S. Tryon Street (601 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202)
Duration: Till Dec,31st 2026 with extension Possible
Interview:
- Candidates to perform technical assessment - hiring manager will review test results - Candidates who move on will do a 30-60 minutes zoom interview - Review again
- In-person Interview: Final in-office interview ~30 minutes
Top 3 Soft Skills: -
- Leadership potential - Highly communicative - Curious about emerging technologies
Top 3 Hard Skills:
- Deep understanding of APIs, modern technological approaches to testing
- High degree of programming experience in Typescript or Python –
- Understanding of GraphQL and modern AI topics such as agents/mcp/etc
Responsibilities
- Help create a culture that motivates teams to ensure zero defects into production
- Work across teams to understand enterprise quality requirements and ensure adoption of core processes and standards
- Implement the shift-left test strategy as the organization rearchitects our technology platform
- Partner with DevOps engineers to fully automate testing throughout the release & delivery processes in the CI/CD pipeline
- Leverage market-leading automation frameworks and tools across all levels of testing that integrate in the automated CI/CD pipeline
- Participate in product design reviews ensuring quality practices are baked into the software development and deployment life cycle
- Work with internal teams to document test environment and test data management container strategies and provisioning for the different types of testing activities
- Comprehend and decompose user stories/requirements to identify what tests need to be created and automated across all levels of testing
- Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in test automation engineering with API based testing
- Preferred BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject
Required Experience:
- Proficiency writing code in TypeScript/JavaScript
- Proficiency with GraphQL testing, graph schema validation
- Proficiency with RestAPI testing best practices
- Experience with AWS services: CloudWatch, Lambda, DynamoDB
- Experience with build systems and CI/CD: GIT, GitLab, Docker
- Experience with load testing technologies and best practices: LoadRunner, Gatling
- Automating API testing and extensive knowledge of creating and leveraging mocks, stubs, and virtual services to fulfill test automation requirements
- Experience with market tools: Postman/Insomnia
- Experience with open-source testing frameworks: Jest
Preferred Experience with:
- Strong knowledge of relation databases, SQL
- Good understanding of mobile automation with Appium being a plus
- Good understanding of python programming language
- Understanding of functional front-end automation:
- Selenium
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Familiarity with Agile Frameworks and regression testing
- Financial services technology/ consumer banking testing experience
- Automating tests for the full solution stack (unit, business logic, contract, usability, functional, performance)
Extensive knowledge of:
- White Box Testing practices
- Software Engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous integration, and continuous deployment concepts (CI & CD), and test suite development and maintenance
- Must be able to provide hands-on training for existing testers in writing and using automation scripts and ensuring best practices are followed
- Possesses a deep understanding of shift-left test practices and techniques along with the frameworks, and tools that support it
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Enthusiastic and energetic with an inherent curiosity to break code
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: PZP91081408zzzz
- Position Id: 8911101
- Posted 2 hours ago
Company Info
About Avacend, Inc.
Our mission is customer centric, we are successful when our customers are successful.
Our Vision is to connect great companies with good employees and create opportunities for all by providing the best quality of human resource services. We measure our success by the satisfaction of our customers by empowering them to focus on what they do best.
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