Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Able to Provide Sponsorship
Skills
SDET
Automation Engineer
Java
Kafka
API
database
SQL
Job Details
Job Summary:
We are seeking a results-driven Senior Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust test automation solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Java, Kafka, API testing, database testing, and SQL, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software in complex, data-driven environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure release quality, reliability, and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks and libraries using Java.
- Architect and implement end-to-end automated test suites for APIs, microservices, and data pipelines.
- Build and maintain Kafka-based messaging test scenarios, including producer/consumer flows, message schemas, and end-to-end validation.
- Perform thorough API testing (REST/GraphQL) including contract testing, negative testing, performance/load testing, and error-handling validation.
- Conduct comprehensive database testing across SQL/NoSQL systems: data integrity, migrations, ETL validation, stored procedures, and data quality checks.
- Integrate test automation with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent) for nightly/continuous testing.
- Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, and product owners to define testing strategies, acceptance criteria, and quality gates.
- Identify, track, and drive remediation of defects; provide clear, actionable defect reports and dashboards.
- Champion testability improvements and help shape architecture decisions to facilitate reliable testing.
- Mentor and coach junior automation engineers; share best practices and code reviews.
- Monitor and optimize test performance, test data management, and environment provisioning.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Java (JUnit/TestNG), design patterns, and best practices for test automation.
- Extensive experience with Apache Kafka: producing/consuming messages, topics, schemas (Avro/JSON), and end-to-end message flow testing.
- API testing expertise (REST, GraphQL) with tools like Postman, REST-assured, or equivalent; experience with contract testing (e.g., Pact) is a plus.
- Deep knowledge of database testing: SQL query writing, data validation, integrity checks, and experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and/or NoSQL where applicable.
- Strong SQL skills: complex joins, aggregations, window functions, data normalization/denormalization validation.
- Experience with test data management, test doubles/makes, and mock services.
- Familiarity with performance and load testing concepts and tools.
- CI/CD experience and experience integrating automated tests into pipelines.
- Debugging skills, strong problem-solving, and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work in agile environments.
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