Job Title: Senior Cypress QA Engineer
Location: Charlotte, NC onsite every week Tuesday & Wednesday
Duration: / Term: 12+ months – Contract
Job Description:
Experience Desired: 8+ Years.
Qualification:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Cypress Automation Engineer to join our dynamic QA Automation team. As a Senior engineer, you’ll play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust automated test suites for our consumer credit platform. You’ll work with modern testing frameworks and collaborate closely with development teams to ensure the highest quality standards across our applications.
This is an opportunity to lead automation initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to building a scalable, maintainable test infrastructure while leveraging emerging AI tools to enhance productivity and test coverage.
Responsibilities:
- Design & Develop comprehensive automated test scripts using Cypress and TypeScript, ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional, regression, and API testing scenarios
- Implement & Maintain end-to-end test automation frameworks that are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with industry best practices
- Conduct API Testing with expertise in REST/GraphQL APIs, including validation of payloads, authentication, authorization, and error handling
- Write & Optimize SQL Queries for database validation testing, data seeding, and backend verification as part of the automation test suite
- Leverage AI Tools (Claude, Copilot Studio, or similar) to enhance test script generation, identify edge cases, and improve test efficiency
- Collaborate with development teams, product managers, and other QA engineers to understand requirements and translate them into comprehensive test scenarios
- Lead & Mentor junior automation engineers, providing guidance on best practices, code reviews, and technical solutions
- Identify & Report defects with detailed logs, evidence, and reproducible steps; track and verify resolutions
- Ensure CI/CD Integration by maintaining automated tests within continuous integration pipelines and troubleshooting integration issues
- Performance & Security Testing – Contribute to performance and security testing efforts where applicable
- Documentation – Maintain clear documentation of test cases, frameworks, and procedures for team knowledge sharing
- 7+ years of professional experience in QA automation testing
- Cypress Automation Framework – Advanced proficiency with hands-on experience building and maintaining test suites
- TypeScript (First Preference) or JavaScript – Strong programming skills for writing scalable, maintainable test code
- API Testing – Proven expertise in REST API testing, including tools like Postman, Thunder Client, or similar; strong understanding of request-response validation, headers, authentication, and status codes
- SQL – Working knowledge of SQL for writing queries to validate data, seed test data, and perform backend verification
- Version Control – Git/GitHub or similar version control systems
- Testing Methodologies – Strong understanding of functional, regression, and end-to-end testing principles
- Problem-Solving – Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail
Key Skills:
Cypress, Automation testing, Typescript, SQL