QA Engineer / Automation Tester

DatamanUSA LLC is a full-service IT Solutions Company that provides a variety of technical, IT, professional and administrative support services to both State and Federal government agencies. We also support commercial Clients both large and small with staff augmentation and direct hire placement. If you are interested in this position and believe that this role is a great fit for your knowledge, skills, experience and career path.

Position: QA Engineer / Automation Tester

Client: Direct Client

Duration: 6+ Months (with high possibility of extension in FY)

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid - 3 days remote with 2 days (Mon & Thurs) required to be onsite)

Mode of Interview: In Person

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test scripts using Selenium.
• Build and enhance automation frameworks (data-driven, hybrid, or BDD).
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
• Analyze business requirements and create comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and architects to clarify requirements.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives).
• Perform API testing (manual and automated).
• Conduct defect tracking, root cause analysis, and impact assessment.
• Ensure CI/CD pipeline integration of automation suites.
• Provide test coverage analysis and quality metrics reporting.

Minimum Requirements:

Years-Required/Preferred-Experience

• 7-Required-Experience in Quality Assurance and testing
• 7-Required-Strong hands-on expertise in Selenium WebDriver and other automation tools
• 7-Required-Experience with Java (preferred) or C#/Python for automation scripting.
• 7-Required-Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch.
• 7-Required-Strong understanding of functional testing principles.
• 7-Required-Experience with: TestNG / JUnit / NUnit, Maven / Gradle, Git
• 7-Required-Experience integrating automation with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• 7-Required-Experience with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured, etc.).
• 7-Required-Strong SQL knowledge for backend validation.
• 6-Required-Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• 6-Required-Strong understanding of: Test planning and strategy, Test case design techniques (boundary value, equivalence partitioning), Regression strategy, Risk-based testing
• 6-Required-Ability to independently own testing for a feature/module.
• 7-Preferred-Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow).
• 7-Preferred-Experience with Selenium Grid / parallel execution.
• 7-Preferred-Experience testing cloud-based applications (Azure/AWS).
• 7-Preferred-Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter).
• 5-Preferred-Experience with containerization (Docker).
• 5-Preferred-Exposure to DevOps practices and shift-left testing.
• 5-Preferred-Experience in microservices architecture testing.
• 5-Preferred-Knowledge of security testing basics.