Lead Automation Tester

Role Summary

• Title: Cypress Automation QA Engineer (BDD/Gherkin)
• Mission: To build, scale, and maintain front-end test automation for React-based applications using Cypress with a BDD/Gherkin workflow. Integrate tests into CI/CD, reduce flakiness, and provide high-signal quality feedback for releases.
• Primary focus: React UI automation (E2E and component testing) with Cypress.
• API testing: Yes. Validate REST APIs consumed by the frontend using Cypress (cy.request) and/or Postman/MSW. Light contract testing is a plus.

Top Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Cypress automation for React apps (TypeScript), covering E2E, integration, and component tests.
• Author Gherkin feature files and step definitions; align tests with product acceptance criteria and living documentation.
• Build and evolve the automation framework: project structure, custom commands, fixtures/test data, environment configuration, stable selectors, and utilities.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD (parallelization, retries, test dashboards, flaky test detection, reporting).
• Perform API testing for frontend-consumed endpoints REST, including authentication flows, data setup/cleanup, and error handling.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and product to refine testability, review PRs, triage failures, and drive root cause analysis.
• Establish and enforce best practices (selector strategy, intercept/mocking, accessibility checks, performance smoke, cross-browser runs).
• Track coverage and risk; propose automation strategies to maximize impact while minimizing maintenance.

Must-have qualifications

• 3 5+ years in QA automation with React/JavaScript/TypeScript; 2+ years hands-on with Cypress (v10+), including component and E2E testing.
• Strong experience testing React applications (SPAs or Next.js) and familiarity with common patterns (hooks, state management, routing).
• Proven BDD/Gherkin experience with Cypress cucumber preprocessor (e.g., @badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor), writing clear feature files and maintainable step definitions.
• API testing for REST/GraphQL: cy.request, authentication (OAuth/OIDC/JWT), request/response validation, Postman/Newman.
• CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI) with test parallelization, artifacts, and reporting.
• Solid understanding of test design techniques (boundary, equivalence, negative/state-based testing) and strategies to reduce flakiness.
• Expertise in Cypress intercept/mocking, stubs, fixtures; network conditioning and time controls.
• Git proficiency and code review experience; Agile/Scrum collaboration.

Nice-to-have skills

• React Testing Library, Jest/, vitest, and Cypress Testing Library; MSW for network mocking.
• Accessibility testing (axe-core) and basic performance checks (Lighthouse).
• Cross-browser Cypress runs (Chrome/Firefox) and containerized test execution.
• Experience with micro-frontends or Storybook-driven component testing.

Tools we use or expect familiarity with

• Cypress (E2E + component), React, Vite, Javascript, TypeScript, Node.js
• @badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor or similar
• GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins)
• Jira/Confluence or similar
• Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI
• Cypress
• Cypress cloud enterprise or project reporting
• Whimsical
• Figma