QA Automation Engineer - NO C2C

Client: EdTech

Title: QA Automation Engineer

Duration: 6 Months (Contract to hire)

Location: 100% Remote

About the Opportunity  

·        As an Engineer IV (Senior QA Automation Engineer) focused on quality, you are responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of key scoring capabilities of College Board’s assessments through advanced testing strategies, automation frameworks and an advanced knowledge of QA best practices.

·        Leveraging your AWS expertise, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, you will analyze complex feature requirements, automate testing processes, and drive efficiencies.

·        Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to improving reliability and efficiency of systems.

·        This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, Agile environment and is eager to make a meaningful impact on the digital transformation of SAT, PSAT, and AP exams.

In this role, you will:

·        Design, develop, implement and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases and automated test suites

·        Collaborate with product managers and developers to review requirements and ensure testability

·        Design and develop automated testing frameworks for scoring products

·        Maintain CI/CD pipelines with integrated automated testing

·        Identify, recommend and implement tools to enhance testing efficiency

·        Conduct functional, regression, performance and security testing

·        Track and analyze test results, defect trends and root causes

·        Ensure compliance with quality and security standards

·        Collaborate with business and technical teams to translate data insights into actionable recommendations.

·        Develop and participate in the review of requirements, data mappings, user stories, and other artifacts, clearly communicating to both business and technical team members.

·        Assist in resolving production issues by troubleshooting and working with engineering teams to implement fixes.

·        Support functional testing by validating data accuracy, system behavior, and process integrity.

About you, you have

·        Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent

·        5+ years of professional experience in enterprise-wide software quality assurance 

·        Strong proficiency in test automation

·        Knowledge of scripting/programming languages/tools (e.g., JavaScript, Nodejs, cucumber, etc.)

·        Minimum of 1-2 years of hands-on experience working with AWS services, including Lambda, S3, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch and more

·        Experience with CI/CD tools

·        Understanding of Agile methodology with a willingness/ability to work in a DevOps environment.

Additional nice to have qualifications

·        Experience with TypeScript

·        Any experience applying AI-driven test automation or predictive analytics for defect detection

·        Hands-on experience with CI/CD and NoSQL

·        Skilled at creating/generating complex test data that aligns with business rules, covering edge cases and complex scenarios.