QA Automation Engineer

Note : Looking Local Candidates of AZ

Position : QA Engineer

Location : Phoenix ,AZ

Position id : 8737

Client : State of Arizona

3+ years in a technical leadership or lead automation engineer role. MUST have Leadership experience
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin or Cucumber
JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Ruby experience
Experience with Spring Framework

The Impact
Lead the quality platform behind mission-critical software at ASRS. Partner directly with architects to fix today's framework pain, modernize our stack, and hard-wire a true shift-left culture while piloting AI-assisted testing to boost coverage, speed, and confidence.
What You'll Do

• Own the quality platform: Set strategy, architecture, and standards for automation Java today, with pragmatic evolution to modern UI/API automation where it improves reliability.
• Embed quality early: Drive PR-level tests, contract/API checks, and CI/CD quality gates for rapid, trusted developer feedback.
• Apply AI where it counts: Use AI/LLM-assisted test generation, self-healing locators, flake triage, and test-impact analysis to reduce toil and raise signal.
• Simplify the SDLC: With DevOps, streamline pipelines, test data management, environment provisioning, and release guardrails for faster flow.
• Solve hard problems with architects: Tackle cross-cutting issues (auth, data, performance, flakiness) and retire tech debt with durable solutions.
• Build the right tests: Expand reliable web/UI, API, and integration coverage; harden environments and test data.
• Coach and elevate: Mentor QA engineers, review automation code, and set standards for readability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Measure what matters: Stand up live dashboards (coverage, pass/fail, flakiness, MTTR) to inform decisions and continuously raise the bar.
• Own root cause: Lead deep-dive debugging across test and prod, driving prevention not just fixes.

Your Toolbox (What We Use & Value)

• Languages/Frameworks: Java, JUnit, Maven; BDD with Cucumber/Gherkin.
• Automation: Selenium WebDriver (today); informed experience with Playwright (Java/TypeScript) a plus.
• CI/CD & SCM: Jenkins, GitHub Actions; GitHub for collaboration.
• Observability & Metrics: Grafana (quality and performance dashboards).
• Backend/Platform context: Spring Boot/Spring Security; Oracle DB; FileNet/content systems.
• Scripting: PowerShell or similar for utilities.
• Quality practices: Testing pyramid, risk-based design, code reviews, and environment parity.

Where We're Headed (And Where You'll Lead)

• GitHub-native CI/CD: Standardize on GitHub pipelines for frequent, automated deployments define branch strategy, environment promotions, and reusable workflows that make shipping safe by default.
• Reliable testing for high velocity: Build a strategy that scales with cadence PR checks, contract/API tests, fast UI smoke suites, test-impact analysis, deterministic data & ephemeral envs, parallelization, and rigorous flake control.
• AI-assisted, data-driven quality: Apply LLM-assisted test generation/self-healing and enforce quality gates backed by live dashboards (coverage, flakiness, MTTR, DORA) to boost signal and confidence.
• Framework evolution (tool-agnostic): Evaluate and pilot modern UI/API automation options against clear criteria (reliability, speed, parity, maintainability, ROI) and recommend phased adoption that protects delivery.

What You Bring

• 10+ years in QA/automation with 5+ years leading/architecting frameworks.
• Proven success embedding automated quality gates into CI/CD for high-velocity releases.
• Track record mentoring engineers and raising the bar on code quality and test design.
• Comfort collaborating with architects and senior engineers on systemic quality problems.

Nice-To-Have

• Experience introducing AI tooling (e.g., Copilot, test-gen, self-healing) into real teams.
• Performance, security, or contract-testing exposure.

Work Setup & Logistics

• Hybrid: Mostly remote; design/whiteboard sessions in Phoenix as needed.
• Equipment: Personal laptop required; Windows workstation provided for remote access.
• Eligibility: Must be AZ-local and able to work for any U.S. employer (no sponsorship).

Why Join Us?

• Real autonomy, minimal red tape. Engineers here actually choose and implement the right tech. If you can justify it, you can ship it fast.

• All-local teams, zero offshoring. Your partners sit in the same time zone, so feedback loops are tight and handoffs are clean.
• Remote after onboarding. Following an initial training period in Phoenix, work remotely with periodic onsite whiteboarding/design sessions.
• Direct access to decision-makers. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with architects and a hands-on technical management team that co-creates assignments with you no telephone game.
• Mandate to simplify & automate. We're actively streamlining the SDLC across Dev, QA, and DevOps so you'll lead the push on test frameworks, CI/CD, environment management, and quality gates.
• Engaged core hours. This isn't a background tab. We expect full engagement during our core business hours so the team can move quickly together.