QA Automation (Cucumber) - Westerville, OH / Naveen

Title : QA Automation

Location: Westerville, OH

Onsite

Type: Contract to hire

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites using Cucumber (BDD), ensuring readable feature definitions and maintainable step implementations across teams.
• Execute and automate functional, integration, regression, and API testing, balancing breadth of coverage with risk-based prioritization
• Identify, document, and track defects with high-fidelity reproduction steps and evidence, partnering with developers to drive root-cause resolution
• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test datafor both manual and automated testing, ensuring traceability from requirements to validation.
• Analyze automation outcomes and publish clear reporting on quality metrics, including pass/fail trends, flaky-test rates, defect leakage signals, and coverage evolution.
• Continuously improve test effectiveness and efficiency by reducing flakiness, improving environmental stability, and optimizing execution time and parallelization.
• Contribute to test automation and QA best practices, including coding standards, framework patterns, review practices, and reusable components.
• Collaborate effectively with Product & Tech teams during Testing phases, coordinating triage, readiness, and defect closure to support timely releases.
• Apply performance engineering concepts as needed, partnering with performance specialists and/or implementing baseline performance checks where appropriate.

Required Qualifications

• Formal training and/or certification in software engineering concepts and 3+ years of applied experience in test automation and quality engineering.
• Experience in at least one of the following: .NET, Java, or JavaScript, with the ability to write clean, testable, production-grade automation code.
• Hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks, including Cucumber and at least one of Selenium or Playwright, and an understanding of how to architect maintainable test frameworks.
• Proficiency in API testing and associated tooling, such as Rest Assured and/or Postman/Bruno, including authentication handling, contract validation, and negative-path testing.

Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, bringing structured problem-solving skills