Senior Automation Engineer (API) - Charlotte, NC

Top 3 Soft Skills:

• Leadership potential
• Highly communicative
• Curious about emerging technologies

Top 3 Hard Skills:

• Deep understanding of APIs, modern technological approaches to testing
• High degree of programming experience in Typescript or Python
• Understanding of GraphQL and modern AI topics such as agents/mcp/etc

Responsibilities

• Help create a culture that motivates teams to ensure zero defects into production
• Work across teams to understand enterprise quality requirements and ensure adoption of core processes and standards
• Implement the shift-left test strategy as the organization rearchitects our technology platform
• Partner with DevOps engineers to fully automate testing throughout the release & delivery processes in the CI/CD pipeline
• Leverage market-leading automation frameworks and tools across all levels of testing that integrate in the automated CI/CD pipeline
• Participate in product design reviews ensuring quality practices are baked into the software development and deployment life cycle
• Work with internal teams to document test environment and test data management container strategies and provisioning for the different types of testing activities
• Comprehend and decompose user stories/requirements to identify what tests need to be created and automated across all levels of testing
• Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in test automation engineering with API based testing
• Preferred BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject

Required Experience:

• Proficiency writing code in TypeScript/JavaScript
• Proficiency with GraphQL testing, graph schema validation
• Proficiency with RestAPI testing best practices
• Experience with AWS services:
  • CloudWatch, Lambda, DynamoDB
• Experience with build systems and CI/CD:
  • GIT, GitLab, Docker
• Experience with load testing technologies and best practices:
  • LoadRunner, Gatling
• Automating API testing and extensive knowledge of creating and leveraging mocks, stubs, and virtual services to fulfill test automation requirements
• Experience with market tools:
  • Postman/Insomnia
• Experience with open-source testing frameworks:
  • Jest

Preferred Experience with:

• Strong knowledge of relation databases, SQL
• Good understanding of mobile automation with Appium being a plus
• Good understanding of python programming language
• Understanding of functional front-end automation:
  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • Cypress
• Familiarity with Agile Frameworks and regression testing
• Financial services technology/ consumer banking testing experience
• Automating tests for the full solution stack (unit, business logic, contract, usability, functional, performance)

Extensive knowledge of:

• White Box Testing practices
• Software Engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous integration, and continuous deployment concepts (CI & CD), and test suite development and maintenance
• Must be able to provide hands-on training for existing testers in writing and using automation scripts and ensuring best practices are followed
• Possesses a deep understanding of shift-left test practices and techniques along with the frameworks, and tools that support it
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Enthusiastic and energetic with an inherent curiosity to break code