Job Description: Test Automation Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $70,000 - $180,000 a year (Actual compensation may vary)

Doran Jones is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to join a highly skilled Agile team. You will be working to support a nationwide financial services firm, relying on a robust QA and test engineering stack. Their tools include Selenium and Cypress for UI testing, JUnit and TestNG for unit testing, Postman for API validation, and Jenkins for CI/CD. They prioritize test automation, performance, and reliability across environments. Be part of a transformative initiative, modernizing legacy systems into scalable, secure, and efficient cloud-based solutions. Work with a cutting-edge tech stack while contributing to impactful projects in the financial services and auto finance sectors.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in full-stack testing, including both manual and automation testing.
• Java Coding: Strong general-purpose Java coding experience – intermediate to senior (e.g., designing concepts such as OOP; libraries like pandas, techniques like profiling, regex, collections, exception handling patterns, introspection, advanced data structures, others).
• Cloud Technologies: Experience with Cloud technologies, including AWS and/or Azure.
• IaaC: Experience with IaaC, including Terraform.
• Selenium: Strong knowledge of Selenium.
• SQL: Strong knowledge of SQL, including transaction processing concepts, and large-scale dataset manipulation for test initialization.
• Testing Tools: Familiarity with JMeter/Load runner/Soap UI.
• Other Technologies: Understanding of browser event model and DOM, HTML5/CSS3, Excel, webservices, XML/HTML parsing, distributed version control systems, JIRA, shell, and scripting.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), presentation, client management skills, and forensic attention to detail.
• CI/CD: Good understanding of CI/CD concepts, tools, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to understand product requirements.
• Ensure comprehensive manual testing coverage, including agreement on acceptance criteria and scripting.
• Develop and document comprehensive test plans based on project requirements and timelines.
• Design, create, and maintain detailed, comprehensive, well-structured test cases.
• Define QA standards in collaboration with development teams and third parties.
• Establish and maintain Test Data Management processes, standards, and automation.
• Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results.
• Perform regression testing to ensure new changes do not adversely affect existing functionalities.
• Lead the development of Automated Testing Scripts, regression testing, and smoke testing strategies.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts using various testing tools and frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline.

Technologies Used

• UI Testing: Selenium, Cypress
• Unit Testing: JUnit, TestNG
• API Validation: Postman
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure
• Infrastructure as Code (IaaC): Terraform
• Database: SQL
• Performance/Load Testing: JMeter, Load Runner, Soap UI
• Data Handling: XML/HTML Parsing
• Project Management: JIRA
• Scripting: Shell Scripting