Job Type: Contract

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Role: Quality Engineer – Automation
Location: San Francisco, CA / Oakland, CA
Type: Contract  

Role Overview
Driving quality gates across the SDLC with a heavy focus on automation, CI/CD alignment, and scalable test coverage. Partnering with engineering and product to ensure predictable, defect-free releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent).
• Build and execute automated test suites across UI, API, and integration layers.
• Enable shift-left testing practices and root-cause analysis.
• Own test strategy, coverage metrics, and quality KPIs.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, product, and DevOps teams.
• Perform regression, functional, performance, and smoke testing.
• Drive defect management and test documentation.

Required Skills

• 5–8 years in Quality Engineering with strong automation fundamentals.
• Hands-on with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, TestNG, JUnit, or similar.
• Strong exposure to API automation (Postman, Rest Assured).
• Solid grounding in Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments.
• Working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL for validation.
• Proven ability to scale frameworks and optimize execution.

Nice to Have

• Experience with performance tools (JMeter, Locust).
• Container and microservices testing exposure (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

Required Skills