QA Automation Engineer

a core part of daily quality engineering work. WHAT YOU WILL DO - Build automated test frameworks for serverless applications; - Validate event-driven workflows and asynchronous messaging; - Execute performance and load testing; - Validate resiliency and failure scenarios; - Design, build, and maintain automated test suites covering functional, integration, and contract testing for middleware APIs and services ensuring correct behavior in isolation and across dependencies; - Leverage AI-assisted tools for test case generation, synthetic data creation, failure analysis, and coverage documentation; - Own performance and reliability validation including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, establishing baselines and identifying bottlenecks; - Partner with engineers throughout the development cycle to align on test strategy, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions; - Validate third-party integrations through contract testing, sandbox/staging

validation, and failure mode analysis; - Track and report quality metrics, maintain documentation, and contribute to incident post-mortems. MUST HAVES - 4+ years of quality engineering or software engineering experience focused on backend API testing; - Experience designing automated test suites for REST APIs in distributed or microservices environments; - Hands-on experience with performance and load testing; - Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Python; - Working knowledge of AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS); - Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions); - Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent); - Familiarity with contract testing approaches and consumer-driven contracts; - Strong analytical and root-cause analysis skills, including distinguishing flaky tests from real defects; - Experience validating asynchronous systems; - Strong scripting skills; - Clear communication and ability to translate test findings into engineering priorities; - Collaborative approach to working within engineering sprints; - Upper-intermediate English level. NICE TO HAVES - Experience with k6, Gatling, JMeter, or similar performance testing tools; - Postman/Newman experience; - Familiarity with Pact or other contract testing tools; - Cognito authentication testing experience; - Delivery and payment integration testing experience

AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards. WHY JOIN US If you’re looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we’d love to meet you ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality strategy for serverless middleware services powering ordering, loyalty, payments, and third-party integrations across a major consumer platform. You will design and maintain automated test suites for RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures on AWS, execute performance and load testing, validate partner integrations including delivery and payment platforms, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. The role expects active use of AI-assisted tools as