QA Automation Engineer

Our client, a IT Services and Consullting company, is looking for a QA Automation Engineer for their Tampa, FL location.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites with a strong emphasis on UI automation using Selenium and/or Playwright, and BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.
• Build and execute automation scripts across web UI, API, and backend validation; ensure tests are reliable, maintainable, and scalable.
• Define test strategy by decomposing business and technical requirements into test scenarios, test data needs, and contingency plans.
• Own test planning and execution: test case execution plans, defect management, reporting/status metrics, and release sign-offs.
• Validate REST services through functional, regression, and integration testing to ensure reliable, end-to-end coverage.
• Perform database testing in Oracle (SQL validation, data reconciliation, stored procedure outcomes as applicable).
• Validate batch jobs and end-to-end workflows (scheduling, file/data handoffs, downstream impacts).
• Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies as the team's quality advocate; proactively identify defects early in each sprint/iteration.
• Use and contribute to SDLC tooling such as Jira (test cycle management/defects), Git, and CI tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bitbucket pipelines).

• Years of experience: 8 to 10 years
• Skills: Playwright, Python, Cucumber BDD, Selenium, Java, Rest API, DB2
• What are the top 3 skills required for this role:
• Automation framework enhancement skills, Playwright, Python, Cucumber BDD, Selenium, Java, Rest API, DB2 testing experience.
• Utilization of test automation tools, to enable the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing is required.
• Ability to liaise effectively between lines of business with empathy and understanding to achieve the common and strategic goal as a team.
• Additional Information:
• Agile Team Structure. Candidate will be working closely with Dev leads / Product Owners and client stakeholders and providing hands on test automation solutions.
• Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  
• 8-12 Years of Experience

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities