SDET / QA Automation Engineer - API & Database Testing

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience in QA automation, SDET, software testing, or a closely related engineering role.
• Strong experience testing REST APIs and building automated API test suites with Postman/Newman, Playwright, Pytest, Jest, or comparable tools.
• Strong SQL skills and experience validating database state, transactions, relationships, and downstream outcomes after workflow execution; SQL Server experience is strongly relevant.
• Programming or scripting ability in C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or a comparable language sufficient to build maintainable automated tests and utilities.
• Experience testing business-critical workflows, including positive, negative, boundary, failure-recovery, and regression scenarios.
• Ability to create test plans, trace acceptance criteria to test coverage, and write concise, reproducible defect reports.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or comparable tooling.
• Ability to troubleshoot across logs, API payloads, database records, and automated test results and communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical teammates.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with C#/.NET test frameworks such as xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest and API automation libraries used in the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Experience with API contract testing, performance or load testing, service virtualization, or production-readiness testing.
• Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or comparable browser-automation tools for targeted frontend regression coverage.
• Experience testing asynchronous processing, background workers, queues, retries, duplicate prevention, and eventual-consistency scenarios.
• Experience validating migrated systems through parallel testing, data reconciliation, workflow comparison, or business-rule verification activities.
• Experience working in environments where data integrity, migration validation, auditability, and operational continuity are critical. Industry-specific experience is beneficial but not required.
• ISTQB or a comparable software-testing certification.

COMPENSATION:

• The compensation range for this position is $105,000.00 to $125,000.00 annually

BENEFITS:

• 401(k) (18 or older)
• Paid Sick Leave (Full-Time)
• Paid Sick Leave (Part-Time) - per your State's requirements
• Insurance (Full-Time) - Medical, Dental, Vision Care
• Insurance (Part-Time) - Medical only (30+ hours/week)

Additional Benefits for Full-Time Only

• Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Pregnancy & New Parent Leave
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and matching
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Teledoc

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• No

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