Test Automation Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• 3 to 6 years of software quality engineering, SDET, or test automation experience
• Hands-on experience developing automated tests, rather than primarily executing existing automated suites.
• Candidates must be comfortable writing automation code. Experience limited to executing automated tests or using record-and-playback tools will not meet the requirements of this position.
• Strong experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or a comparable code-based automation framework.
• Programming experience with Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or a comparable language.
• Experience building, enhancing, or maintaining reusable test automation frameworks and components.
• Hands-on API automation experience, ability to write automated REST API tests, using REST Assured, Playwright, Cypress, Karate, PyTest, or similar tools.
• Strong SQL and database validation experience.
• Experience testing applications across UI, API, service, and database layers.
• Experience incorporating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Experience developing and maintaining smoke and regression automation suites.
• Experience troubleshooting failed automated tests and improving automation reliability.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Property and Casualty insurance experience.
• Guidewire InsuranceSuite experience.
• Experience using AI-assisted development or testing tools.
• Experience with BDD, Cucumber, TestNG, PyTest, or Page Object Model.
• Experience with cloud-based or microservices applications.

Job Description

We are seeking a hands-on Test Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions for full-stack business applications for an Insurance company in NJ. This role requires strong programming and automation skills. The engineer will personally develop automated tests and reusable automation components. The ideal candidate has experience automating UI, API, and backend testing and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines. This position also includes functional and exploratory testing. However, automated test development will be a significant part of the role.

The role will focus on:

• Personally write and maintain automation code for UI, APIs, integrations, and backend services.
• Design reusable automation components that improve regression coverage.
• Build automation for new features during Agile sprint development.
• Approximately 50 to 70 percent of this role will involve hands-on development, maintenance, and execution of automated tests; with the possibility of even more automation towards the end of 2027.
• Identify high-value manual scenarios for conversion into automated tests.
• Develop automated API tests and validate data through SQL queries.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain reliable smoke and regression suites.
• Analyze failed automated tests and distinguish product defects from automation failures.
• Reduce flaky tests and improve automation stability.
• Review existing automation coverage and identify coverage gaps.
• Perform exploratory and functional testing where automation is inappropriate.
• Participate in test strategy and release planning with developers, product owners, and analysts.
• Help establish quality gates for software releases.

This role is hybrid, 3 days in-office in the client's Ewing, NJ office.

Compensation:

$105K to $116K per year annual salary. Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. Benefits are provided.