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Job Description: Lead Automation Quality Engineer (Backend-Focused)
Location: Remote
Duration:
6 months (Contract with possible extension)
Overview:
We’re building a next-gen financial processing platform modernizing a complex, legacy SQL Server system into cloud-native microservices. We need a hands-on QA automation lead to build and own the automation framework, focusing on backend validation, test data tooling, and end-to-end service integrity.
This is a greenfield QA automation initiative ideal for someone who thrives in a startup-like, build-from-scratch environment. You’ll be the hands-on lead for automation implementation, working closely with the QA Manager to bring the strategy to life. This role is perfect for someone who wants to take ownership of framework development, contribute to defining best practices, and help shape how modern, distributed systems are tested.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead test automation implementation across backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
- Design and build a test automation framework (language open, e.g., Python, JavaScript/Node, or C#) for:
- API/service testing
- Data validation between legacy SQL Server and new cloud services
- Smoke and regression test orchestration
- Develop tools/utilities for test data creation, reset, and snapshot validation
- Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Azure DevOps)
- Write and maintain automated sanity checks for environment health after data resets or deployments
- Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and functional QA testers on test coverage, environment readiness, and performance validation
- Mentor junior QA engineers
Must-Have Qualifications:
- 5-7+ years in QA automation or software engineering in test (SDET), with backend/data-heavy systems
- Proficient in Python or JavaScript for building test frameworks/tools
- Strong in SQL and data validation – ideally with Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and containerized deployments
- Familiarity with AWS services like S3, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch
- Experience integrating with CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution
- Clear understanding of TDD/BDD and how to implement those practices in real teams
- Comfortable working in fastpaced Agile environments with incomplete information