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Job#: 3044171
Job Description:
QA Automation Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA | Hybrid (4 days onsite initially with increased flexibility over time)
Focus Areas: Test Automation | Cypress | Playwright | Selenium | Cucumber/Gherkin | SQL Data Validation | AWS Testing Environments
Team Environment: Partner with software engineering, product, and QA teams to deliver automated testing solutions and ensure application quality across multiple environments.
Our client is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to help drive quality across a complex enterprise application environment. This role combines automation development, backend data validation, and end-to-end testing in support of business-critical systems. The ideal candidate has strong experience with modern automation frameworks, SQL-based testing, and Agile software delivery practices.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at
Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at or . Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.
UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.
Job Description:
QA Automation Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA | Hybrid (4 days onsite initially with increased flexibility over time)
Focus Areas: Test Automation | Cypress | Playwright | Selenium | Cucumber/Gherkin | SQL Data Validation | AWS Testing Environments
Team Environment: Partner with software engineering, product, and QA teams to deliver automated testing solutions and ensure application quality across multiple environments.
Our client is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to help drive quality across a complex enterprise application environment. This role combines automation development, backend data validation, and end-to-end testing in support of business-critical systems. The ideal candidate has strong experience with modern automation frameworks, SQL-based testing, and Agile software delivery practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain automated test scenarios using Cucumber and Gherkin.
- Develop and execute automated tests using Cypress, Playwright, and Selenium.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Validate backend data and business processes using SQL.
- Support testing activities across AWS-hosted environments.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure release quality.
Required Qualifications
- 4-5 years of QA Automation, Software Testing, or SDET experience.
- Hands-on experience with multiple automation frameworks, including Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, and Cucumber/BDD practices.
- Experience creating feature files, step definitions, and automated test scenarios.
- Strong SQL skills for backend and data validation testing.
- Experience performing API testing using Postman, RestAssured, or similar tools.
- Experience testing enterprise applications within Agile delivery environments.
- Experience using Jira, ALM, or comparable test management and defect tracking tools.
- Experience developing automated tests using TypeScript, Java, or similar programming languages.
- Exposure to AWS or other cloud-based testing environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with AWS-hosted applications.
- Oracle and PostgreSQL experience.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience with performance, resiliency, or cloud validation testing.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at
Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at or . Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.
UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.
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