What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Automation QA Engineer position at Nous Infosystems?
Job Details
Automation Engineer
Austin, TX - Onsite
Responsibilities:
Test Automation & Engineering
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks for web, mobile, and API testing
- Implement automated suites that integrate into CI/CD pipelines and improve release confidence
- Leverage AI- and ML-powered testing tools to enhance coverage, speed, and overall QA intelligence
Manual & Exploratory Testing
- Conduct hands-on functional, regression, and exploratory testing across apps and platform
- Identify edge cases, user experience gaps, and defects through deep investigative testing
- Apply risk-based testing practices to prioritize where time and focus matter most
Quality Leadership & Collaboration
- Partner with engineering and product teams to define testing strategies throughout the development lifecycle
- Advocate for quality by raising risks early, validating requirements, and improving testability
- Take ownership of quality outcomes, proactively identifying gaps and guiding continuous improvement efforts
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Experiment with Generative AI tools to enhance efficiency and expand automation coverage
- Drive improvements to test frameworks, tooling, and processes across engineering teams
- Contribute ideas that impact product functionality, reliability, and customer experience, not just QA processes
Qualifications
- 8 years of combined automation and manual testing experience
- Proficiency in at least one programming language: TypeScript, Java, Python, or JavaScript
- Experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO, or Appium
- Strong understanding of manual testing, exploratory techniques, and risk-based testing
- Experience working in fast-paced startup or agile environments
- Interest in or experience with AI-powered and Generative AI testing tools
- Strong problem-solving skills and an inquisitive mindset
- Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and contribute beyond traditional QA responsibilities
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure
- Experience with data-driven testing or validating analytics pipelines
- Contributions to open-source testing tools or personal engineering projects
- Ability to write maintainable test code that supports long-term scalability
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Salary : $50 - $60