What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Automation Lead position at Raas Infotek LLC?
Job Details
Title: QA Automation Engineer / SDET Lead
Location: Columbus, OH (Hybrid, Locals preferred)
Duration: 12 Months
Contract: W2 Only (No C2C/1099)
About the Role
We are looking for a seasoned QA Automation Engineer / SDET Lead to design and implement robust test automation frameworks, ensure product quality, and lead a team of engineers in delivering high-quality software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Define test strategy across unit, integration, API, UI, performance, and security testing.
- Establish quality gates and metrics (requirements coverage, defect density, release health).
- Lead planning for test data management and environment parity.
- Design modular, maintainable, and scalable automation frameworks (POM, SOLID principles).
- Implement parallel execution, reporting (Allure/Extent), flaky test management.
- Integrate automated suites into pipelines (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins).
- Enable shift-left with PR-based checks, smoke tests, and nightly regressions.
- Build comprehensive API test suites (REST/GraphQL) with REST Assured, Postman, or Playwright API.
- Implement contract testing (e.g., Pact), mock services/stubs, and validate message queues.
- Design performance scenarios (load, stress, soak) using JMeter/Locust.
- Monitor and investigate performance regressions using observability tooling.
- Mentor SDETs/QA engineers, conduct code/test reviews, and drive best practices.
- Partner with Product and Dev to define acceptance criteria; advocate for BDD where valuable.
- Facilitate RCA, create prevention strategies, and improve test design to reduce escapes.
Required Qualifications
- 12 years in QA/SDET roles, including leading automation initiatives.
- Strong programming in Java/JavaScript/Python/C#; clean code practices.
- Hands-on with Selenium, Playwright or Cypress; Appium for mobile (preferred).
- API testing (REST Assured, Postman, Playwright API), contract testing (Pact).
- Frameworks: TestNG/JUnit, Mocha/Jest, PyTest, Cucumber (BDD).
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins, Docker; familiarity with Kubernetes.
- Databases & data validation (SQL), test data generation/masking.
- Agile/Scrum, story-level test planning, traceability, and risk-based testing.
- Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform), infrastructure-as-code basics (Terraform).
- Security testing knowledge (OWASP Top 10).
- Experience with feature flags, A/B testing, and canary releases.
- Exposure to Kafka/RabbitMQ, GraphQL, and WebSockets testing.
- Strong ownership, communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring.
- Analytical thinking, troubleshooting, and a bias for automation.
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