Senior QA Engineer — Functional & Automation

Location: - Princeton NJ

Salary range: - $100000 - $120000K / Annum with Benefits

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute functional test cases; validate data directly via SQL.
• Build extend and refactor the core automation framework (UI API and service layers).
• Own the AWS automation framework permanently fix cloud failure modes (container restarts load balancer timeouts DB connectivity and connection-pool exhaustion S3/SQS integration IAM/credential expiry config drift) rather than re-running or masking them.
• Harden environment provisioning seeding teardown and secrets management so runs start from a known-good baseline.
• Implement resilience in the framework retry with backoff health checks and readiness gates graceful handling of transient cloud failures.
• Improve the end-to-end AWS regression process reduce runtime via parallelisation and sharding drive down flaky tests against measurable targets and add failure trend dashboards and automatic artefact capture.
• Analyse logs and stack traces to isolate root cause; classify failures as product defect script defect test data environment or timing.
• Integrate and maintain suites in CI/CD; partner with DevOps and Development to clear infrastructure blockers and communicate risk.

Required Skills

• 8 years QA across functional and automation.
• Strong Java able to write and debug framework code not just scripts.
• Selenium Cucumber/BDD solid SQL.
• Proven experience debugging fixing and improving automation frameworks in AWS (EC2/ECS S3 SQS RDS CloudWatch IAM).
• Track record of measurably reducing regression runtime and flakiness.
• Jenkins/CI-CD Maven Git.
• Strong analytical mindset; able to work Consultantly through intermittent ambiguous failures.