Software Automation Engineer

Title: Software Automation Engineer
Start Date: 08/06/2026
Bill Rate: $45/Hr
# of Openings: 1
Position Type: Contract to Hire
Locations: Ann Arbor MI
Additional Details:

LookingforacandidatewhostartedhiscareerasaJavaDeveloperandthenmovedintotesting.

Contract-to-hireautomationpositionthatwereopeningwhichrequirecandidatestobeworkingfromtheofficeforaminimumof4day/week.

Thecontractisintendedtobefor6months.

Conversionsalary$95-100K

USC/GC/EADonly

In-personinterviewatDominosAnnArborMI48105

Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled professional to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software automation with a focus on developing and maintaining test strategies and automated test suites. This role requires a collaborative approach to work closely with developers ensuring comprehensive testing across all application areas and providing technical solutions for test automation.

• Participate in developing and documenting User Stories by providing the test strategy and automation estimates.
• Develop document and maintain the test strategy and test scenarios.
• Build and execute unit component acceptance integration load security scalability usability and platform tests.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure consistency quality and reusability of test automation artifacts.
• Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation.
• Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments CI-CD pipelines and usage by NOC teams.
• Regularly execute maintain and upkeep automated test suites and analyze the results to identify the cause for failures.
• Create defects for issues found with appropriate details and ensure issues are resolved including validation of the fix and required automation updates.
• Present appropriate results to sign off on software functionality for new Production releases.
• Work with cross-team and release management to manage dev QA and production release of the software.
• Perform exploratory testing to understand the feature and how it is implemented to find additional or unexpected behavior and to refine and define additional test cases for the feature.
• Contribute to the QA automation framework using industry-standard tools and approaches.
• Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code.
• Participate in analyzing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those.

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 7 years of industry experience preferably in an Agile development environment.
• Must have 5 years of Java coding experience.

• Experience with automated testing tools - Cucumber/Gherkin Selenium Webdriver Playwright and Java.
• Experience in API automation testing using JAVA Springboot2 RestAssured GraphQL or Postman.
• Experience with JMS driven messaging protocols like AMQ RabbitMQ Kafka etc.
• Knowledge of MS Entity Framework/Spring JDBC.
• Experience with Service-oriented architecture.
• Knowledge working with CI/CD processes and tools - preferably Jenkins/JenkinsX.
• Experience with source control versioning tools and processes - Git / Stash.
• Experience in writing SQL queries for test data preparation as well as data validation.
• Experience with Splunk analytics for validating technical fixes and updates in the app code/config.
• Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA).
• Experience in manual testing.

• NICE TO HAVE - experience with querying Couchbase database.
• Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing. SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio is a plus.
• POS system experience is a plus.
• Nice to have experience with payment gateways and payment terminals.
• Nice to have experience with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment and operations.
• Ability to work independently with an aptitude for detailed work and follow-up activities.
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced agile work environment.
• Experience in heavy traffic eCommerce applications.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance retirement plans and opportunities for professional development. Join our team and contribute to exciting projects in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Required Skills:

JavaSelenium