AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.
WHY JOIN US
If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a
Senior QA Automation Engineer
to own quality strategy for serverless middleware services powering ordering, loyalty, payments, and third-party integrations across a major consumer platform. You will design and maintain automated test suites for RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures on AWS, execute performance and load testing, validate partner integrations including delivery and payment platforms, and integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. The role expects active use of AI-assisted tools as a core part of daily quality engineering work.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Build automated test frameworks for serverless applications;
- Validate event-driven workflows and asynchronous messaging;
- Execute performance and load testing;
- Validate resiliency and failure scenarios;
- Design, build, and maintain automated test suites covering functional, integration, and contract testing for middleware APIs and services ensuring correct behavior in isolation and across dependencies;
- Leverage AI-assisted tools for test case generation, synthetic data creation, failure analysis, and coverage documentation;
- Own performance and reliability validation including load, stress, spike, and soak testing, establishing baselines and identifying bottlenecks;
- Partner with engineers throughout the development cycle to align on test strategy, acceptance criteria, and CI/CD integration via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions;
- Validate third-party integrations through contract testing, sandbox/staging validation, and failure mode analysis;
- Track and report quality metrics, maintain documentation, and contribute to incident post-mortems.
MUST HAVES
- 4+ years of quality engineering or software engineering experience focused on backend API testing;
- Experience designing automated test suites for
REST APIs
in distributed or microservices environments;
- Hands-on experience with
performance and load testing
;
- Proficiency in
JavaScript/TypeScript
,
Java
, or
Python
;
- Working knowledge of
AWS serverless services
(
Lambda
,
API Gateway
,
DynamoDB
,
SQS/SNS
);
- Experience integrating automated tests into
CI/CD pipelines
(
Azure DevOps
,
GitHub Actions
);
- Proficiency with
AI-assisted development tools
(
GitHub Copilot
,
Claude
, or equivalent);
- Familiarity with contract testing approaches and consumer-driven contracts;
- Strong analytical and root-cause analysis skills, including distinguishing flaky tests from real defects;
- Experience validating asynchronous systems;
- Strong scripting skills;
- Clear communication and ability to translate test findings into engineering priorities;
- Collaborative approach to working within engineering sprints;
- Upper-intermediate English level.
NICE TO HAVES
- Experience with k6, Gatling, JMeter, or similar performance testing tools;
- Postman/Newman experience;
- Familiarity with Pact or other contract testing tools;
- Cognito authentication testing experience;
- Delivery and payment integration testing experience;
- Experience with DoorDash, Uber Eats, or similar marketplace APIs;
- Chaos engineering and fault injection (AWS FIS or similar);
- Observability tooling experience (Dynatrace, Datadog, CloudWatch);
- Multi-region AWS testing and failover/latency validation;
- Background in QSR, retail, or e-commerce domains;
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate or higher.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
-
Professional growth
: Mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.
-
Competitive compensation
: USD-based pay with education, fitness, and team activity budgets.
-
Exciting projects
: Modern solutions with Fortune 500 and top product companies.
-
Flextime
: Flexible schedule with remote and office options.
