QA Automation Engineer

Location: Boston, MA Salary: $65.00 USD Hourly - $75.00 USD Hourly Description:
Position Summary
This role supports an IT QA Automation initiative with a focus on defining, reviewing, assessing, and implementing an automation framework for testing Windows UI applications.
The engineer will:

• Collaborate with QA and application engineering teams.
• Evaluate and select automation tools and frameworks.
• Design scalable automation solutions.
• Streamline test execution processes.
• Improve overall QA effectiveness.
• Extend automation coverage to web-based applications.
• Integrate automation with test management and tracking tools.

Required Experience & Technical Background

• Expertise implementing and supporting automation frameworks, especially for Windows UI applications.
• Experience scripting and automating tests for Windows and web applications.
• Strong understanding of QA best practices, methodologies, tools, and metrics.
• SaaS and Cloud application testing experience.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure concepts.
• Ability to collaborate, mentor, and share knowledge with team members.
• Experience developing and implementing UI automation for:
  • Windows Applications
  • Web Applications
• Experience driving testing innovation and process improvement.
• Programming and scripting experience using:
  • C#
  • .NET
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • PowerShell
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL query development.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as:
  • AWS
  • Azure
• Experience with ERP applications.
• Experience with transit scheduling and operations applications is a plus.

Responsibilities
Automation Framework Strategy & Design

• Contribute to technology stack definition, infrastructure design, and testing approaches.
• Help scope and define automation tool requirements.
• Collaborate with QA and application teams to advance automation strategies.
• Evaluate scalable and modular automation framework solutions for Windows UI applications.
• Ensure extensibility to web UI automation.

Framework Development

• Define and establish core framework components, including:
  • Test case management
  • Object repositories
  • Logging
  • Reporting
  • Data-driven testing
  • Configuration management
• Develop reliable and maintainable:
  • Functional tests
  • Regression tests
  • Smoke tests
• Implement parallel execution strategies.
• Optimize automation for performance and stability.

Tool & Technology Evaluation

• Evaluate automation tools and libraries.
• Create proof-of-concepts (POCs).
• Perform ROI analysis for tool selection.
• Define adoption criteria and framework best practices.
• Assess web load testing tools.

Quality Assurance Governance

• Define and enforce coding standards.
• Ensure adherence to QA best practices.
• Define:
  • Error management strategies
  • Deterministic test data approaches
  • Environment controls
• Support continuous QA improvement initiatives.

CI/CD, Reporting & Metrics

• Integrate automation solutions with build pipelines where applicable.
• Integrate with test management tools.
• Automate test reporting.
• Publish actionable QA metrics.
• Enable unified reporting and artifact management across testing suites.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with:
  • Developers
  • QA Analysts
  • Product Owners
• Define:
  • Testable requirements
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Risk-based test coverage
• Produce documentation, examples, and onboarding materials.
• Deliver training sessions for QA engineers and stakeholders.
• Mentor team members.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.
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