Full Description

We have an exciting QA Engineer opportunity with a state agency in Austin, TX. This role understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be; summarized, and formats for reports. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program. Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test scripts using Selenium.
• Build and enhance automation frameworks (data-driven, hybrid, or BDD).
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
• Analyze business requirements and create comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and architects to clarify requirements.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives).
• Perform API testing (manual and automated).
• Conduct defect tracking, root cause analysis, and impact assessment.
• Ensure CI/CD pipeline integration of automation suites.
• Provide test coverage analysis and quality metrics reporting.

Minimum Requirements 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance and testing 7 years of experience of hands-on expertise in Selenium WebDriver and other automation tools 7 years of experience with Java (preferred) or C#/Python for automation scripting. 7 years of experience building and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch. Strong understanding of functional testing principles.

7 years of experience with: TestNG / JUnit / NUnit, Maven / Gradle, Git 7 years of experience integrating automation with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions). 7 years of experience with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured, etc.). 7 years of experience with SQL for backend validation. 6 years of experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Strong understanding of: Test planning and strategy, Test case design techniques (boundary value, equivalence partitioning), Regression strategy, Risk-based testing 6 years of experience independently owning testing for a feature/module.

Preferences

• 7 years of experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow).