Role & seniority
- Quality Engineer / QA Automation (Right to Hire)
- ~5+ years experience (mid-level)
Stack/tools
- Automation/Testing: Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, TestNG, Protractor
- API/UI: Postman, SoapUI; REST API automation
- Performance (per tools listed): JMeter
- Languages: Java (required); TypeScript (listed)
- Framework/practices: reusable automation scripts, test case design/execution, E2E testing
- Dev/Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence, Miro; Agile/Waterfall
- CI/CD & Infra: Jenkins (preferred)
- Cloud/data (working knowledge): AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Glue, Athena), Parquet
- Other: Unix/scripting; Unix commands
Top 3 responsibilities
- Design/develop/maintain automated test scripts & frameworks for UI, API, and backend validation.
- Execute end-to-end testing (smoke, functional, integration, regression, UAT) across release/user stories.
- Create and run test artifacts (test cases, execution) and actively identify edge cases/gaps (“break the system”) to improve risk coverage.
Must-have skills
- Hands-on manual + automated testing, including end-to-end testing
- Selenium + Playwright with Java
- Full-stack functional testing (front-end + back-end) and UAT experience
- Ability to create/execute test cases and maintain automation assets
Nice-to-haves
- Jenkins/CI/CD integration experience
- AWS knowledge (Lambda, Dynamo

Full Description

Job Title: Quality Engineer – QA Automation (Right to Hire) | Hybrid – Newark, NJ

Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite)

Type: Right to Hire (Contract to Hire)

Pay Rate: $50–$60/hour on W2, depending on experience No C2C or 1099

About the Role A major investment firm is seeking a Quality Engineer to join their Quality Engineering team on a right-to-hire basis. This role is ideal for a QA professional with a strong "break the system" mindset, sharp analytical instincts, and hands-on experience across both manual and automated testing. You will design, develop, test, and deliver high-quality, test-driven solutions across multiple technology domains, working closely with Product Owners and development teams to ensure robust test coverage and product quality.

Key Requirements Both manual and automated testing experience; experience with end-to-end testing; hands-on experience with Selenium and Playwright using Java; test artifact creation including test case design and execution; functional testing experience including UAT; and experience testing full stack applications across both front end and back end.

Roles & Responsibilities Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts and frameworks for UI, API, and back-end validation using tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, and related automation technologies. Perform hands-on test creation and execution for smoke, functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing across user stories, applications, and release cycles. Apply a strong QA mindset to identify gaps, challenge assumptions, uncover edge cases, and proactively break the system to improve product quality and risk coverage.

Education and Experience

B. S./B.A. or M.S./M.A. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline. 5+ years of overall experience executing and managing all aspects of software testing.

Technical Qualifications Working knowledge of test automation processes, concepts, and tools such as Selenium, TestNG, JMeter, Playwright, Postman, SoapUI, Protractor, Cucumber, and TypeScript.

Experience with multiple development methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid, and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and MIRO. Experience with REST API automation, Unix, scripting, and developing reusable, maintainable automated test scripts.

Working knowledge of AWS technologies such as Lambda, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Glue, Athena, and Parquet file format. Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline integration is preferred.

QA Engineer

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