QA Automation Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for web applications, APIs, and platform workflows

• Develop and execute automated functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test suites

• Work closely with .NET and Angular engineers to embed quality early in the development lifecycle

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to refine acceptance criteria and define test coverage for new features

• Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines

• Improve release confidence by introducing quality gates, test reporting, and defect prevention practices

• Support root cause analysis for production issues and recurring defects

• Drive improvements in QA standards, test data management, test environments, and release readiness

• Balance automation with targeted manual exploratory testing where needed

• Help create a culture of quality across a small, cross-functional startup team

• 8+ years of experience in QA engineering, with significant hands-on automation experience

• Strong experience testing applications built with .NET back ends and Angular front ends

• Strong experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks

• Strong experience with Azure DevOps, including test planning, work item tracking, and CI/CD pipeline integration

• Experience testing REST APIs, web applications, and cloud-hosted solutions

• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment, where teams are lean and individuals take broad ownership

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, defect management, and release processes

• Experience working closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders in agile delivery environments

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

• Test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or equivalent

• API testing tools such as Postman, RestAssured, or equivalent

• Experience writing automated tests in C# / .NET

• Experience validating Angular UI behaviour and front-end workflows

• Azure DevOps pipelines, boards, test plans, and release workflows

• SQL / data validation skills

• Familiarity with performance, security, or load-testing approaches is beneficial

• Understanding of cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure

• Experience testing SaaS or multi-tenant platforms

• Experience in billing, onboarding, workflow, or data-heavy applications

• Experience improving QA maturity in a growing engineering team

• Exposure to observability, monitoring, and production quality metrics

• Familiarity with test strategy in environments with limited legacy automation coverage

• Automated regression coverage increases significantly across critical product workflows

• Release quality improves, with fewer defects escaping into production

• Test automation becomes a reliable part of the Azure DevOps delivery pipeline

• Engineering teams gain faster feedback and more confidence in releases

• Quality becomes embedded in the development process rather than dependent on late-stage checking

• Hands-on and proactive

• Comfortable in a fast-changing startup environment

• Pragmatic and delivery-focused

• Detail-oriented without losing sight of business priorities

• Strong collaborator who can challenge constructively

• Able to work independently and take ownership

Test Triangle