Automation Test Specialist

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We are looking for a Automation Test Specialist to join our growing team!

Role – Automation Test Specialist

Location – Washington, DC (onsite)

Role Summary

- We are looking for a hands-on SDET to support election-critical systems through the November elections cycle.

- This person will work closely with the current Elections QA Lead and help offload testing and automation work, especially on the distribution side of the platform.

- The role requires strong automation, API testing, AWS observability, and backend validation experience.

- The person must have practical knowledge of U.S. elections and understand the risks associated with election result distribution.

- This is not a pure automation role; the person must be able to clarify requirements, challenge gaps, assess production risk, and help improve QE processes.

- The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile environment while maintaining quality discipline.

- The person should be able to communicate testing progress, automation value, risks, and quality improvements to stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright for UI and API automation.
• Strong coding and scripting experience using TypeScript.
• Hands-on API automation experience using Rest Assured.
• Strong experience testing REST APIs, including:
  • Request and response validation,
  • Status code validation
  • Header validation
  • Error handling validation
  • Negative testing
  • Contract testing
  • Data integrity testing
• Must have experience with XML and JSON schema validation.
• Ability to design test scenarios based on API specification documentation.
• Experience writing BDD-style test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Working knowledge of AWS, especially for test validation and production behavior analysis.
• Ability to analyze CloudWatch logs to determine API usage patterns, failure trends, and missing test coverage.
• Experience converting production usage patterns into meaningful automated test coverage.
• Experience working with MongoDB collections for backend data validation.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Zephyr for test case management, defect tracking, test execution, and traceability.
• Strong understanding of risk-based testing and the ability to prioritize coverage based on production and business impact.
• Experience working in a highly Agile environment with fast-moving delivery teams.
• Ability to push back professionally when the team deviates from agreed process, quality gates, or acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to work with product owners, developers, QA leads, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Institutional knowledge of U.S. elections is a must, including:
  • Election results workflows
  • Race-level data
  • Vote updates
  • Vote types
  • Race calls
  • Result distribution
  • Downstream consumer impact
  • Election-night risk areas

Desired Profile

The ideal candidate should be more than a test automation engineer; they should operate like a quality engineer who understands production risk.

The person should be able to:

• Work closely with the Elections QA Lead and take ownership of assigned distribution-side testing workstreams.
• Help reduce the workload on the current lead by independently handling automation, API validation, log analysis, and test coverage expansion.
• Identify high-risk workflows and prioritize testing based on business and production impact.
• Review requirements critically and not simply test what is written in the ticket.
• Proactively work with stakeholders to clarify unclear requirements, missing acceptance criteria, and edge cases.
• Use CloudWatch logs to understand real API usage patterns and add tests where coverage gaps exist.
• Bring practical QE process improvements to reduce production misses wherever possible.
• Help improve test coverage across API, backend, data validation, schema validation, and distribution workflows.
• Comfortable pushing back respectfully when process shortcuts create quality or production risk.
• Communicate risks clearly without creating noise or unnecessary escalation.
• Show value to stakeholders by broadcasting automation improvements, risk reduction, coverage gains, and ROI.
• Participate in blameless postmortems and help convert findings into preventive actions.
• Comfortable working under election-cycle pressure without cutting corners on quality.
• Bring a continuous improvement mindset and help strengthen the QE processes.

Why QualiTest?

• Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace – we are one, we are many at Qualitest. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences.
• Local and global opportunities – we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career.
• Clear view of your career and progression with the company – Qualitest is growing massively and giving you the opportunity to grow with us.
• Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers.
• Save your earnings and prepare for your future by enrolling in our 401k plan where Qualitest will match your contributions accelerating your savings plan.
• Take care of health with enrollment into one of our competitive healthcare benefits. Qualitest will match towards your HSA if you choose to participate.
• Never stop experimenting and learning with Qualitest Tech academy: 3000+ training courses, mentorship programs, technical tribes, sponsored certifications, leadership programs and much more
• Stay active and get rewarded with our Corporate Wellness Program. We pay your Gym membership and giving you opportunities to Earn additional vacation times for attendance the gym!
• Salary of $97,200 - $112,000 annually.
• Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program’s. Refer and earn – tap your network for net-worth.
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