QA Engineer

**Senior QA Engineer Functional \& Automation** **Princeton NJ \- Onsite** **Full\-time** **Job Description** **Must Have Technical/Functional Skills** Senior QA Engineer Functional \& Automation

Rle: Hands\-on QA Engineer covering both functional testing and automation, with ownership of the AWS\-hosted regression

framework and process engineering fixes at framework and infrastructure level, not just running tests and analysing results.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute functional test cases; validate data directly via SQL.
• Build, extend and refactor the core automation framework (UI, API and service layers).
• Own the AWS automation framework permanently fix cloud failure modes (container restarts, load balancer timeouts, DB connectivity and connection\-pool exhaustion, S3/SQS integration, IAM/credential expiry, config drift) rather than re\-running or masking them.
• Harden environment provisioning, seeding, teardown and secrets management so runs start from a known\-good baseline.
• Implement resilience in the framework retry with backoff, health checks and readiness gates, graceful handling of transient cloud failures.
• Improve the end\-to\-end AWS regression process reduce runtime via parallelisation and sharding, drive down flaky tests against measurable targets, and add failure trend dashboards and automatic artefact capture.
• Analyse logs and stack traces to isolate root cause; classify failures as product defect, script defect, test data, environment or timing.
• Integrate and maintain suites in CI/CD; partner with DevOps and Development to clear infrastructure blockers and communicate risk.
• **Required Skills** 8\+ years QA across functional and automation.
• Strong Java able to write and debug framework code, not just scripts.
• Selenium, Cucumber/BDD, solid SQL.
• Proven experience debugging, fixing and improving automation frameworks in AWS (EC2/ECS, S3, SQS, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Track record of measurably reducing regression runtime and flakiness.
• Jenkins/CI\-CD, Maven, Git.
• Strong analytical mindset; able to work independently through intermittent, ambiguous failures.