Remote Position
[Remote] QE Automation Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kapitus is hiring a QE Automation Engineer to build automated regression capabilities that support faster, more confident software releases. The role designs and maintains scalable Playwright and TypeScript test automation across product layers, integrates tests into CI/CD pipelines, and works with cross-functional teams to improve quality.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the team: Work with developers, product managers, and business analysts to understand requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Automate across layers: Design and implement automated coverage for functional, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end scenarios
- Build and maintain the framework: Design, develop, maintain, and optimize scalable automated frameworks and scripts using Playwright with TypeScript
- Validate API:. Develop and execute automated API tests to validate system functionality, integrations, and reliability
- Troubleshoot with developers: Work closely with developers to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues, providing timely feedback
- Engage in Agile ceremonies: Take part in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Harden regression suites: Build and maintain reliable automated regression suites that validate software stability and release readiness
- Integrate into CI/CD. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, monitor results, and improve reliability and feedback speed
- Convert manual to automated: Convert existing manual test cases into automated coverage, capturing domain knowledge so nothing is lost as automation grows
- Stay current: Track fintech industry trends, emerging tools, and best practices in QA and the financial domain
Skills
- 5-7+ years as a QA or QE engineer, with substantial hands-on test-automation experience
- Demonstrated ability to write, debug, and review automated test scripts using Playwright with TypeScript
- Strong understanding of automation framework architecture, test design patterns, maintainability, and quality-engineering best practices
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman and Swagger
- Experience testing Salesforce solutions and full-stack applications across UI, API, integration, and data layers
- Experience with version control including GitHub, Bitbucket, and SourceTree
- Experience with Jira for project and bug tracking, and Confluence and Zephyr Scale for documentation
- Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum and experience working in Agile environments
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, working effectively within a cross-functional team
- Test automation: functional, regression, API, integration, and end-to-end automated testing
- Automation framework: advanced hands-on Playwright and TypeScript, or comparable modern automation technologies
- Application platforms: hands-on testing of Salesforce and full-stack applications, including front-end, back-end, API, integration, and data-layer validation
- API testing: Postman and Swagger
- Version control: GitHub, Bitbucket, SourceTree
- Project management and bug tracking: Jira
- Documentation: Confluence and Zephyr Scale
- Basic knowledge of security and performance testing
- Experience in the financial services industry is a plus
- Additional languages: Python, SQL, JavaScript
- Experience with Selenium, Pytest, and Jenkins
- Familiarity with AWS services and cloud-computing concepts
Benefits
- Annual incentive compensation eligibility – up to 10% annually
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and employer-paid vision plans through UnitedHealthcare (UHC), with various coverage levels available for employees and their families
- UHC perks: Sweat Equity, free subscription to the Calm App, UHC rewards, Real Appeal, and Quit For Life
- Flexible Spending Account for pre-tax qualified out-of-pocket medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, or dependent care expenses
- Employer-sponsored post-tax Lifestyle Spending Account reimbursements for physical, mental, and financial well-being expenses
- Company-paid basic short-term and long-term disability insurance and vision insurance
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance and enhanced short- and long-term disability coverage through Mutual of Omaha
- Colonial Accident and Hospitalization insurances
- Company-paid maternity and parental leave beyond state-mandated leave policies
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for parking and commuter expenses
- LifeBalance membership discounts on outdoor activities, the arts, health, and fitness
- Pet and car insurance discounts
- LegalShield financial services
- Relaxation and stress management tools
- Plum Benefits discounts on shows, travel, car rentals, and more
- Up to $5,000 annually in tuition reimbursement, plus opportunities to attend relevant conferences and career development events through the LSA plan, Kapitus Academy
- Reimbursement for all work-related travel
- Paid time off and sick time
- 401(k) through Fidelity, with a company match of 25% on contributions, up to 6% of annual salary
- Virginia: remote; Maryland and Washington, DC: hybrid
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