Test Engineer (QA Engineering)
Remote – United States (Must be able to work CST hours)
Contract: 6/30/2026 – 12/29/2026
Potential extension opportunity; not eligible for conversion
Our client is seeking a Test Engineer to support automated testing initiatives across modern applications and services. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced engineering environments and enjoys collaborating cross-functionally to improve product quality, testing strategy, and deployment reliability.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design, build, and maintain automated test coverage for core services and applications
- Lead efforts around test scenario creation and functional test strategy for new features
- Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to investigate bugs, triage issues, and resolve failures across environments
- Monitor and maintain automated test pipelines while leveraging logs and observability tools to troubleshoot issues
- Clearly document and communicate defects, findings, and recommendations
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across QA processes and workflows
- Leverage emerging AI tools and technologies to improve testing efficiency and delivery velocity
What We’re Looking For
- Strong proficiency with Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience with automated testing frameworks and test runners such as Mocha
- Hands-on experience with UI automation tools, specifically Playwright
- Experience testing MQTT or similar Pub/Sub interfaces (WebSockets, SSE, etc.)
- Experience testing GraphQL APIs, including complex queries and test maintenance
- Familiarity with cloud-based environments and containerized deployments
- Working knowledge of Docker images and container registries
- Experience working within Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
- Ability to analyze and correlate logs across distributed services to troubleshoot failures
- Experience using Jira or similar issue/task tracking tools
- Familiarity with Android automation testing tools such as Appium is a plus
Additional Details
- Fully remote within the United States
- Must be comfortable working CST business hours
- Initial contract through December 2026 with potential for extension
