QA Automation Engineer

Allata is looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join a client product team and play a key role in ensuring the quality and reliability of a growing technology platform.

This is an opportunity for a QA professional who enjoys working across the full testing lifecycle, combining automation expertise with strong exploratory testing and a product-oriented mindset. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and product teams in a fast-paced environment where quality is a shared responsibility and continuous improvement is highly valued.

The ideal candidate is curious, hands-on, and comfortable leveraging modern tools-including AI-to work more efficiently while applying sound QA judgment to validate results and make informed decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain end-to-end UI automation for an Angular application using Cypress.
• Develop and maintain automated API and contract tests for Spring Boot REST services and SQS/SNS event flows.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, keeping tests fast, reliable, and maintainable.
• Translate Jira acceptance criteria and Figma designs into comprehensive test plans and scenarios.
• Perform exploratory, regression, and functional testing across QA and UAT environments.
• Identify, document, and communicate defects with clear reproduction steps, expected vs. actual results, and relevant evidence.
• Partner with developers and product stakeholders to drive effective defect triage and resolution.
• Continuously assess automation coverage and identify opportunities to improve test reliability, speed, and effectiveness.
• Use AI tools to generate test cases, scaffold automation, analyze failures, and expand coverage, while critically validating AI-generated output.
• Contribute to improving QA processes, testing standards, and release quality across the product.

Hard Skills:

• Experience in QA, including 2+ years focused on test automation.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills.
• Hands-on experience with Cypress or Playwright.
• Experience with API testing using tools such as REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Karate, or similar.
• Comfortable reading and understanding Java/Spring Boot code to support effective API and backend testing.
• Experience testing REST APIs and event-driven architectures, ideally including SQS/SNS.
• Familiarity with MongoDB queries for test data setup, validation, and verification.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience using AI assistants in a software testing workflow, with a practical understanding of where they add value and where their output can be misleading.

Nice to have:

• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6 or Gatling.
• Experience with accessibility testing.
• Experience testing feature-flagged releases and gradual rollouts.
• Experience working with complex SaaS or consumer-facing products.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a risk-based approach to testing.
• High attention to detail while maintaining awareness of business and user impact.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of release quality.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills when working with developers and product stakeholders.
• Curious and proactive about improving testing practices, tools, and automation coverage.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and asking questions when requirements or acceptance criteria are unclear.
• Pragmatic approach to automation, with a clear understanding of what should be automated versus what is better suited for exploratory testing.
• Fluent English.