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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.\nThe 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.\nResponsibilities:\nBuild and maintain end-to-end UI automation for an Angular application using Cypress.\nDevelop and maintain automated API and contract tests for Spring Boot REST services and SQS/SNS event flows.\nIntegrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, keeping tests fast, reliable, and maintainable.\nTranslate Jira acceptance criteria and Figma designs into comprehensive test plans and scenarios.\nPerform exploratory, regression, and functional testing across QA and UAT environments.\nIdentify, document, and communicate defects with clear reproduction steps, expected vs. actual results, and relevant evidence.\nPartner with developers and product stakeholders to drive effective defect triage and resolution.\nContinuously assess automation coverage and identify opportunities to improve test reliability, speed, and effectiveness.\nUse AI tools to generate test cases, scaffold automation, analyze failures, and expand coverage, while critically validating AI-generated output.\nContribute to improving QA processes, testing standards, and release quality across the product.\nHard Skills:\nExperience in QA, including 2+ years focused on test automation.\nStrong JavaScript/TypeScript skills.\nHands-on experience with Cypress or Playwright.\nExperience with API testing using tools such as REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Karate, or similar.\nComfortable reading and understanding Java/Spring Boot code to support effective API and backend testing.\nExperience testing REST APIs and event-driven architectures, ideally including SQS/SNS.\nFamiliarity with MongoDB queries for test data setup, validation, and verification.\nExperience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.\nHands-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.\nNice to have:\nExperience with performance testing tools such as k6 or Gatling.\nExperience with accessibility testing.\nExperience testing feature-flagged releases and gradual rollouts.\nExperience working with complex SaaS or consumer-facing products.\nSoft Skills:\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with a risk-based approach to testing.\nHigh attention to detail while maintaining awareness of business and user impact.\nAbility to work independently and take ownership of release quality.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills when working with developers and product stakeholders.\nCurious and proactive about improving testing practices, tools, and automation coverage.\nComfortable challenging assumptions and asking questions when requirements or acceptance criteria are unclear.\nPragmatic approach to automation, with a clear understanding of what should be automated versus what is better suited for exploratory testing.\nFluent English.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3560,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":true}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Argentina","iso":"AR","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T03:40:35Z"}],"liveness":{"score":68,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.76,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:16","velocity","win:mid","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/allata-qa-automation-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/allata-qa-automation-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T21:21:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4027,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":973,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}