QA Engineer

Hydden is hiring a Test Automation Engineer to take complete ownership of the quality signal that protects our product as we ship. In this role, you will build and maintain the test automation frameworks that catch defects early, keep staging environments trustworthy, and turn quality into clear, measurable outcomes. You will work across Golang microservices and TypeScript user interfaces in both Azure and AWS environments.

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Automation Framework and Test Suites:

• Framework Ownership: Build, maintain, and scale the test automation framework while enforcing strict coding, structure, and code review standards.
• Suite Efficacy: Own the content, stability, and reliability of end-to-end, API, and UI automation suites— ensuring tests are maintainable, fast, and high-value.
• Orchestration and Feedback: Design test execution pipelines, orchestration workflows, and automated results reporting so failures are instantly visible, actionable, and routed to the right owners.

Staging Environment Ownership and Hygiene:

• Environment Stability: Own the stability, configuration, and uptime of the staging environment used for automated and pre-release validation.
• Hygiene and Cleanup: Eliminate stale data, orphaned resources, configuration drift, and flakiness that compromise test accuracy or make results noisy.

Quality Standards and Metrics:

• Coverage Standards: Enforce strict test and code coverage standards across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Metrics Tracking: Implement and track key quality metrics—including defect MTTR, escaped defects, test execution time, and pass/fail trends—to drive continuous engineering improvements.

Expectations:

• Trustworthy Automation: Test suites are fast, reliable, and consistently catch defects before they reach production without producing false positives.
• Reliable Staging: The staging environment remains clean, available, and stable as a trusted gate for production releases.
• Enforced Standards: Quality and coverage standards are well-defined, automated, and seamlessly integrated into the delivery path.
• Data-Driven Quality: Quality metrics are actively used to shorten defect cycle times and reduce escaped bugs.

Requirements:

• Experience: 1-3 years of hands-on experience building, orchestrating, and maintaining test automation frameworks and suites.
• Framework Ownership: Proven experience setting test standards, structuring test architectures, and managing test feedback loops.
• Stack Proficiency: Hands-on experience validating Golang APIs/services and TypeScript frontends.
• Environment Management: Demonstrated experience maintaining healthy, deterministic staging environments for automated test execution.
• Cloud and Operations: Practical experience operating within both Azure and AWS cloud environments.
• Metrics Mindset: Experience tracking quality metrics (MTTR, escaped defects, execution duration) to improve software health.
• Communication: Ability to articulate quality standards clearly and advocate for software quality without slowing down product delivery.
• Tech Stack: Backend Services: Golang (Go).
• Frontend Applications: TypeScript; Cloud Infrastructure: Azure and AWS.

Skills

Automation Testing, Go, Golang, QA Automation, Test Automation, AWS, Azure, TypeScript