QA Test Automation Engineer

Headquarters
2750 Crestwood Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35210, USA

Primary responsibility is to design, build, and scale automated testing infrastructure for ibml software—particularly C# Blazor web applications—while maintaining thick-client automation. This role supports the company by reducing regression risk through a layered automation strategy (Unit, API, Integration, UI), ensuring traceability between features and automated tests, integrating automation into CI/CD, and establishing performance/load/stress baselines to detect regressions early.

• Design, build, and maintain a modular test automation framework in C# for Blazor and other web-based applications (Playwright preferred; Selenium acceptable as needed).
• Maintain and enhance existing thick-client automation using Selenium with Win App Driver  (legacy knowledge of Coded
  
  UI is a plus).
• Leverage current AI tools to accelerate automation development (e.g., code generation, test data creation) and continuously adapt to new AI technologies for process improvement and efficiency gains.
• Work within an Agile development team to implement automation solutions with maintainability, scalability, and best practices in mind.
• Gather test requirements and develop test plans and automated test cases independently and through team collaboration.
• Expand automated coverage of prioritized function points using the “right test for the right job” approach (unit, integration, API, and UI automation).
• Implement API-level automation to reduce UI fragility and improve reliability and execution speed.
• Ensure automated tests are traceable to specific features and/or requirements for coverage of visibility and reporting.
• Develop and execute performance, load, and stress testing strategies (multi-user/concurrency) and establish baseline thresholds for regression detection.
• Improve automation reliability (reduce flakiness) through better design, selector strategies, intelligent wait mechanisms, and parallel execution where appropriate.
• Execute and analyze automated test runs in CI/CD pipelines; triage failures and collaborate with developers to determine root cause (test issue vs product defect).
• Document software defects in Azure Dev Ops with clear reproduction steps and strong technical detail; monitor resolution progress and verify fixes.
• Participate in product/design reviews to provide input on testability, functional requirements, risk areas, and quality impacts.
• Review relevant software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, and completeness as it relates to test coverage and operational risk.
• Coordinate with other departments as needed to validate fixes/enhancements and ensure shared documentation and expectations remain accurate.
• Support production systems by reproducing defects and creating automated regression coverage for corrective actions when appropriate.
• Communicate alternatives, additions, risks, constraints, and technical design decisions clearly to stakeholders.

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