QA Automation Engineer

Role Overview

As a QA Automation Engineer at Flamingo, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our backend services and microservice architecture. You'll build robust test automation frameworks, develop integration and E2E tests, and work closely with engineering, DevOps, and support teams to drive a culture of quality.

What You'll Do

Own end-to-end test strategy: exploratory, functional, regression, integration, and cross-browser testing

Build and maintain automated test suites using Selenium WebDriver and/or Playwright for Java; API automation with RestAssured against REST and GraphQL endpoints

Build isolated testing environments using Docker and related tools

Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines keeping suites fast, reliable, and low-flakiness

Use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate test authoring and maintenance

Test AI/LLM features: evals, prompt regression suites, hallucination and safety checks

Investigate defects with rigor: clear repro steps, root-cause hypotheses, tight collaboration with developers

Create and maintain test documentation, including test plans and coverage reports

Champion shift-left testing, risk-based prioritization, and observability for tests

Qualifications

Must-Have:

5+ years of QA experience with strong manual testing foundation: test design, exploratory testing, sharp eye for edge cases

4+ years of hands-on test automation experience in Java (11+), Maven or Gradle, JUnit/TestNG, Git

Selenium WebDriver and/or Playwright for Java; Page Object frameworks, stabilizing flaky suites

RestAssured for API testing (contract, integration, negative-path); OpenAPI/Swagger fluency

Hands-on GraphQL: queries, mutations, schema changes, error shapes

Strong understanding of microservices architecture and backend testing principles

Basic Docker and Kubernetes: running containers locally, kubectl logs, debugging tests in containerized environments

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI — integrating tests and triaging failures

Command line comfort (bash/zsh) and log-digging (grep/jq, Kibana, Datadog)

Hands-on AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as part of daily work

Excellent written communication: bug reports, test plans, explaining quality risks

Nice-to-Have:

Experience with Testcontainers, Pact, or WireMock

Eval/regression suites for LLM-powered features

Performance testing (JMeter, k6, Gatling)

Security testing fundamentals (OWASP Top 10)

Visual regression tooling (Percy, Applitools, Playwright snapshots)

Experience building test processes from scratch in early-stage teams

ISTQB or equivalent certification