Senior QA Automation Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Automation Engineer

Location: San Jose, CA - Hybrid

Duration: Contract

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a fast-paced, startup-oriented team building a next-generation Revenue Intelligence Platform. The platform centralizes, cleans, and enriches revenue data from multiple sources to enable strategic decision-making across Sales, Finance, and RevOps teams.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in both manual and automation testing, with expertise in distributed systems, microservices architectures, API testing, and cloud-native environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for web applications, APIs, and microservices.
• Perform end-to-end testing across distributed systems running on Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.
• Validate integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Google/Outlook Calendar, Slack, and third-party APIs.
• Develop and execute API test suites using Postman, Python, and automation frameworks.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality releases.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test data, and automation scripts.
• Perform integration, regression, smoke, and performance testing.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to microservices, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and shift-left testing initiatives.
• Support AI feature validation and testing for native AI-powered capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in QA engineering with strong manual and automation testing expertise.
• Experience testing web-scale distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium and test automation frameworks.
• Strong API testing experience using Postman and Python.
• Experience testing REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and third-party APIs.
• Experience with Kubernetes, MongoDB, Temporal, and Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
• Strong understanding of integration testing methodologies and test data management.
• Experience working with Salesforce and/or HubSpot integrations.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Agile/Scrum environments.
• Experience working in startup environments and building products from scratch

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML feature validation.
• Experience testing Slack, Google Workspace, Outlook, and call recording integrations.
• Knowledge of performance testing and database optimization.
• Familiarity with Golang-based applications.