Qa Test Engineer

TL;DR

QA Test Engineer: Driving quality assurance and building automated validation frameworks for cross-service applications with an accent on functional use cases and testing modern architectures. Focus on identifying failures across distributed software components and pioneering AI-enhanced development tools to accelerate deployment velocity.

Location: Remote - CST Timezone

Salary: $50 - $60 an hour

Company

CompassX is a boutique business and technology consulting firm helping Fortune 500 and high-growth clients deliver their most strategic initiatives.

What you will do

• Design, draft, and scale robust automated test suites using Node.js and TypeScript to validate feature stability.
• Lead hands-on automation testing across multiple web applications using Playwright, with additional exposure to Android (Appium) ecosystems.
• Write and maintain test coverage for intricate GraphQL queries as well as asynchronous, real-time messaging interfaces like MQTT, WebSockets, or SSE.
• Monitor, scale, and maintain automated test execution across continuous integration environments via GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Actively leverage container registries, Docker images, and log aggregation platforms to analyze and correlate errors across distributed services.
• Collaborate dynamically across engineering teams to surface, track (via Jira), and proactively resolve environmental and application defects.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of focused experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or SDET positions.
• Solid, hands-on proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, coupled with experience utilizing test runners such as Mocha.
• Proven experience implementing and building out UI frameworks with Playwright.
• Strong experience validating GraphQL APIs and a functional understanding of messaging layer test strategies (MQTT, WebSockets, or Server-Sent Events).
• Working knowledge of containerized deployments using Docker alongside Git-based continuous integration/deployment delivery models.
• Highly analytical approach to parsing, analyzing, and correlating service and application logs to locate root causes of code defects.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote setup.