QA Automation Engineer

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a QA Engineer.

Core Knowledge & Skills: Applies test automation basics, advanced testing techniques, performance testing, and Agile methodologies; uses tools like Selenium and JMeter.

Work & Complexity: Designs and executes complex test cases, analyzes defects, develops automation scripts, and collects/report metrics.

Quality & Independence: Conducts thorough testing, maintains consistency, seeks process improvements, and works independently on routine tasks.

Teamwork & Communication: Participates in team projects, shares best practices, coordinates with other teams, and mentors juniors.

Consulting & Engagement: Advises on test strategies, analyzes defects, suggests process improvements, and mentors junior testers.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a QA Automation Engineer.

We are looking for an SDET who combines software engineering skills with a passion for quality. Working in a rapid iterative agile environment, you will conduct testing (manual and automated), develop automats tests which include writing code and building high-quality test scripts which will be integrated into a CI/CD pipeline. You will work closely with developers, focus on testing efficiencies, and ensuring that software developed will address the organization’s business need or problem as defined in user stories and in adherence to the defined acceptance criteria.

Strong programming skills with C# (.NET/.NET Core) OR Python; ability to write production‐quality automation code.

Hands‐on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks.

Experience with modern automation tools such as: Playwright or Cypress for UI automation (either is acceptable) AND Postman and/or Swagger for REST API testing

Experience testing RESTful APIs, backend services, and integrated systems.

Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts, with hands‐on experience integrating tests into Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML preferred).

Experience using Azure DevOps for: User stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria, Test case management and defect tracking

Comfortable working across a modern tech stack: React,.NET, PostgreSQL/SQL Server

Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals, including functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.

Strong analytical and problem‐solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues and propose practical solutions.

Experience in working with developers to ensure that systems are designed with testability, reliability, performance, and security in mind.

Exposure to containerized or cloud‐hosted environments (Azure) - Docker, Kubernetes

Proven ability to use analytical and problem-solving skills to gather appropriate data to diagnose the cause of a problem or to develop a solution.

Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or Kanban delivery models in fast‐changing product environments.

Experience with performance, load, or security testing tools.

Prior experience influencing test strategy for large or complex enterprise systems.