What You'll Do

• Build and maintain automated test suites integrated into the CI/CD pipeline so releases are gated on real test coverage.
• Own the automated testing strategy across services expanding coverage over time and reducing reliance on manual regression passes.
• Troubleshoot test failures in the pipeline and distinguish real regressions from flaky or environment-specific failures.

• Design and execute test plans for new features and defect fixes across the Play/Scala and Spring Boot service tier and the React front end.
• Write and maintain API-level test coverage for services (core-api, cxml-api, procure APIs) and validate behavior against MySQL and PostgreSQL-backed data.
• Own acceptance criteria and verification for defects, and validate acceptance criteria written by Product for enhancements.
• Perform regression testing ahead of releases, scaled to each ticket's assessed risk level (technical, operational, and compliance impact).

• Participate in release-readiness review and sign off on testing scope before releases move to UAT and production.
• Validate behavior consistently across environments (dev, staging, UAT, production) and flag environment drift that could affect test reliability.
• Support UAT coordination with Business Operations, including reviewing release notes and risk scores ahead of each release.

Desired Candidate Profile

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in a QA, SDET, or software testing role, ideally on a production web application.
• Strong, hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites integrated into a CI/CD pipeline (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar) this is a key part of the role, not a secondary skill.
• Experience testing both backend services (REST APIs) and browser-based front ends.
• Comfort writing and validating SQL against relational databases (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL) to verify data-level correctness.
• Experience with defect tracking and test-case management tools (e.g., Jira or similar).
• Ability to read enough application code (Java, Scala, or similar JVM languages) to understand what a fix actually changed.

• Experience testing services deployed on Kubernetes, or working across containerized environments.
• Familiarity with Spring Boot and Play Framework applications specifically.
• Experience in a regulated or compliance-driven environment (SOC 2, life sciences, or similar).
• Exposure to performance or load testing.