Manual & Automation Tester

As an Automation Tester at XTEN-AV, your role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable test automation for web, API, and mobile surfaces. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality releases faster, taking strong ownership of the test strategy, framework health, and CI stability. **Key Responsibilities:** - Own the test automation strategy across web, API, and mobile platforms, driving shift-left testing with developers. - Design and maintain robust automation frameworks using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Appium with clean architecture and reusable utilities. - Develop API automation for REST and GraphQL, including contract tests, schema validation, and handling negative cases. - Integrate and stabilize test suites in CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ensuring parallelization, flaky-test control, and managing test artifacts like videos, screenshots, and logs. - Implement test data management practices including deterministic fixtures, environment switches, and stubs/mocks for external services. - Collaborate with developers on PR checks, conduct code reviews focusing on testability, and assist in triaging intermittent failures. - Maintain living documentation such as test plans, coverage maps, and runbooks for failures. **Qualifications Required:** - Minimum 2-4 years of experience in QA automation for web and/or mobile products. - Proficiency in at least one UI automation tool such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium (and Appium for mobile, if applicable). - Strong skills in API testing and automation using tools like Postman, Newman, or code-level tests with libraries such as pytest, requests, SuperTest, or REST Assured. - Solid programming abilities in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python, including developing framework utilities, page objects/screenplay, helpers, and assertions. - Experience in building or extending automation frameworks with a focus on page objects/screenplay, layers for drivers, selectors, waits, and reporting. - Familiarity with Git, branching strategies, PR reviews, and setting up CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins. - Excellent communication skills, a sense of ownership, and the ability to quickly debug failures using logs, traces, and screenshots. *Note: No additional details of the company were provided in the job description.*,