Manual/Automation Tester

As an Automation Tester at XTEN-AV, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable test automation for web, API, and mobile surfaces. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure high-quality releases are shipped faster, with a strong focus on test strategy, framework health, and CI stability. **Key Responsibilities:** - Own the test automation strategy across web, API, and mobile surfaces, driving shift-left testing with developers. - Design and maintain robust automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Appium with clean architecture and reusable utilities. - Build API automation including contract tests, schema validation, and negative cases for REST and GraphQL services. - Integrate and stabilize automation suites in CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, including parallelization, flaky-test control, and test artifacts management. - Implement test data management strategies like deterministic fixtures, environment switches, and stubs/mocks for external services. - Collaborate with developers on PR checks, code reviews for testability, and triage intermittent failures. - Maintain living documentation including test plans, coverage maps, and runbooks for failures. **Qualifications Required:** - Minimum 2 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 background in API testing and automation using tools like Postman, Newman, or code-level tests with frameworks like pytest and SuperTest. - Solid programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python for 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 version control systems like Git, branching strategies, PR reviews, and CI/CD pipelines setup. - Excellent communication skills, strong ownership mindset, and the ability to quickly debug failures using logs, traces, and screenshots. *Note: Additional details about the company were not provided in the job description.*,