Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cambridge Resources is seeking multiple hands-on QA Automation Engineers / SDETs for a long-term, 100% remote opportunity. The role involves independently testing Jira stories, understanding business and technical requirements, validating applications across UI, API, and database layers, and building automated test coverage.
Responsibilities
- Independently test Jira stories, understand business and technical requirements, validate applications across the UI, API, and database layers, and build automated coverage as part of completing the story
- Take a Jira story and determine: What are the acceptance criteria and edge cases? What happens at the API and database layers? What should be automated so the functionality remains covered?
- Be equally comfortable manually investigating an issue and opening your IDE to automate the appropriate coverage
Skills
- This opportunity is **exclusively for U.S. Citizens and s**
- These are **righttohire contract roles**, **100% remote**, and **only for residents within the United States**
- Candidates should have 8+ years of overall business/technical experience, including at least 7 years in QA/SDET roles
- Functions, parameters, and return values
- Arrays, objects, loops, and conditions
- Filtering and manipulating data
- Async / await
- Ability to write basic TypeScript independently
- Playwright Test, test, and expect
- GetByRole, getByLabel, getByText, and test IDs
- Assertions and auto-waiting
- Page Object Model / reusable automation
- Avoiding brittle XPath/CSS selectors and hard waits
- Diagnosing flaky tests
- REST request/response validation
- HTTP status codes
- Positive and negative testing
- Authentication/authorization
- Payload and response validation
- Backend data verification
- SELECT, WHERE, JOIN, COUNT, and aggregations
- Sorting and filtering
- Validating inserts, updates, deletes, statuses, and relationships
- You should be able to take a Jira story and determine: What are the acceptance criteria and edge cases? What happens at the API and database layers? What should be automated so the functionality remains covered?
- You should be equally comfortable manually investigating an issue and opening your IDE to automate the appropriate coverage
- There will be a hands-on TypeScript / Playwright coding exercise, so candidates must be comfortable writing basic code independently without AI assistance
- You must reside and perform all work within the continental United States 100% of the time
- No C2C
- No third-party staffing companies
- No subcontractors
- No offshore/international work
- No sponsorship
Benefits
- 100% remote; candidates must reside and perform all work within the continental United States 100% of the time.
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