Job Title: QA Automation Engineer

Location: Basking Ridge NJ

Duration: 12 months 

Bill Rate: $75/hour (C2C)

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced QA Engineer with strong expertise in test automation, API testing, quality engineering, performance testing, CI/CD integration, and cloud-native application validation. Experience testing telecommunication systems and performance-monitoring platforms, including 4G/5G networks, OSS systems, Network Elements, network KPIs, and performance management solutions.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Develop automated test suites covering functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, API, and system testing.
• Identify opportunities to increase automation coverage and reduce manual testing effort.
• Establish reusable test components, utilities, test-data approaches, and automation standards.
• Conduct test planning, test-case design, defect analysis, root-cause investigation, and quality reporting.
• Partner with engineering teams to define appropriate quality gates and acceptance criteria.
• Perform comprehensive REST API and web-service testing, including functional, integration, negative, authentication, error-handling, and data-validation scenarios.
• Validate integrations between applications, microservices, external systems, databases, and network-management platforms.
• Troubleshoot API failures using request/response payloads, HTTP status codes, application logs, and system traces.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and faster feedback.
• Validate telecom performance-management applications and related network-monitoring solutions.
• Test collection, processing, aggregation, and presentation of network performance data and KPIs.
• Validate interfaces and data flows involving OSS platforms, Network Elements, network-management systems, and performance-monitoring systems.
• Test dashboards, reports, alarms, counters, metrics, and performance data against expected network behavior.
• Support quality validation for 4G/LTE and 5G network performance monitoring environments.
• Verify data accuracy and integrity across network-performance collection and reporting workflows.

 Required Qualifications:

• Strong professional experience in Software Quality Engineering / QA Automation.
• Advanced hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks.
• Strong experience in API and web-service testing, particularly REST APIs.
• Programming/scripting experience with Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing integration.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, SDLC/STLC, defect management, and test strategy.
• Experience working with source-control platforms such as Git.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

 Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.