Test Automation Engineer (Java/Backend/API)

**Test Automation Engineer** Pay Rate: $37\.50\-$50/hour **Responsibilities** Participate in developing and documenting user stories by providing test strategy and automation estimates. Develop, document, and maintain test strategies, plans, and scenarios for multiple environments. Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, API, regression, end\-to\-end (E2E), functional, smoke, load, usability, and platform tests. Conduct code reviews for test automation artifacts to ensure consistency, quality, and reusability. Partner with developers to ensure all areas of the application are fully tested and to find technical solutions for test automation. Build and manage automated test suites and ensure execution through various environments and CI/CD pipelines. Regularly execute, maintain, and update automated test suites; analyze failures and update scripts. Create defects with detailed documentation and validate fixes; ensure timely resolution and required automation updates. Present results and provide sign\-off on software functionality for production releases. Work with cross\-functional teams and release management to manage development, QA, and production releases. Perform exploratory testing to uncover unexpected behaviors and refine test cases. Contribute to QA automation frameworks using industry\-standard tools and approaches (e.g., JAVA Springboot2, RestAssured, GraphQL, Cucumber, Spring JDBC, GitHub, Git/Stash, SQL, Postman). Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code. Participate in analyzing major incidents and emergency change controls to identify automation opportunities. Strong focus on automation frameworks and CI/CD integration. Active participation in code reviews and governance. Collaborate with developers and product teams to ensure quality standards. Support automation efforts by creating and maintaining automated test scripts. Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improv