QA Automation Engineer

About the Role:

As a QA Automation Engineer with a focus on PBM and Microservices, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining automated test frameworks for our healthcare and pharmacy-related systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the quality and performance of our microservices-based applications and solutions within the PBM domain. This position requires a strong understanding of both the technical aspects of automation and the nuances of the PBM industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test scripts for PBM systems and microservices applications using tools such as Selenium, Postman, JUnit, or Cypress.
• Create and execute automation scripts for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing across microservices.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and business analysts to understand business requirements, user stories, and PBM-specific workflows and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Automate testing for API endpoints, backend services, and microservices, ensuring integration points are thoroughly tested.
• Build and maintain continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to integrate automated tests into the overall development lifecycle using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI.
• Identify, document, and report defects, issues, and risks in a timely manner using issue-tracking systems such as Jira.
• Work closely with manual testers to transition manual test cases into automated scripts, ensuring full test coverage for key business processes in PBM workflows.
• Perform root cause analysis of issues discovered during testing and collaborate with developers to resolve defects.
• Monitor and improve test automation scripts to optimize execution time, reliability, and scalability.
• Maintain and update automation frameworks in response to product changes, ensuring the test suite remains current and robust.
• Stay up to date with industry best practices in both automation and the PBM domain.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of experience in QA automation, with a focus on testing microservices architectures.
• Strong understanding of Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) processes, including claims processing, formulary management, eligibility, and drug utilization management.
• Expertise in designing and developing automation scripts using languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with test automation tools for REST APIs (e.g., Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI).
• Experience testing microservices-based applications and ensuring communication between services (e.g., RESTful APIs, message queues, event-driven systems).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions and Octopus for automating the deployment and testing process.
• Familiarity with database testing and SQL for validating data integrity and performing backend verification.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and testing cloud-native applications.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Ability to write clear, maintainable, and reusable automation code and frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug and resolve issues independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance standards in the healthcare industry (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH) is a plus
• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling) for validating the scalability is a plus.

Salary Range: 90,000 - 110,000