SENIOR QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a high-impact team supporting SAP's cloud-based learning platform. This platform delivers professional training, certifications, and hands-on learning environments to a global audience of enterprise customers, partners, professionals, and students.
As part of the engineering team, you will design, develop, and maintain automated test solutions across critical backend services responsible for learning environment orchestration, cloud provisioning, and automated assessment systems. You will play a key role in ensuring platform quality, reliability, scalability, and performance for tens of thousands of learner sessions every month.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for backend services.
Own end-to-end test automation strategy for orchestration, provisioning, and automated-verification services.
Develop and execute API, integration, contract, and end-to-end automated tests.
Create scalable test automation using TypeScript, Node.js, WebDriverIO, and related technologies.
Validate REST APIs, service contracts, schemas, authentication flows, and microservice interactions.
Collaborate closely with software engineers, product teams, and DevOps teams to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Support containerized test execution environments using Docker, Podman, and Selenium Grid.
Analyze defects, identify root causes, and drive quality improvements across the platform.
Contribute to continuous improvement of testing practices, frameworks, and automation coverage.
Required Skills & Experience
8+ years of overall QA and software testing experience.
5+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade test automation using TypeScript and Node.js.
Strong experience with modern test automation frameworks such as WebDriverIO, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar.
Extensive experience in REST API testing, contract testing, schema validation, OpenAPI specifications, OAuth2, and OIDC authentication.
Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, and service integrations.
Ability to read and understand backend Node.js service code and create meaningful automated tests.
Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.
Hands-on experience with containerized testing environments using Docker, Podman, Selenium Grid, or similar technologies.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills in remote, distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous SAP ecosystem experience.
Experience testing cloud-native applications and distributed architectures.
Familiarity with enterprise learning, certification, or SaaS platforms.
Exposure to performance, load, and scalability testing methodologies.
What You'll Work With
TypeScript
Node.js
WebDriverIO
GitHub Actions
REST APIs
OpenAPI
OAuth2 / OIDC
Docker / Podman
Selenium Grid
Cloud Infrastructure
Microservices Architecture
We are seeking an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a high-impact team supporting SAP's cloud-based learning platform. This platform delivers professional training, certifications, and hands-on learning environments to a global audience of enterprise customers, partners, professionals, and students.
As part of the engineering team, you will design, develop, and maintain automated test solutions across critical backend services responsible for learning environment orchestration, cloud provisioning, and automated assessment systems. You will play a key role in ensuring platform quality, reliability, scalability, and performance for tens of thousands of learner sessions every month.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for backend services.
Own end-to-end test automation strategy for orchestration, provisioning, and automated-verification services.
Develop and execute API, integration, contract, and end-to-end automated tests.
Create scalable test automation using TypeScript, Node.js, WebDriverIO, and related technologies.
Validate REST APIs, service contracts, schemas, authentication flows, and microservice interactions.
Collaborate closely with software engineers, product teams, and DevOps teams to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Support containerized test execution environments using Docker, Podman, and Selenium Grid.
Analyze defects, identify root causes, and drive quality improvements across the platform.
Contribute to continuous improvement of testing practices, frameworks, and automation coverage.
Required Skills & Experience
8+ years of overall QA and software testing experience.
5+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade test automation using TypeScript and Node.js.
Strong experience with modern test automation frameworks such as WebDriverIO, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar.
Extensive experience in REST API testing, contract testing, schema validation, OpenAPI specifications, OAuth2, and OIDC authentication.
Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, and service integrations.
Ability to read and understand backend Node.js service code and create meaningful automated tests.
Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.
Hands-on experience with containerized testing environments using Docker, Podman, Selenium Grid, or similar technologies.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills in remote, distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous SAP ecosystem experience.
Experience testing cloud-native applications and distributed architectures.
Familiarity with enterprise learning, certification, or SaaS platforms.
Exposure to performance, load, and scalability testing methodologies.
What You'll Work With
TypeScript
Node.js
WebDriverIO
GitHub Actions
REST APIs
OpenAPI
OAuth2 / OIDC
Docker / Podman
Selenium Grid
Cloud Infrastructure
Microservices Architecture