QA Automation/Infrastructure Engineer/ Remote

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Apetan Consulting, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today! Role Overview A QA Automation & Infrastructure Engineer designs, builds, and maintains automated testing frameworks and the infrastructure that runs them. The role ensures software quality at scale by integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines and making tests reliable, fast, and observable. This is more technical than a traditional QA role and often overlaps with SDET, DevOps, and Platform Engineering. Key Responsibilities Test Automation • Design and maintain automated test frameworks (UI, API, integration, regression) • Write robust, reusable test scripts • Improve test reliability (reduce flaky tests) • Ensure test coverage across features and services Test Infrastructure & Platforms • Build and maintain test environments • Manage CI/CD test pipelines • Optimize test execution time and parallelization • Set up test data management strategies • Maintain cloud-based test systems CI/CD & DevOps Integration • Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (pre-merge, post-merge, nightly) • Monitor pipeline health and failures • Collaborate with DevOps teams on scalability and reliability Quality Engineering • Shift-left testing practices • Performance, load, and security test integration • Define quality gates and release criteria • Metrics & reporting (test coverage, failure rates) Required Skills Programming • Strong in at least one language: • Java / Python / JavaScript / TypeScript / C# • Good understanding of OOP and clean code practices Automation Tools • UI: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress • API: REST Assured, Postman, Karate • Mobile (if applicable): Appium • Test frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, PyTest, Mocha Infrastructure & DevOps • CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps • Containers: Docker • Orchestration (bonus): Kubernetes • Cloud: AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform • IaC (bonus): Terraform, CloudFormation Other Skills • Git & version control • Linux basics • Debugging distributed systems • Monitoring/logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK bonus) Apply tot his job