QA Automation Engineer

Company Overview:
NationsBenefits is the leading provider of supplemental benefits, flex cards, and membernengagement solutions that partner with managed care organizations to provide innovative healthcare solutions designed to drive growth, improve outcomes, reduce costs, and delight members. Our comprehensive suite of innovative supplemental benefits, payments platform, and member engagement solutions help health plans deliver high-quality benefit to their members, addressing social determinants of health and improving member health outcomes and satisfaction. With a compliance-focused infrastructure, proprietary
technology systems, and premier service delivery model, we enable our health plan partners to deliver high-quality, value-based care to millions of members.

We offer a fulfilling work environment that attracts top talent and encourages all associatesto do their part in delivering premier service to internal and external customers alike. It’s howwe’re transforming the healthcare industry for the better. We provide career advancement opportunities within the organization with multiple locations in Florida, California,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and India.

You might also like to know that NationsBenefits is also recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America. We’re proud of how far we’ve come, and a career with us alsogives you growth opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

· Design, develop, and maintain robust UI automation frameworks using Playwright.

· Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and system testing for web applications.

· Validate REST APIs and gRPC services, including request/response verification, error handling, and contract validation.

· Develop and execute automated API tests using Playwright or other API automation frameworks.

· Perform database validation by writing and executing SQL queries to verify data integrity and business rules.

· Review business requirements and technical designs to define effective test strategies and test scenarios.

· Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.

· Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.

· Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing.

· Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

· Analyze test metrics and provide recommendations for improving product quality and testing efficiency.

Required Skills

· 3–6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation.

· Strong hands-on experience with Playwright using TypeScript.

· Experience testing REST APIs and gRPC APIs/services.

· Strong understanding of API protocols, JSON, Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), HTTP/HTTP2, authentication, and service validation.

· Hands-on experience using tools such as Postman, gRPC clients (e.g., grpcurl or BloomRPC), or equivalent API testing tools.

· Strong SQL skills with experience in database testing, including data validation, complex queries, joins, stored procedures, and data consistency checks.

· Experience with test automation framework design, maintenance, and execution.

· Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

· Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.

· Experience with Git and version control best practices.

· Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.

· Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.