Junior QA Engineer – Automation Full Time NEW

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.

SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s best-loved brands include Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at www.smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit.

At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission.

Junior QA Engineer – Automation

• Build and scale an AI-driven, no-code test automation platform for web and mobile
• Hands-on expertise with Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress using Python or Java
• Strong knowledge in QA strategy and test planning

Product intro:

Reflect is SmartBear’s AI-powered, all-in-one test automation platform that enables teams to create, run, and maintain web and mobile tests in the cloud — without writing a single line of code. 

Powered by SmartBear HaloAI, Reflect supports Web, Mobile, Visual, API, and Cross-Browser Testing and integrates with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitLab.

Go to our product page if you want to know more about Reflect.

You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊

About the role:

As a Junior QA Automation Engineer on the Reflect team, you will play a key role in shaping and evolving a product that helps thousands of teams achieve high test coverage with minimal manual effort. You will own the automation quality strategy end-to-end, architect robust test frameworks, and work closely with engineering and product stakeholders to ensure Reflect continues to deliver a best-in-class experience.

• Reporting to the QA Lead, you will define and drive the automation roadmap, communicate risks, and ensure quality gates are met across releases.
• You will own the design and architecture of test automation frameworks and integrate them seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines.
• You will mentor junior QA engineers, conduct test design reviews, and champion best practices across the team.
• You will lead shift-left testing practices, embedding quality early in the development lifecycle within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• You will contribute to validating core Reflect capabilities including AI-driven test creation, cloud-based test execution, visual testing, and cross-browser/mobile coverage

Experience & Background

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in software test automation
• Proven experience designing and architecting automation frameworks from scratch
• Strong experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies using Jira
• Prior experience testing SaaS or cloud-based products is a strong plus
• Proficiency in Selenium, Playwright, or Cypressusing Python or Java — writing clean, maintainable, and reusable automation code
• Ability to automate across web, API, and mobile platforms
• Familiarity with no-code or AI-driven test automation tools (experience with Reflect or similar platforms is a bonus)
• Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Bamboo
• Deep understanding of REST principles and JSON-based data handling
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills — able to influence quality decisions at the project level
• Experience with API testing tools such as RestAssured, Karate, or Postman
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized test environments
• Experience with cloud-based testing platforms such as BrowserStack or Sauce Labs
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior QA engineers

Why you should join the SmartBear crew:

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization – an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know:

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland, Ahmedabad and Bangalore India.
• We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and Built-in Best Places to Work.

SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart, open, driven, accountable, and curious..