[Remote] QA Automation Engineer (QB - QA - 20260617)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Celara is a rapidly growing enterprise software company focused on restaurant technology. They are seeking a hands-on QA Automation Engineer to join their Kitchen Display System (KDS) team, where the role involves owning and extending automated test coverage for a critical platform used in restaurant operations.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and expand automated test coverage for the Kitchen Display System (KDS) platform
- Design and execute automated UI, API, regression, and smoke tests
- Build scalable, maintainable automation solutions using established framework patterns and best practices
- Partner closely with developers, product managers, and QA engineers to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
- Investigate defects, troubleshoot test failures, and identify quality risks early in the development process
- Maintain and improve automated test execution within CI/CD pipelines
- Participate in sprint planning, test strategy discussions, and release validation activities
- Leverage AI-assisted tools and workflows to improve test design, automation development, code reviews, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of quality engineering standards, automation practices, and testing processes
Skills
- 4+ years of hands-on QA Automation, SDET, or Quality Engineering experience
- Strong programming skills in Java and a solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles
- Experience building and maintaining UI automation frameworks using Appium, Selenium, Playwright, or similar technologies
- Experience designing and implementing scalable automated test solutions
- Experience testing REST APIs and working with JSON payloads
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution
- Experience with Maven, Git, and modern software development workflows
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis skills
- Ability to quickly understand and contribute to large, existing codebases
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, test generation, documentation, or code review
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Experience with restaurant technology, POS systems, Kitchen Display Systems (KDS), or other transactional business applications
- Experience with Kotlin
- Experience testing desktop or Electron-based applications
- Experience with Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD platforms
- Familiarity with Docker and containerized testing environments
- Experience with distributed test execution environments
- Experience with performance, reliability, or latency-sensitive testing
- Experience with modern AI-assisted engineering workflows and agentic development tools
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