*6+ Month Contract Opportunity*

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Lead Automation Quality Engineer position! This is a 6+ month contract opportunity with potential extensions or permanent hire. Candidates based in Charlotte, Atlanta, or Toronto preferred. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead test automation implementation across backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
• Design and build a test automation framework (Python, JavaScript/Node, or C#) for:
• API/service testing
• Data validation between legacy SQL Server and new cloud services
• Smoke and regression test orchestration
• Develop tools/utilities for test data creation, reset, and snapshot validation
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Azure DevOps)
• Write and maintain automated sanity checks for environment health after data resets or deployments
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and QA testers on test coverage, environment readiness, and performance validation
• Mentor junior QA engineers

What You'll Need to Have:

• Strong backend/data QA automation lead experience
• 5-7+ years in QA automation or software engineering in test (SDET)
• Proficient in Python or JavaScript for test framework/tool development
• Strong SQL and data validation skills, especially with Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience testing RESTful APIs and microservices
• Familiarity with containerized deployments and AWS services (S3, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch)
• CI/CD integration experience (CodePipeline, Azure DevOps)
• Knowledge of TDD/BDD implementation
• Ability to work in Agile environments with incomplete information

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to event-driven architectures (SQS, SNS, Step Functions)
• Experience with data mocking/stubbing frameworks
• Basic UI testing experience with Playwright or Cypress
• Background in financial services or regulated data environments

Why Join?

• Help build a QA automation practice from scratch
• Have direct impact on product stability and developer velocity
• Partner with high-performing backend, data, and platform teams
• Help drive modernization of a critical enterprise financial system

Location: Charlotte, NC / Atlanta, GA / Toronto, ON

Pay Range: $65-$70+/hr

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