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)