Project Overview
Build functionality allowing journalists to report their effort and get paid accordingly, replacing an outdated legacy solution.
Migrate the current user portal from Azure/AWS Lambda/Amazon SQS to MARS.
Backend and Lambda functions are written in Java; frontend is built with JS + React.
Role Overview
Combined manual and automated testing role, with automation as the main priority .
Frontend automation currently uses Cypress with JavaScript.
API tests are written as Postman collections and executed via Newman in the CI/CD pipeline.
A possible future improvement: consolidating UI and API tests into a single automation framework.
Documentation Context
No functional documentation exists for the current application.
No test documentation or test cases currently exist.
Available references are limited to code-generated documentation, Jira ticket descriptions, and occasional Confluence pages for large Epics.
Required Skills & Experience
Comfortable working across both manual and automated testing.
Hands-on experience with Cypress or Playwright (or similar JS-based automation frameworks).
Experience working with Postman for API testing.
Familiarity with Java and JavaScript.
Proven experience building test automation frameworks from scratch.
Strong presentation skills – able to explain and justify automation framework design decisions to stakeholders.
Nice to Have
Experience with AWS infrastructure.
Experience with BDD (Behavior-Driven Development), particularly writing acceptance criteria in tickets.
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