Test Engineer (Remote - 6 Month Contract Role)

Team: Tech

Location: Remote - CST Timezone

Commitment: Contract

Workplace Type: remote

What Youll Do:

Design, test, and maintain automated tests for services
Lead efforts in drafting test scenarios and writing tests to cover functional use cases for each feature, including asynchronous/event-driven flows and GraphQL API contracts
Collaborate with teams across Yum services to triage bugs and investigate failures in various environments
Monitor and maintain test pipelines, and use observability tools and test logs to identify and fix failures
Clearly communicate bugs and proactively initiate discussions to aid issue discovery and resolution
Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance the development workflow and improve delivery velocity

What Youll Bring:

Solid proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript; experience with test runners such as Mocha
Hands-on experience with UI test automation frameworks, including Playwright
Demonstrable, hands-on experience testing event-driven / Pub-Sub systems (e.g., MQTT, WebSockets, SSE) including designing tests around message ordering, delivery guarantees (at-least-once/at-most-once), reconnection/retry logic, and asynchronous event assertions. 
Deep, hands-on experience testing GraphQL APIs: Writing and maintaining tests for complex nested queries, mutations, and subscriptions; mocking schemas/resolvers; handling pagination, error responses, and N+1 query issues. 
Working knowledge of cloud environments and containerized deployments, including Docker images and container registries
Working knowledge of Git and Git-based workflows, including CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
Experience analyzing and correlating application and service logs across multiple services (e.g., tracing errors, debugging test failures)
Experience using Jira (or similar tools) for task and issue tracking
Familiarity with Android test automation using frameworks such as Appium