As a QA Automation Engineer at DATAMAXIS, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our web-based applications. With a focus on automation, you will be responsible for designing and executing comprehensive test cases that align with business requirements and acceptance criteria. Your expertise in automation testing will be essential as you enhance and execute existing automation suites using the Selenium-Java framework, and author service-level scripts using Katalon Studio. You will also initiate and monitor test automation runs on multiple virtual machines through Jenkins, ensuring that our CI/CD pipelines are efficient and effective. In this hybrid role based in Mundelein, IL, you will work closely with Agile/Scrum teams to execute QA testing, interpret test results, and document outcomes. Your ability to analyze results from automation test runs will be critical in identifying issues and ensuring that they are tracked to closure in our issue tracking system, JIRA. You will also be responsible for regression testing applications prior to their release into UAT and production environments, executing smoke tests and regression tests to verify code deployments and system changes. Your technical understanding of web and mobile application development will enable you to provide valuable feedback on requirements, ensuring completeness and testability. You will also assist in maintaining development and testing environments, including user accounts and application configurations. As a highly motivated and dependable individual, you will demonstrate excellent communication skills, working independently while also collaborating with automation leads when further technical assistance is needed.