Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Celara is a rapidly growing enterprise software company focused on restaurant technology. They are seeking a hands-on QA Automation Engineer to join their Kitchen Display System (KDS) team, where the role involves owning and extending automated test coverage for a critical platform used in restaurant operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and expand automated test coverage for the Kitchen Display System (KDS) platform
• Design and execute automated UI, API, regression, and smoke tests
• Build scalable, maintainable automation solutions using established framework patterns and best practices
• Partner closely with developers, product managers, and QA engineers to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Investigate defects, troubleshoot test failures, and identify quality risks early in the development process
• Maintain and improve automated test execution within CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in sprint planning, test strategy discussions, and release validation activities
• Leverage AI-assisted tools and workflows to improve test design, automation development, code reviews, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of quality engineering standards, automation practices, and testing processes

Skills

• 4+ years of hands-on QA Automation, SDET, or Quality Engineering experience
• Strong programming skills in Java and a solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles
• Experience building and maintaining UI automation frameworks using Appium, Selenium, Playwright, or similar technologies
• Experience designing and implementing scalable automated test solutions
• Experience testing REST APIs and working with JSON payloads
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution
• Experience with Maven, Git, and modern software development workflows
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis skills
• Ability to quickly understand and contribute to large, existing codebases
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, test generation, documentation, or code review
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Experience with restaurant technology, POS systems, Kitchen Display Systems (KDS), or other transactional business applications
• Experience with Kotlin
• Experience testing desktop or Electron-based applications
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD platforms
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized testing environments
• Experience with distributed test execution environments
• Experience with performance, reliability, or latency-sensitive testing
• Experience with modern AI-assisted engineering workflows and agentic development tools

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