Software Automation Test Engineer(Contract) at Testvox
India
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Jul 14, 2026
India
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract QA role focused on building and maintaining automation frameworks for web and API applications. Day-to-day work covers writing and executing automated test scripts, validating REST APIs, tracking defects, and supporting CI/CD pipelines within an Agile team. Suited to an experienced test automation engineer comfortable working independently on a remote, long-term engagement.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 3,000–10,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The Required Technical Skills section lists Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and Tosca together without qualification — all four are marked as hard gates, though in practice a candidate strong in two or three of these frameworks would likely be competitive; the JD does not distinguish between them.
Azure DevOps and Jira both appear in the Required section as defect/project tracking tools; they are treated as interchangeable alternatives for that requirement rather than two separate hard gates.
Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, and C# are listed under Preferred Skills as interchangeable language options — one skill entry with alternatives captures this.
Mobile Automation Testing is explicitly flagged as 'preferred' in the Preferred Skills section.
The degree requirement states a Bachelor's in a relevant field, but no equivalent-experience clause is offered; however, the overall framing ('Qualifications' alongside soft skills) and common contract-role practice make this a soft gate — the degree requirement is set to None as the JD does not use hard gating language for the degree.
No compensation range is stated anywhere in the posting.
The posting specifies immediate joiners only and a minimum 1-year extendable contract.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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