Platform Automation Engineer - Cypress/Playwright

Bread Financial•Chadds Ford Township, PA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Platform Automation Engineer is a role that focuses on supporting efforts to enhance test automation, develop robust testing frameworks, and ensure the quality and performance of platform systems. Engineers in this role engage in coding, testing, and code reviews, contributing to the improvement of applications and processes for scalability and efficiency. This position involves collaborating across teams to deliver high-quality solutions and providing guidance to junior engineers in adopting automation practices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related area.
2+ years of work experience in a related field such as Software Engineering, DevSecOps, or Quality Engineering.
Agile Methodology
Scripting Languages
Test Automation
Test Data Management
CI/CD
Cloud Platform
Version Control (Git)
Monitoring Tools
Debug Tools
Multitasking
Problem Solving
Communication

Nice To Haves

5+ years of work experience in a related field such as Software Engineering, DevSecOps, or Quality Engineering.

Responsibilities

Collaborate on the design and implementation of quality engineering practices for financial technology solutions.
Maintain test frameworks to ensure efficient testing across the enterprise.
Work on improving automation frameworks for scalable test automation.
Help define and advocate for testing standards, automation strategies, and best practices in the SDLC.
Support efforts to address performance bottlenecks and quality gaps.
Contribute to the development of tools for managing test data across environments to support testing.
Integrate testing tools and frameworks into the CI/CD pipeline, focusing on automating testing within the build and deployment process.
Develop and maintain automated test environments and data solutions to ensure system reliability, providing engineering teams with necessary tools.
Collaborate with quality engineering, product, and business teams on best practices in test-driven development (TDD) and automation. Provide guidance to junior engineers on adopting automation practices.
Develop and maintain tools for performance, load, and stress testing, ensuring alignment with real-world use cases. Work with infrastructure teams to configure scalable testing environments.
Demonstrate proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python) and contribute to automated testing frameworks. Support platform quality engineering in financial technology and cloud environments.
Participate in the adoption of emerging testing technologies, ensuring alignment with the company's innovation and quality strategy.

Benefits

Bread Financial offers medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance, supplemental medical plans, and short and long-term disability) to eligible associates (regular full-time associates scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more) and their spouses/domestic partners, and child(ren) under the age of 26.
New associate elected coverage begins on date of hire (with the exception of disability coverage which has a 6-month waiting period).
Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave for eligible parents is available after a 180-day waiting period.
Hired associates can immediately enroll in Bread Financial’s 401(k) plan.
All associates receive 11 paid holidays.
Associates have discretion in managing their time away from work through the Flexible Time Off (FTO) program and may need to notify and receive approval from their manager prior to taking the time off.
Associates (except those located in Illinois) receive 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (“PSST”) upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year.
Illinois associates receive 40 hours of Illinois PSST upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year and 40 hours of Illinois Paid Leave upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year.
Illinois Paid Leave must be used before associates in Illinois will be approved to take FTO.
Hired associates will be able to elect the purchase company stock during offering periods in June and December.
You will be eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance.