QA Automation Engineer

Flowplay•Seattle, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a collaborative and forward-thinking experienced QA Automation Engineer to join our established QA team as our resident Automation Specialist. You will be joining a close-knit QA Team. While your peers possess deep domain knowledge and excel at manual exploratory testing, our current processes need enhanced automation. This position is located in Seattle and requires two days per week in office. You will act as a specialized peer to the team. Your mission is to design, build and deploy our test automation framework, while collaborating with the existing team to identify automation opportunities. You will also act as a mentor, creating accessible pipelines and training QA peers to write and execute light automation scripts over time.

Requirements

6+ years of software QA experience, with a proven track record of building automation frameworks from scratch.
Knowledge with automation frameworks such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, Puppeteer, Appium.
Programming Languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
API Test experience using, Postman, SoapUI, GraphQL or Swagger/OpenAPI
Outstanding interpersonal skills with a genuine passion for peer mentoring, coaching, and creating accessible documentation for manual testers.
Strong programming/scripting proficiency in at least one (ideally more) of our core languages: JavaScript, Java, or C#.
Cross-Platform Testing: Experience testing web and mobile applications across multiple browsers and devices.

Nice To Haves

Experience or familiarity testing within game engines, specifically Unity (e.g., Unity Test Framework, AltTester) or the Haxe ecosystem.
Familiarity with continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins).
Knowledge of project management tools such as Jira.

Responsibilities

Evaluate, select, and build robust test automation frameworks that integrate seamlessly across our web and mobile game environments.
Partner closely with QA team and leadership to understand current manual test suites, identify high-value regression tests to automate, and lead training sessions to up-skill the team in basic automation scripting.
Balance framework development with manual exploratory testing alongside the team, ensuring a smooth user experience and high-quality releases.
Work with Ops and Engineering to integrate automated tests into our deployment pipelines under the guidance of the QA Manager.
Author clear, highly detailed bug reports and collaborate closely with developers and your QA team using Jira to drive resolutions.
Work closely with engineering partners to integrate quality into the development lifecycle.
Audit the software development lifecycle to guarantee alignment with approved plans, customer needs, regulatory expectations and Quality System standards.