Senior Automation Test Engineer
Rewst•Tampa, FL
•Remote
About The Position
The Senior Automation Test Engineer is a core technical contributor on the QA team, working primarily alongside the QA Automation Architect to design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks across UI, API, and performance layers. This role takes a leading position in leveraging AI-assisted tooling and agent-based approaches to accelerate test creation and expand coverage, while also contributing to performance and load testing as the team matures its capabilities. The Senior Automation Test Engineer brings engineering rigor to quality — writing maintainable, reusable automation code, integrating with CI/CD pipelines for rapid feedback, and serving as a key technical resource for QA engineers building automation skills across squads.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5+ years of experience in a software development engineer in test, QA automation, or equivalent engineering role.
- Strong programming skills in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Java; proficiency with Git and version control practices.
- Experience with UI automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress) and API testing tools (e.g., Postman, REST Assured, or similar), including familiarity with REST APIs and JSON.
- Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
- Demonstrated experience or strong interest in leveraging AI tools and LLM-based agents to assist with test creation and automation workflows.
- Familiarity with performance and load testing concepts and tools (e.g., JMeter, k6, Locust, or similar).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and build effective solutions.
- Comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-paced, evolving environment with shifting priorities.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building or contributing to AI agent workflows or prompt engineering for software testing use cases.
- Experience with cloud-based testing environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Previous experience in a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) company or low-code/no-code platform.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and experience working in Agile teams.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the QA Automation Architect to build, maintain, and evolve scalable and reusable test automation frameworks covering both UI and API layers.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts for UI workflows and API endpoints, supporting functional, regression, and performance testing requirements across the platform.
- Ensure automation solutions integrate seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback loops.
- Contribute to automation best practices, coding standards, and shared tooling to support QA engineers across squads.
- Identify gaps in test coverage and work proactively to address them through expanded automation.
- Pick up and validate tickets from the Platform squad, testing and verifying platform-level changes as part of the broader QA workflow.
- Leverage AI tools and agent-based frameworks (e.g., Claude or similar LLMs) to accelerate test generation, maintenance, and coverage expansion.
- Build and refine agent skills and prompting strategies that enable reliable, repeatable AI-assisted test authoring.
- Collaborate with the QA Automation Architect to integrate AI-assisted approaches into the broader automation workflow in a maintainable and scalable way.
- Stay current on emerging AI tooling relevant to software testing and advocate for adoption where it delivers measurable value.
- Assist in the design and execution of performance and load testing efforts to validate application behavior under realistic and peak conditions.
- Build performance test suites and analyze results using tools such as k6 or similar.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and communicate findings clearly to engineering and product stakeholders.
- Partner with developers, QA engineers, and the QA Automation Architect to ensure automation efforts align with feature development and application requirements.
- Analyze test execution results and provide clear reporting on defects, coverage, and automation health.
- Share knowledge and provide guidance to QA engineers building automation skills across squads.
- Advocate for continuous improvement in testing processes, tooling, and infrastructure.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity options and benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work-life balance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
