Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer serves as a quality engineering leader within the development organization. This role is responsible for defining and driving test automation strategy, ensuring comprehensive risk-based testing and validation, mentoring team members and improving quality engineering practices across systems. The Senior QA Automation Engineer proactively influences architecture discussions, contributes to shift-left quality initiatives, guides automation framework evolution and ensures production readiness through strong technical judgment and system expertise. A final in-person interview maybe required for this position.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or similar relevant field.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, software test automation, Software Engineer, or Software Development Engineer in Test is desirable OR combination of education and experience.
- Proven experience leading automation strategy and mentoring QA engineers.
- Experience with modern end-to-end automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright or similar).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD integration, Agile development practices, and quality engineering principles.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools responsibly and effectively.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and any applicable role specific development or design software.
Nice To Haves
- Any certifications related to automated testing tools or Agile methodologies are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead quality strategy for assigned domains, ensuring end-to-end production readiness, risk mitigation and alignment with organizational quality standards.
- Define and drive comprehensive, risk-based testing and validation strategies across functional, integration, performance, security and end-to-end workflows.
- Architect, evolve and oversee automation frameworks to ensure scalable, maintainable and CI/CD-integrated testing infrastructure.
- Establish, promote and enforce best practices in automation, shift-left testing and quality engineering across the team.
- Mentor and guide QA engineers through code reviews, framework design discussions, test planning and professional development.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product and DevOps leadership to influence system architecture and design decisions from a quality and risk perspective.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned systems and domains, maintaining deep business and technical workflow expertise.
- Lead root cause analysis efforts for production defects and complex automation failures, identifying systemic validation gaps and implementing preventive improvements.
- Evaluate, introduce and guide adoption of modern testing tools, automation technologies, and AI-assisted development practices, contributing to long-term quality roadmaps and process improvements.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
- Must be able to come to work promptly and regularly.
- Must be able to take direction and work well with others.
- Must be able to work under the stress of deadlines.
- Must be able to concentrate and perform accurately.
- Must be able to react to change productively.
Benefits
- Day-one Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, and flexible spending options like HSA or FSA accounts).
- 401(k) with company match enrollment on day-one.
- Paid, Sick and Volunteer Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave Options
- Employer Paid Life and Disability
- Wellbeing on Demand Program
- Flexible Work Environment with a casual dress code
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
