Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation)
About The Position
Join our team as a Senior QA Automation Engineer, where your primary focus will be designing, developing, and maintaining robust automated testing solutions across our API and UI layers for an industry-leading SaaS application. In addition to core automation responsibilities, you will contribute to load and performance testing initiatives to help validate system scalability and reliability. As a senior member of the team, you will mentor and guide others, promote best practices in automation and testing strategy, and help drive quality across a distributed engineering organization.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in an Agile, highly collaborative, team-based environment
- 5+ years of experience developing API and UI test automation solutions
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright, etc.)
- Experience contributing to load/performance testing efforts (e.g., JMeter, k6, Gatling)
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns
- Proficiency in languages such as C#, Java, or JavaScript
- Strong understanding of web and browser technologies
- BS and/or MS in a technical discipline (Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred)
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test suites for API and UI layers
- Collaborate with QA and development teams to define and implement a
- Ensure automated tests are integrated into the CI/CD pipeline to improve efficiency and accelerate delivery
- Contribute to load, stress, and endurance testing efforts to validate system performance and scalability
- Assist in identifying performance bottlenecks and partner with engineering teams on remediation efforts
- Analyze test failures, perform root cause analysis, and create actionable defect reports
- Validate software to ensure it meets requirements and maintains high quality standards
- Perform manual testing where automation is not appropriate
- Promote consistency in testing practices across a distributed set of development teams
- Recommend improvements to automation, testing processes, and overall quality practices
- Mentor team members on automation development, automation design patterns, testing strategies, and best practices
- Provide technical leadership in building maintainable, scalable, and reusable test frameworks
Benefits
- Competitive salary - $95,000-$125,000
- Employer sponsored health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Retirement plan with company contribution
- Annual company profit sharing
- Personal development/training budget
- Open, collaborative work environment
- Extensive 2-week onboarding plan
- Comprehensive mentorship program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
