Sr. QE Automation Engineer

Continental General • Austin, TX

13d • $130,000 - $140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Looking to join a growing company dedicated to helping others? We offer that, plus competitive salaries, a culture of learning, and a fast-paced environment. This is a hybrid position with 3 days in-office. Join our team to help make a difference in the lives of others! About Continental General: The Continental General family of companies has provided insurance, including life and long-term care policies, to individuals and groups for over 30 years, and currently supports over 200,000 policyholders. Both our insurance company, Continental General Insurance Company, and our third-party administrator, Continental General Services, are committed to the continuous development of our infrastructure, processes, and people. The group is actively growing through expansion of both its insurance portfolio and its administrative services. With each opportunity, we take a collaborative approach to address challenges and provide unique solutions. Position Summary: As a Sr. QE Automation Engineer, you will be the primary technical lead for our Quality Engineering ecosystem. You will design, implement (hands on experience is MUST), and scale End-To-End automation frameworks for UI and API layers, while pioneering the integration of AI first mindset and tools adoption from legacy workflows ensuring our rapid release cycles are backed by a robust, “self-healing” scalable automation suite. This role requires a hybrid of elite software development skills in QE and a strategic and collaborative architectural mindset to “Shift Left” and drive a culture of Quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in SDET role, with at least 3 years in design and implementation of QE test automations frameworks.
• Expert hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and tools (Selenium Web Driver, Playwright, TestNG, Junit, AI tools).
• Mastery of one or more test automation foundations such as Page Object Model (POM), and Page Component Object Model (PCOM) for robust automation.
• Expertise with API testing and automations tools (Postman, REST Assured, SOAP UI).
• Experience with performance / scalability testing and automation tools (JMeter, Gatling).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Foundational and working knowledge of LLMs and usage of Gen AI or Agentic AI testing frameworks (Open AI, Claude) to optimize test maintenance and improved automation execution efficiency.
• Experience with DevOps containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native testing environments).
• Proficiency in test management tools (Jira, Zephyr, TestRail).
• Understanding of security testing principles and tools.
• Well versed in Agile, DevOps and TDD/BDD methodologies.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the insurance or finance industry is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Automation Framework Architecture: Design and build modular, maintainable, and scalable automation E2E frameworks from scratch for complex, dynamic UI (e.g., Playwright, Selenium) and API (e.g., REST Assured, Postman).
• AI Tooling Integration: Lead the adoption of AI-driven capabilities such as self-healing test scripts, AI generated test cases using LLM’s (Open AI, Claude), and intelligent defect prediction.
• DevOps Integration: Integrate the automation scripts for functional, regression, performance, and end-to-end into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline).
• QE Technical Leadership: Establish the best automation practices, coding standards, and reusable component libraries to be used across teams/projects.
• Strategy & Collaboration: Partner with developers, and product owners to define test strategies (TDD/BDD) and ensure deep testability is built into the product from day one.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance, organize continuous learning to transition manual QA engineers into automation capable Quality Engineers, and code reviews for SDET’s and QE engineers to elevate the team’s overall engineering maturity.
• Data & Compliance: Architect test data management strategies that manage sensitive PHI/PII data while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Target Bonus Program
• Retirement Savings – 401(k) with a company match
• Comprehensive Medical insurance through BlueCross BlueShield of Texas.
• Company-paid dental, vision, short-term & long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Work-Life Balance – This role offers 20+ days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and paid volunteer time off.
• Flexible Work Options & Perks – Hybrid opportunity, wellness programs, and weekly paid lunch for onsite staff.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) & Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) – Includes a company match for HSAs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level