Senior QA Automation Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions for web applications and APIs across all product teams.

• Create comprehensive end-to-end UI tests, API tests, and integration tests.

• Establish common automation patterns, tools, and conventions for all teams to utilize.

• Assist engineers in writing and maintaining their own test cases.

• Transform acceptance criteria and manual testing scenarios into automated tests.

• Collaborate with teams to determine which tests to automate and which should remain manual.

• Execute automation within CI/CD pipelines and ensure the maintenance of fast and reliable test suites.

• Diagnose and resolve issues causing flaky tests.

• Develop regression coverage for release testing and provide insights on release readiness based on test outcomes.

• Create automated checks to compare data between legacy and new systems during migration processes.

• Generate repeatable test data and set up environments for testing.

• Compose reproducible defect reports and work with engineers on triage and remediation.

• Collaborate with an external QA team across various time zones and oversee the handover of automated coverage.

• Provide updates on test coverage and suite health to product teams.

• Assist product owners and engineers in crafting testable acceptance criteria.

• Document best practices for automation.

• Mentor developers in writing and owning their tests, including those crafted with agents.

• Help determine the placement of quality gates within CI/CD pipelines while maintaining high standards.

• Identify suitable integration and contract testing between unit tests and full UI tests.

• Establish and review testing standards and best practices across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software QA or test engineering, with at least 3 years focused on writing automated tests in code.

• Proven experience in building and maintaining automation test suites.

• Background in testing web applications and APIs at multiple levels.

• Experience in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong programming abilities in a language suitable for test automation, such as TypeScript or Python.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including coordination with team members across different time zones.

• Comfortable collaborating with product owners and engineers across various teams, as well as with an external QA team.

• A degree in computer science or a related area, or equivalent professional experience.

• Preferred: familiarity with modern end-to-end testing frameworks like Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.

• Preferred: experience in API testing frameworks and executing unit and integration tests in partnership with developers.

• Preferred: experience testing web applications, REST APIs, and event-driven or message-based systems.

• Preferred: experience in validating data migrations and ensuring data consistency between legacy and new systems.

• Preferred: knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, and trunk-based development practices.

• Preferred: experience in performance, accessibility, or security testing.

• Preferred: experience working in Agile Scrum teams and using Jira for test and defect tracking.

• Preferred: experience as the first QA hire or in establishing test automation across multiple teams.

• Preferred: familiarity with legal technology, court reporting, or document and transcript workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Health Savings Account

• Voluntary Term Life Insurance

• Voluntary Long-Term Disability

• Paid Time Off

• Paid Holidays

• 401(k)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)