Staff QA Automation Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the architecture, governance, and long-term roadmap for the enterprise automation ecosystem encompassing UI, API, performance, accessibility, visual, and end-to-end testing.

• Establish automation architecture, quality engineering strategies, scalable design patterns, reusable framework components, and engineering standards.

• Assess and implement AI-assisted test generation, self-healing automation, intelligent test optimization, and observability technologies.

• Design reusable Page Objects, API clients, authentication utilities, fixtures, reporting modules, test data management, and validation libraries.

• Develop strategies for API contract validation, response schema verification, database validation, Salesforce integration testing, and cross-platform data integrity.

• Oversee enterprise performance testing for capacity planning, scalability, stress, spike, and production readiness.

• Manage the health, architecture, scalability, and reliability of automated execution pipelines across Azure DevOps, GitHub, Docker, and cloud environments.

• Formulate reporting strategies that integrate Jira, Xray, Allure, Microsoft Teams, Prometheus, Grafana, and other engineering platforms.

• Direct investigations into complex automation failures, pipeline instability, flaky tests, performance degradation, and integration issues.

• Establish enterprise-wide automation governance, conduct technical reviews, set engineering standards, and provide architectural guidance.

• Provide mentorship to senior and mid-level quality engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership, architects, product management, DevOps, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment of automation strategy with business objectives.

• Act as a representative for quality engineering in architectural planning and communicate metrics, AI adoption strategies, and return on investment to executive leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent education and progressive professional experience.

• A minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in software quality assurance, test automation, quality engineering, or software development in test.

• Proven success in leading enterprise automation strategy, architecting scalable frameworks, and influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams without direct authority.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Playwright, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, UI testing, API automation, integration testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing, contract testing, and performance testing.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline architecture, cloud-native engineering practices, and enterprise system integrations.

• Expert-level knowledge of enterprise test automation architecture, quality engineering principles, and contemporary software development practices.

• Capability to implement AI-assisted engineering, predictive quality analytics, self-healing automation, and intelligent test optimization.

• Advanced expertise in performance engineering, API contract validation, cloud-based development platforms, Git workflows, Azure DevOps, GitHub, SQL, enterprise integrations, and observability technologies.

• Proficiency in solving complex technical challenges across distributed systems.

• Ability to influence architectural decisions, establish enterprise engineering standards, foster organizational consensus, and promote continuous improvement across cross-functional teams.

• Preferred experience with enterprise automation platforms, AI-assisted testing, accessibility automation, containerized execution, cloud platforms, healthcare or regulated industries, and certifications such as ISTQB Advanced or Expert Level, Test Automation Engineer, Microsoft Azure, AWS, GitHub, Salesforce, Agile, or DevOps.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical coverage

• Dental coverage

• Vision coverage

• Paid time off

• 401(k) matching

• Wellness perks

• IV therapy

• Compounded medications