Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

The Senior Automation QA Engineer is a highly technical quality engineering role focused on designing scalable automation solutions, improving test architecture, and driving efficiency across the testing lifecycle. This position emphasizes hands-on automation, framework evolution, CI/CD integration, and non-functional testing. It is still expected that this position interacts with contractors, successfully delegate work, set goals and effectively controls the outcome.

You will act as a technical quality partner to product, development, and architecture teams—bringing a strong automation-first mindset, identifying better ways to test, and preventing defects early through shift-left practices. This role reports to a Tech Lead and serves as a technical authority and problem solver within the QA discipline.

 

Essential Position Functions

· Design, build, and evolve robust, scalable automation frameworks aligned with product architecture and business goals.

· Lead automation strategy at the solution and system level, ensuring appropriate test coverage across UI, API, integration, and non-functional layers.

· Actively contribute hands-on automation within sprint cycles, prioritizing maintainability, reliability, execution speed and cost reduction.

· Continuously evaluate and improve automation architecture, tools, processed and patterns (e.g., test pyramid adherence, framework modularity, execution optimization).

· Identify and leverage every opportunity to reduce manual effort by introducing automation, improving test data strategies, and eliminating redundant tests.

· Implement and maintain CI/CD integrated automation, ensuring fast, reliable feedback in pipelines.

· Troubleshoot complex automation failures, identify root causes, and implement long-term fixes.

· Design, automate and execute non-functional testing (performance, load, stress, endurance, accessibility, basic security validation).

· Ensure automation and test code follow clean code principles and industry best practices.

· Provide QA perspective throughout the entire product development lifecycle, with strong emphasis on early defect prevention.

· Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and automation-friendly.

· Collaborate with Tech Leads and developers on testability, system design, solution architecture and validation strategies.

· Implement for automation-first and in-sprint automation approaches.

· Identify cross-product and system dependencies early and work proactively to mitigate quality risks.

· Serve as a technical subject-matter expert in automation and quality engineering.

· Share knowledge, patterns, and lessons learned with QA CoE, Automation QA engineers and development teams.

· Contribute to Quality Engineering standards, guidelines, and continuous improvement initiatives.

· Support contractors or offshore teams through technical guidance and clear quality expectations, not formal performance management.

· Proactively identify gaps in tooling, frameworks, or processes and propose actionable improvements.

· Independently estimate complex automation and testing efforts and deliver high-quality solutions on schedule.

· Execute testing and automation aligned with sprint commitments and release goals.

· Communicate and resolve risks, technical debt, and quality concerns early - before escalation is required.

· Create and maintain technical test documentation where it adds value (e.g., framework design, test automation strategy, test summary reports)

· Utilize AI to augment your deliverables.

 

Note: The statements contained herein describe the essential functions of this position but should not be considered to be an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned including work in other areas to cover absences or relief to equalize peak work periods or otherwise