Test Automation Engineer
Posted 13 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Senior Test Automation Engineer ”
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- Expected experience
- 4+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
No salary listed for this role.
We are looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our Quality Engineering team and help us raise the bar on software quality across a global HR and payroll platform, a complex, distributed B2B SaaS platform. You will work closely with product owners from the earliest stages of development, own automation coverage across frontend, backend, and microservice boundaries, and play a hands-on role in evolving our testing infrastructure.
What You’ll Do
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Design, implement, and maintain automated E2E test suites covering UI, API, and third-party integration points.
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Champion shift-left practices by embedding in sprint planning, story refinement, and design reviews to catch quality risks early.
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Own regression testing, exploratory testing, and production validation across critical product workflows.
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Write type-safe, schema-validated test code using TypeScript and Zod to minimize false positives and improve maintainability.
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Build and maintain E2E and component tests with Playwright/Cypress, covering critical user flows and edge cases.
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Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable feedback to developers.
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Design and execute API test coverage using Postman and REST-assured.
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Test event-driven and asynchronous workflows across microservice boundaries.
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Identify gaps in coverage, prioritize them against risk, and drive resolution with a pragmatic mindset.
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Collaborate in a QA team, contributing to shared standards, tooling decisions, and documentation.
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Identify, track, and triage bugs using tools like Jira and Xray.
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Mentor engineers on testability and release confidence.
What You'll Bring
- 4+ years of hands-on test automation experience in production software environments.
- Strong TypeScript skills: you write test code that is clean, readable, and easy to extend.
- Solid experience with Playwright or Cypress for E2E, both UI and API testing.
- Familiarity with Zod or other runtime schema-validation libraries.
- Hands-on expertise across the whole STLC, including testing patterns and architectures (e.g., Page Object Model, fixtures and factories, data-driven testing) and end-to-end test design strategies.
- API testing expertise with Postman and/or REST-assured across RESTful and event-driven interfaces.