Role Overview
We are seeking a skilled Quality Engineering Automation Engineer to embed directly within our application development teams. This is an engineering-led role focused on designing, building, and sustaining automated test systems that improve product quality, delivery confidence, and system resiliency. The ideal candidate approaches quality as a software engineering discipline - writing maintainable test code, thinking systemically about failure modes, and working side-by-side with developers to shift quality left. This role is not primarily about manual testing or test case management; it is about building reliable, code-driven automation at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Test Design & Implementation
Design and implement automated test suites that span multiple layers of the application stack - from unit and integration tests through to end-to-end scenarios
Build stable, maintainable tests for both frontend interfaces and backend services, using programming languages and frameworks appropriate to the technology stack
Develop API and service-level tests that validate contracts, data flows, and business logic across distributed systems
Implement resiliency and non-functional tests to validate system stability, reliability, and graceful degradation under failure conditions
Test Infrastructure & Strategy
Create test harnesses, mocks, stubs, and test data strategies that enable reliable, repeatable automation
Contribute to quality gates and automation standards within build and deployment pipelines to enable continuous testing
Support test strategies for applications integrated with cloud-based services and infrastructure
Diagnose and resolve test failures in collaboration with application engineers, improving signal quality and reducing flakiness
Engineering Collaboration
Partner closely with application engineers to embed testing into feature development from the outset
Influence engineering quality practices across teams, helping define standards and patterns for testability
Continuously improve test coverage, execution speed, and overall feedback loop quality
What Success Looks Like (First 6 12 Months)
Automated test coverage is measurably expanded across frontend and backend systems
Continuous testing provides fast, reliable signal on code changes throughout the pipeline
Defects are consistently detected earlier in the development lifecycle, reducing downstream cost
End-to-end tests are stable, trusted, and actively maintained by the broader engineering team
Application engineers are collaborating on and contributing to automated tests as a standard practice
Production incidents attributable to regressions show a measurable decline over time
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent professional experience
3 6 years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering or test automation in a software product environment
Strong programming proficiency in at least one modern, widely-adopted language; ability to write clean, maintainable test code
Job Description
Demonstrated experience building automated tests for backend APIs and services, including validation of request/response contracts and error handling
Experience with automated testing of modern web-based frontend applications
Familiarity with version control practices and collaborative software development workflows
Ability to work closely with software engineers in Agile delivery teams, contributing directly to sprints and feature work
Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on experience with end-to-end UI test automation, including strategies for managing test reliability and reducing flakiness
Experience with API testing approaches including contract testing, schema validation, and servicelevel verification
Familiarity with component-level testing strategies and visual regression concepts for frontend systems
Experience testing applications that integrate with cloud services, including awareness of infrastructure-related failure scenarios
Exposure to performance, resiliency, or reliability testing - such as load testing or chaos engineering concepts
Understanding of test automation design patterns, including mocking, test isolation, and test data management
Familiarity with behaviour-driven development (BDD) practices or structured test management approaches is a plus, but not required
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: 10109301
- Position Id: 2026-18550
- Posted 4 hours ago
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