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# Senior QA Automation Engineer

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $91,520.0 - $112,320.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, C Sharp (Programming Language), Code Review, Continuous Integration, Apache JMeter, Software Testing Automation Framework, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Performance Testing, Postman, Playwright, Api Management
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3377259331&tx=KP4545FFL&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

5+ years of professional quality assurance and test automation experience, including 3+ years experience with modern automation frameworks and integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

-Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks and regression suites using Playwright

-Experience developing automation solutions in C# or TypeScript

-Experience creating and maintaining end-to-end, regression, smoke, and API automated tests

-Strong API testing experience

-Experience performing automation code reviews and enforcing automation standards and best practices

-Ability to analyze test failures, troubleshoot issues, and improve overall automation reliability

-Experience mentoring, training, or supporting QA Engineers on automation tools and frameworks -Familiarity with tools like Postman for API validation

-Experience with performance testing tools, particularly JMeter

-Exposure to AI-driven tools or techniques within testing workflows

## Description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join a quality engineering team in Richmond, VA focused on supporting and enhancing a suite of learning-based applications. This individual will serve as a technical leader for Playwright-based automation efforts, developing and maintaining automated test solutions, expanding automation coverage, performing code reviews, and helping establish automation standards across the QA organization. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of professional quality assurance and test automation experience, including 3+ years working with modern automation frameworks and CI/CD environments, along with hands-on expertise in Playwright, C# or TypeScript development, API testing, and a passion for mentoring other engineers while continuously improving automation maturity, testing processes, and overall product quality. The pay for this role ranges from $44-$54/hour based on experience.


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