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# Senior QA Automation Engineer

- **Company:** Jobot
- **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Automation of Tests, Distributed Systems, Selenium, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Web Applications, Postman, Delivery Pipeline, Cypress (Programming Language), Backend, Integration Tests, Playwright, Selenium Webdriver
- **Published:** June 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobot.com/details/senior-qa-automation-engineer/7fa2875106

## About the Role

*** Must have previous experience working in a startup environment***, * 5+ years of experience in Software QA, Test Automation, or Quality Engineering roles

 * Past experience building and maintaining automated testing frameworks
 * Professional experience testing modern web applications, APIs, and distributed systems
 * Fluent with one or more automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO, etc
 * Experience working with API testing tools and frameworks
 * Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing in deployment workflows

## Description

We're looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to help build and scale our engineering processes. This person will play a critical role in establishing automation frameworks, improving testing practices, and driving quality throughout the software development lifecycle, * Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites across web applications, APIs, and backend services

 * Define and improve QA processes, test strategies, and automation best practices
 * Build and maintain test frameworks that support rapid product development
 * Perform functional, regression and integration testing
 * Analyze test results, troubleshoot issues, and work with engineers to drive resolution


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