Test Engineer

Job Title : Test Engineer

Location : Austin TX ( Onsite Role)

Job Type: Fulltime

We are seeking a Webdriver IO Lead to drive end to end UI test automation strategy framework engineering and quality governance for mission critical web applications. You will own the WDIO stack-designing and scaling frameworks enabling teams on best practices integrating CI/CD and ensuring reliable maintainable and observable test suites. Experience with TypeScript and framework level design is essential; Java Selenium expertise is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the automation strategy for web UI: assess current state define target architecture prioritize automation backlog and report quality KPIs.
• Design build and evolve WDIO frameworks (TypeScript/JavaScript): Page Object / Screenplay modular utilities service layers test data & environment management configuration and secrets handling.
• Enable speed & stability: parallel execution smart waits resilient locators network stubbing/mocking retries and flaky test governance.
• Shift left quality practices: coding standards (ESLint/Prettier) unit & component tests where applicable PR checks and static analysis for test code.
• Integrate CI/CD: Jenkins/Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions pipelines test artifacts (videos screenshots) trend dashboards and quality gates.
• Reporting & observability: Allure (or equivalent) failure triage workflows and actionable defect analytics for stakeholders.
• Cross browser & cross platform coverage: local/grid execution cloud labs (e.g. BrowserStack/Sauce Labs) responsive checks.
• Security & compliance hygiene: data masking test data strategies (synthetic/anonymized) and access controls for pipelines and reports.
• Team leadership: mentor SDETs conduct code reviews establish DoD/DoR for automation plan capacity and coordinate with Dev Product and Release.
• Quality advocacy: partner with Product/Engineering to align test strategy with release goals SLAs and risk appetite; communicate status risks and mitigations.

Required Skills

• 8 years in QA Automation with 3 years on WebdriverIO delivering maintainable frameworks at product scale.
• Strong in TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem npm/yarn and test runners (Mocha/Jasmine/Cucumber).
• Proven framework engineering using Page Object / Screenplay custom helpers and service hooks ( tuning).
• Hands on with Allure (or similar) reporting artifact management and pipeline level test orchestration.
  Expertise in CI/CD (Jenkins/Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) Git workflows branching strategies and PR quality gates.
• Solid understanding of web fundamentals (DOM HTTP cookies/storage network calls) and async patterns in WDIO.
• Experience with cloud device/browser grids and parallelization at scale.
• Strong stakeholder communication estimation and leadership of 4 8 SDETs.

Good to Have

• Java Selenium (hybrid stacks migration paths or co existence strategies).
• API automation (Postman/Newman REST Assured or Axios/WDIO services); contract testing basics.
• BDD with Cucumber; Gherkin standards and living documentation.
• Containerization (Docker) for local reproducibility and pipeline consistency.
• Accessibility testing practices and tooling; basic performance checks.
• Mobile test automation (Appium) and service virtualization.
• Exposure to Azure DevOps/Jira for backlog and traceability.