SDET Automation QA Engineer

Job Title : SDET / Automation / QA Engineer

Location : Houston TX

Term : C2C/W2

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled SDET / Automation / QA Engineer to join the Octiv / ORION platform team. This role focuses on building maintaining and scaling automated test frameworks for complex distributed industrial applications. You will work across UI API messaging and infrastructure layers embedding quality into every stage of the development and delivery pipeline.

This position is ideal for someone who thrives in automation-first testing cloud-native systems and CI/CD-driven engineering environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design develop and maintain end-to-end (E2E) integration and system-level automated tests for Octiv products

Build and extend Playwright-based UI automation for Orion UI and related web applications

Develop robust Python-based automation frameworks following strict linting formatting and type-checking standards

Implement testing around event-driven and messaging systems including MQTT-based workflows

Create and maintain Dockerized test environments for local integration and CI execution

Integrate automated tests into Azure DevOps pipelines ensuring reliable quality gates

Collaborate with product UI backend and DevOps teams to identify test gaps and improve system testability

Participate in code reviews with a strong focus on test quality maintainability and reliability

Support and evolve internal tools such as CLI utilities simulators and test orchestration scripts

Troubleshoot flaky tests and improve test stability across environments

Required Technical Skills

Test Automation & Languages

Python (advanced) for automation framework and tooling development

Strong experience with end-to-end UI testing preferably using Playwright

Familiarity with type checking (mypy) linting (ruff) and automated formatting

Experience designing scalable and maintainable test frameworks

Infrastructure & Tooling

Docker & Docker Compose for test environment orchestration

Experience testing distributed systems and microservices

Familiarity with Redis messaging systems or simulators

Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML)

Cloud & DevOps

Working knowledge of Azure (ACR pipelines environment configuration)

Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD workflows

Understanding of secrets management and environment-based configuration

APIs & Messaging

Experience testing MQTT-based systems or other event-driven architectures

API testing and validation in automation-heavy environments

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