The QA/Test Automation Engineer role involves working with customers to ensure software quality and reliability by designing, implementing, and evolving automated testing frameworks (primarily Selenium) and other QA tools, often as part of partially outsourced teams acting as remote QA experts. The position is part of an internal engineering team and focuses on building, executing, and maintaining automated test suites with Selenium, collaborating with developers and product teams to integrate automated testing into deployment pipelines. Responsibilities include automation development, defect tracking (isolating, replicating, and documenting bugs with logs and reproduction steps), and covering embedded software, backend/server applications, and system integrations while establishing and improving quality processes and testing methodologies across development teams. The role requires defining testing strategies across the full software development lifecycle, setting guidelines for test case design, coverage, traceability and documentation, driving the test automation strategy, and ensuring automated testing is integrated into CI/CD pipelines; familiarity with code generation tools for QA/testing is also noted. Additional duties include enhancing defect management and root cause analysis processes, defining strategies for system testing environments, simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing where needed, and ensuring compliance with relevant quality standards, cybersecurity requirements, and software development processes.
