Cypress Automation Engineer - CTC
Posted 1 week ago by 1753947183
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The role of Cypress Automation Engineer involves leading the testing strategy and process improvements for automated testing solutions across a product suite. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and mentoring of less experienced team members while overseeing the implementation of testing tools and practices. The engineer will also be responsible for modernizing the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process and providing technical guidance on complex issues. This is a fully remote position for an 18-month contract.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan, implement, and oversee the testing approach across the product suite.
- Document test strategy and best practices, driving continuous improvement.
- Review and assess current testing approaches, proposing enhancements.
- Collaborate with technical peers, cross-functional teams, and business stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the testing team.
- Investigate and oversee the rollout of automation testing tools.
- Perform code reviews for automation tests and frameworks.
- Train team members to enhance automated testing skills.
- Provide technical vision for complex ideas to various management levels.
- Lead strategic quality initiatives for the Operating Unit.
- Manage the legacy UAT testing process and create a modernization roadmap.
Key Skills:
- 4-8 years of experience in Automation.
- Cypress automation experience using JavaScript or Typescript; Playwright experience accepted.
- Strong UI testing skills; API skills are a plus.
- Experience with SQL is nice to have.
- Strong preference for candidates with a computer science degree.
- Experience in high-level programming languages if no Cypress experience.
- Ability to mentor less experienced team members.
- Strong collaboration and leadership skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Top Skills Required/Notes:
4-8 years experience in Automation
a. Cypress automation experience using either JavaScript or Typescript, would also accept Playwright experience, candidates who only have Selenium
b. If the candidate doesn t have experience in Cypress, Java experience or high-level programming language experience.
c. Strong UI testing skills, API skills are nice to have. They will be testing UI of various we applications. UI is written in Angular. All applications are workflow applications used in the ratings process
d. SQL, nice to have. Strong preference to candidates with computer science degree
e. 18 month contract, 100 remote is okay
f. Not building new framework they are building code for automation scripts
Job Description:
Role/Responsibilities:
Test strategy: Planning, implementation, and overall oversight and responsibility for testing approach across the product suite. Document test strategy and best practices and relentlessly drive improvement and implementation.
Test process improvement: Continually review and assess current approach to testing, identify areas for improvement, and propose and implement process enhancements.
Collaboration and leadership: Collaborate with technical peers, cross-functional teams, and business stakeholders to deliver industry-leading automated testing solutions.
Technical testing leadership and guidance to the entire testing team and mentoring less experienced team members.
Test tooling: Investigate and oversee rollout of open source and commercial automation testing tools where appropriate and aligned to Test strategy.
Perform code reviews for automation tests and frameworks.
Train others to improve the automated testing skills of the whole QA team.
Provide technical vision for highly complex ideas and issues to varied audiences including various management levels.
Initiate and lead strategic quality initiatives for the Operating Unit (OU) (e.g., test data management, environment virtualization, security testing, developer and unit test assistance, CI/CD process).
Own and run current legacy UAT testing process and create a roadmap for modernization of the UAT process/approach.