Principal Automation Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by 1762859756
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Principal Automation Engineer role is a multiyear contract position focused on leading and hands-on development of test automation solutions. The candidate should have extensive experience in automation architecture and leadership, particularly in collaboration with various stakeholders. This remote position requires working PST hours, with a preference for candidates located near Rosemead. A strong technical background and the ability to solve complex problems are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide testing leadership and guidance by architecting testing solutions and resolving complex technical problems.
- Develop innovative approaches and solutions in Quality Engineering, Automation, and CI/CD.
- Lead multiple automation efforts and influence best practices adoption.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including application SMEs and project managers.
- Analyze manual testing processes and identify automation opportunities.
- Design and develop robust automated tests for various applications and databases.
- Maintain and extend the in-house automation framework and suites.
- Participate in troubleshooting and issue resolution with different teams.
Key Skills:
- 15+ years of experience in engineering and automation roles.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in designing and maintaining test automation solutions.
- Proficiency in testing desktop applications, APIs, and custom applications.
- Advanced knowledge of testing strategies and automation frameworks.
- 7+ years of experience in collaboration and negotiation with stakeholders.
- Experience with programming and scripting languages (Python, Bash, .NET, Java).
- SQL proficiency and understanding of relational databases.
- Experience with CI/CD automation.
- Excellent communication skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role : Principal Automation Engineer
Contract: Multiyear SOW
Location: Remote - must work PST hours. (Highly prefer candidates located in PST). Bonus: if the candidate is located near Rosemead and can come into office.
I have a sample resume for this role. Please let me know if any recruiters would like to review it.
Note: This is a Principal Automation role, so the candidate should have experience as an Architect, Lead, or Principal.
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Need candidates with 15+ years of Experience.
The candidate must have started their career as an engineer and then progressed, working with clients such as Accenture, Deloitte, and other
Qualifications
10+ years of hands-on experience designing, building and maintaining test automation solutions across multiple platforms using a variety of tools and frameworks.
Highly proficient in testing and building test automation for desktop applications, APIs, packaged applications, and custom applications
Advanced knowledge in testing strategies, test automation approaches, and how to design mature automation frameworks
7+ years of experience interfacing, collaborating, and negotiating with team members, all levels of management, different departments, and vendors to develop solutions, facilitate cooperation between different parties, and obtain stakeholder buy-in.
Recent hands on experience with the following:
One or more programming languages and scripting languages (Python, Bash, .NET, Java, etc.)
SQL (Understanding of relational databases, ability to programmatically read/write from the DB using medium complexity SQL queries, comfortable designing and updating relational database structures, etc.).
CI/CD setting up automation to run unattended both inside and outside of pipelines
Ability to comfortably work in both Linux and Windows environments.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate and articulate to stakeholders and management across multiple business functions.
Nice to have
Prior exposure to or experience automating tests using Tosca.
Experience in the utility industry or a similar type of environment.
Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
This person s time will be split between leading the automation day to day efforts and contributing hands on to build out the automation solutions. He/she will be the strongest technical member we have on the automation team and so they need to be able to solve challenging technical problems, design the overall solutions, and provide guidance to the other team members.
What this person will be doing (25% leading/guiding, 75% hands on)
Providing testing leadership and guidance by architecting testing solutions and helping to resolve complex technical problems and challenges.
Developing innovative approaches, techniques, and solutions in the areas of Quality Engineering, Automation, CI/CD, etc.
Lead multiple automation efforts and influencing others to adopt best practices when applicable.
Providing estimates, solution design, test design, and strategies for upcoming projects
Collaborating with cross-functional teams including application SMEs, domain architects, Project Managers, Cyber, Infrastructure and other subject matter experts. Requires coming up to speed rapidly with the SCE organization and key stakeholders.
Analyze how systems are being tested manually and identify opportunities to reduce that time and effort through test automation.
Design and develop robust automated tests for desktop applications, APIs, shell scripts, and databases to address business and technical use cases.
Maintain, support, and extend our in house automation framework and automation suites
Design comprehensive approaches and set up process standards for ensuring the quality, scalability, and maintainability of test automation tools and frameworks.
Participating in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards the root cause identification and resolution.