Senior Automation Engineer

Employment Type: Contract Location Type: Remote

Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as a Senior Automation Engineer, to help people succeed across the world. From dropping your kids off at childcare, getting something at home repaired, going to the gym or a fitness studio, to picking up your dry cleaning — our software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions help everyday life businesses to overcome obstacles and form great relationships with their customers.

You’ll join our Field Services team where we work with all types of businesses. Our product is essential to customers’ daily operations, supporting businesses—large and small—across the HVAC, plumbing, electrical and other industries with seamless solutions for customer management, scheduling, quoting, invoicing, payment and work tracking.

Job Description

Take a seat on the rocket ship and join us as a Senior Automation Engineer to help people succeed across the world. We’re a global team of builders, listeners and problem-solvers who are relentlessly focused on making life simple, so our customers can get back to growing their business, engaging consumers, and doing what they love. You'll work on our robust, cloud-hosted platform in Microsoft Azure, with a modern front-end built using Vue.js. As part of the FieldEge Saas Engineering team, you’ll contribute to the ongoing evolution of a scalable platform that powers everything from community centers and gyms to boutique wellness studios and national franchises.

Responsibilities

• Champion functional quality across teams by acting as the voice of QA, ensuring testing strategies align with business goals and user expectations.
• Design, document, and execute comprehensive test strategies and best practices, covering both manual and automated testing for web and mobile applications.
• Evaluate the ROI of automation and guide teams on when automation may be counterproductive, recommending improvements to functional testing approaches.
• Implement the TCOE Architect-approved reusable automation framework for regression and new functionality testing.
• Collaborate with product owners and developers to understand requirements and ensure test coverage for all functional scenarios.
• Conduct exploratory, smoke, sanity, regression, and user acceptance testing to ensure product quality.
• Recommend and implement solutions to reduce test execution time and optimize test maintenance.
• Help team members in automation frameworks, CI/CD processes, and manual testing methodologies.
• Ensure automation frameworks support scalability, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility compliance.
• Ensure scalability and maintainability of test suites, including regular updates and refactoring.
• Review and improve existing automation practices and guide teams on when to automate vs. when to test manually.
• Support delivery teams in setting up automation processes, PR reviews, and coding practices.
• Participate in defect triage meetings, root cause analysis, and provide detailed bug reports.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, with a balanced mix of manual/functional and automation testing.
• At least 5+ years of experience in Web Automation, including framework design and implementation.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across product, development, and QA teams.
• Strong experience in manual testing, including test case design, exploratory testing, regression, smoke, and user acceptance testing.
• Proficiency in C# for automation scripting.
• Experience in automated web testing using tools like Selenium, and familiarity with modern frameworks.
• Develop automated tests for modern front-end applications built in modern javascript frameworks.
• Solid understanding of functional testing methodologies, test planning, and test strategy creation.