Automation Engineer

PepsiCo; Hampton (VA); In loco; USD 97.000 - 136.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

PepsiCo Inc. in Hampton, VA seeks an Automation Engineer to back a RestAssured-heavy backend and translate TestComplete experience into a senior role. You will own API growth, optimize performance, and mentor teammates while shaping a reliable, scalable codebase.

You will collaborate across teams to reduce technical debt, present data-driven recommendations, and drive impactful improvements with a focus on quality and maintainability.

Competenze

• Experience writing efficient SQL queries and data access patterns.
• Ability to translate data into actionable decisions for stakeholders.
• Strong communication and analytical thinking.

Mansioni

• Ship RestAssured rewrite to reduce PepsiCo's technical debt.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core PepsiCo products.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce debt over time.
• Challenge slow patterns and propose cleaner approaches.
• Deliver performance wins measurable by VA retention metrics.
• Explain tradeoffs to technology stakeholders and execs.

Conoscenze

SQL proficiency

Storytelling instincts

Strumenti

Karate

Xray

Robot Framework

Descrizione del lavoro

Come build the backend that powers our feedback-driven products, writing RestAssured that holds up under serious load. Picture $97,000 - $136,000, a contract cadence, and 5 years of TestComplete translating into a senior seat you actually steer at PepsiCo.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship the RestAssured oddball-friendly rewrite that pays down years of PepsiCo technical debt
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core PepsiCo products
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Question the slow-to-anger Karate pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
• Land RestAssured performance wins PepsiCo can measure in VA retention numbers
• Walk technology stakeholders through Accountability tradeoffs in language PepsiCo execs grasp
• Spot the quick-to-ship Robot Framework anti-pattern in review before it spreads through PepsiCo

What You'll Bring

• A knack for SQL that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• Familiarity with Xray and related tools or frameworks
• Demonstrated Karate expertise in a fast-moving technology environment
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision
• Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through

Our team at PepsiCo is mentorship-focused, collaborative, and proud to call Hampton, VA home. Trust is the default setting at PepsiCo; you have to actively spend it to lose it.

Your compensation opens at $97,000 - $136,000, your mentor is waiting, your benefits are ready, and your hours are yours to flex.

Last touched this morning, the Automation Engineer listing remains active and unfilled.