Automation Engineer

Merck; Harrisonburg (VA); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Mentorship

Hybrid work arrangement

Paid growth time

Job summary

Merck in Harrisonburg, VA is recruiting an Automation Engineer who champions high-performance test automation with JMeter and Selenium Grid. The role combines bug triage, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning to reduce latency on the user path.

The position offers a $94,000-$135,000 annual salary with a hybrid work model, mentorship, health coverage, and paid growth time. We’re reviewing candidates now for immediate fit in Harrisonburg.

Qualifications

• Customer-focused mindset with strong interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with Cross-Functional Collaboration and related tools or frameworks.
• Experience presenting to senior leadership.
• Ability to translate Cross-Functional Collaboration complexity for a non-technical audience.
• Meticulous attention to detail across every deliverable.
• Fluency with Cross-Functional Collaboration and Gatling, with informed opinions.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Read the Selenium Grid stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root.
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Merck users feel every click.
• Guard codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch.
• Keep the Empathy service humming through Harrisonburg's holiday traffic surge.
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team.
• Mentor newer senior hires on how Merck wires Empathy together.

Skills

Customer-focused

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Senior leadership presentation

Attention to detail

Gatling

Selenium Grid debugging

Tools

Selenium Grid

JMeter

Job description

We ship fast and break very little, and we want an Automation Engineer who shares that obsession with JMeter. This is where 7 years becomes $94,000 - $135,000, where hybrid hours meet real technology ownership, and where Merck bets on you.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Read the Selenium Grid stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Merck users feel every click
• Guard the Self-Motivation codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch
• Keep the technology Empathy service humming through Harrisonburg's holiday traffic surge
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Mentor newer senior hires on how Merck actually wires Empathy together

What You'll Bring

• Customer-focused outlook with strong interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with Cross-Functional Collaboration and related tools or frameworks
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to senior leadership
• Experience translating Cross-Functional Collaboration complexity for a non-technical audienceMeticulous attention to detail across every deliverable
• Fluency across Cross-Functional Collaboration and Gatling, with strong opinions on both

Anchored in Harrisonburg, VA, Merck designs the kind of data-honest systems that technology teams quietly depend on every single day. We build psychological safety the boring way: by actually following through on what we say.

The number is $94,000 - $135,000; the rest is mentorship, health coverage, paid growth time, and a hybrid arrangement that respects your evenings.

This Harrisonburg, VA opening is current, active, and reviewing folks now.

We open the Automation Engineer role today and close it once we meet the right person, so hurry.