Automation Engineer

Filetwigbay; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 64,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness budget

Retirement matching

Clear milestones for career growth

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz in Overland Park, KS is seeking a mid-level Automation Engineer to drive test automation initiatives and improve system reliability. You’ll own RestAssured migrations, catch Jest regressions in staging, and collaborate with leadership to reduce technical debt.

Join a team that values practical automation, clear milestones, and career growth. We offer a strong salary range, wellness budget, and retirement matching as you progress to the next mid-level level in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Rest-Assured migration experience to replace legacy stack.
• Experience catching Jest regressions in staging before release.
• Strong Postman skills for API testing in freelance contexts.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and communicate with leadership.
• Comfort presenting to mid-level leadership and teammates.

Responsibilities

• Lead the RestAssured migration that retires the legacy stack.
• Catch Jest regressions in staging before they reach customers in Overland Park.
• Reverse-engineer and improve the Strategic Planning format inherited and undocumented.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using RestAssured.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.

Skills

Rest-Assured

Jest

Postman

Stakeholder management

Presentation to leadership

Tools

RestAssured

Jest

Postman

Job description

The right Automation Engineer sees a flaky test not as noise but as a clue, and Mercedes-Benz in Overland Park, KS has clues worth chasing. Step into an Automation Engineer position at Mercedes-Benz where $64,000 - $90,000, team support, and career growth come standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the RestAssured migration that finally retires Mercedes-Benz's people-first legacy stack
• Catch the candidly-kind Jest regression in staging before it ever reaches Overland Park customers
• Reverse-engineer the detail-focused Strategic Planning format Mercedes-Benz inherited and never documented
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using RestAssured
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time

What You'll Bring

• Practical Postman skills sharpened in a freelance setting
• Enough Stakeholder Management to be dangerous, enough Jest to be trusted
• At least 5 years of standing behind your own estimates
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to mid-level leadership

Mercedes-Benz was founded in Overland Park, KS on the idea that technology should be powerful yet refreshingly genuinely-flexible. Our team in KS keeps a running list of what we'd do differently, and we actually act on it.

We provide $64,000 - $90,000, a wellness budget, retirement matching, and clear milestones for moving up to the next mid-level.

Freshly verified active, this mid-level Automation Engineer position is accepting candidates now.

Bring 3 of grit or a fresh perspective; either way, this Automation Engineer role wants you.