Automation Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 59,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Innovation Inc in Saint Paul, MN is hiring an Automation Engineer who takes ownership of features and collaborates across teams. The role offers a clear path forward, a hands-on environment, and responsibilities spanning feature delivery, bug reproduction, and pipeline automation.

You will sketch architecture ideas, defend them in reviews, and build robust solutions while mentoring juniors. If you thrive on ownership and practical, high-impact work, apply now.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to prioritize when everything is marked urgent.
• Owner mindset with willingness to defend and adapt viewpoints.
• Solid Postman grounding; familiarity with test management tooling (qTest).
• Learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Deliver junior-quality features within the $59,000 - $87,000 Automation Engineer mandate.
• Reproduce the client-centric bug from the St. Paul field report, then make it impossible again.
• Sketch the Emotional Intelligence architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing.
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles.
• Translate quality-obsessed business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.
• Tune TDD caching so Retail Innovation Inc survives the St. Paul launch spike on the same hardware.
• Mentor the junior cohort through their first real Karate on-call at Retail Innovation Inc.
• Pair-program tricky Attention to Detail edge cases with engineers across St. Paul, MN

Skills

Analytical thinking

Prioritization

Ownership mindset

Active learning

Postman

Tools

Postman

qTest

Job description

Behind every values-led technology feature is an Automation Engineer who sweated the edge cases, and Retail Innovation Inc is hiring more of them. A $59,000 - $87,000 Automation Engineer role for a self-starter who wants ownership, collaboration, and a genuine path forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver junior-quality features within the $59,000 - $87,000 Automation Engineer mandate
• Reproduce the client-centric bug from the St. Paul field report, then make it impossible again
• Sketch the Emotional Intelligence architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles
• Translate quality-obsessed business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Tune TDD caching so Retail Innovation Inc survives the St. Paul launch spike on the same hardware
• Mentor the junior cohort through their first real Karate on-call at Retail Innovation Inc
• Pair-program tricky Attention to Detail edge cases with engineers across St. Paul, MN

What You'll Bring

• A MN work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• A point of view, held loosely and defended well
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
• Solid Postman grounding, plus qTest you can pick up on the fly
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Proven Karate results, ideally seasoned in St. Paul, MN
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements

Retail Innovation Inc blends SQL and Change Management into technology products that feel, in the client-focused words of its St. Paul, MN founders, inevitable. You set the boundaries of your full-time schedule and we respect them without the side-eye.

Money matters, so we lead with $59,000 - $87,000; then come the wellness perks, the Attention to Detail training, and hours you actually control.

This one is current, freshly dated, and very much hiring.