Automation Engineer - Lead Innovation Projects

Energy Innovation Corp; Jackson (MS); Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

McKinsey & Company in Jackson, MS seeks an Automation Engineer to own Innovation projects end-to-end, delivering robust test automation, performance tuning, and scalable deployments. You will collaborate with a remote-friendly team to drive high-quality outcomes and shield clients from production risks.

The role requires 4+ years of delivering results, strong communication, and the ability to translate BDD complexity for non-technical audiences while maintaining candor and integrity in a

Qualifications

• 4+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• Experience translating BDD complexity for a non-technical audience.
• Comfortable arguing a point while staying professional and respectful.
• Accountability in an internship-like role with tangible outcomes.
• Strong communication skills to steer technology conversations toward a decision.

Responsibilities

• Trace an empathy-led technology bug across three Jest services to the one bad line.
• Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real Stakeholder Management on-call.
• Lead technical design reviews for mid-level technology initiatives.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments.
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence.
• Untangle Gatling dependency knots that have slowed Jackson releases.
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale.

Skills

Stakeholder management

BDD clarity

Test automation

Performance optimization

Tools

Jest

Gatling

Xray

Job description

McKinsey & Company in Jackson, MS seeks an Automation Engineer to own Innovation projects end-to-end, delivering robust test automation, performance tuning, and scalable deployments. You will collaborate with a remote-friendly team to drive high-quality outcomes and shield clients from production risks.

The role requires 4+ years of delivering results, strong communication, and the ability to translate BDD complexity for non-technical audiences while maintaining candor and integrity in a