Automation Test Engineer - API & UI (CI/CD)

Groupe Kardol; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k)

Job summary

Groupe Kardol in Austin, TX, is seeking a Customer Support Automation SDET to design, build, and scale automation frameworks that improve release quality, engineering productivity, and service reliability across our customer support platforms.

You will own UI automation, validate backend APIs, integrate tests into CI/CD, and collaborate with engineers, PMs, and QE to define test strategy early in the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4-7 years of experience in test automation, quality engineering, SDET, software engineering, or related areas with strong automation ownership.
• Strong programming / scripting skills in Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
• Strong experience testing backend APIs and services, including request/response validation, integration validation, and service-level regression coverage.
• Strong experience building or maintaining UI automation for modern web applications and validating front-end-to-backend integration flows.
• Experience developing automation frameworks and integrating them into CI/CD and release workflows.
• Strong understanding of integration testing, regression strategy, smoke coverage, and release validation approaches.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting capability across distributed systems, services, and UI/API interactions.
• Experience working in Agile development environments with Git-based workflows, code reviews, and cross-functional engineering collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, regression, and smoke testing.
• Build automated validation coverage for backend services, APIs, and end-to-end workflows that support CS Tech experiences.
• Own critical-path UI automation for key agent and support workflows, while keeping most of the coverage at the API and integration layers for speed, maintainability, and signal quality.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and release quality gates to improve deployment safety and release confidence.
• Partner with software engineers, product managers, QE, and platform teams to define practical test strategy early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Debug failures and product issues across UI interactions, network calls, APIs, integration points, and dependent services.
• Improve test reliability, suite execution time, and automation through strong engineering practices and reusable tooling.
• Support release validation, defect prevention, and root-cause analysis for complex quality and production issues.

Skills

Test automation

API testing

CI/CD

Automation frameworks

Agile / Git

Programming languages

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Groupe Kardol in Austin, TX, is seeking a Customer Support Automation SDET to design, build, and scale automation frameworks that improve release quality, engineering productivity, and service reliability across our customer support platforms.

You will own UI automation, validate backend APIs, integrate tests into CI/CD, and collaborate with engineers, PMs, and QE to define test strategy early in the lifecycle.