QA Automation Engineer

Centex Tech; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Centex Technologies is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to design and maintain automated quality-engineering solutions that deliver fast, reliable evidence of product readiness across the delivery pipeline. The role focuses on building maintainable automation across UI, API, integration, data, contract, and performance layers, and on integrating tests into CI/CD with robust diagnostics.

You will collaborate with developers, analysts, UX, security, and DevOps to raise test quality and acceptance

Qualifications

• Five or more years of software quality engineering or test automation experience.
• Strong programming or scripting capability and hands-on experience building maintainable UI, API, integration, or data-test automation.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD and diagnosing failures across application, test, data, and environment boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design maintainable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, data, contract, performance, and other test layers.
• Develop automated tests with clear assertions, reusable components, controlled data, and actionable failure diagnostics.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD with triggers, parallelization, reporting, retry controls, and quality gates.
• Investigate failures, distinguish product defects from test or environment issues, and drive root-cause correction.
• Partner with developers, analysts, UX, security, and DevOps to improve testability and acceptance criteria early.
• Review automation code, mentor contributors, and establish coding, data, environment, and evidence standards.

Skills

Automation framework design

UI automation

API automation

CI/CD integration

Debugging & root cause analysis

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Job description

Centex Technologies is hiring a QA Automation Engineer to design and maintain automated quality-engineering solutions that provide fast, reliable evidence of product readiness across the delivery pipeline. This opportunity is well suited to an experienced professional who enjoys owning difficult work, creating clarity, and collaborating across technical, program, and customer teams.

What You'll Do

• Design maintainable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, data, contract, performance, and other appropriate test layers.
• Develop automated tests with clear assertions, reusable components, controlled data, and actionable failure diagnostics.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD with effective triggers, parallelization, reporting, retry controls, and quality gates.
• Investigate failures, distinguish product defects from test or environment issues, and drive root-cause correction.
• Partner with developers, analysts, UX, security, and DevOps to improve testability and acceptance criteria early.
• Review automation code, mentor contributors, and establish coding, data, environment, and evidence standards.

Why Join Centex Technologies

• Join an established small business with more than 20 years of experience supporting customers and solving complex technology and mission needs.
• Work remotely within the United States while contributing to meaningful customer outcomes.
• Take ownership of complex work and collaborate directly with experienced technical and program professionals.

Work Arrangement

This is a remote U.S. position. Occasional travel or work outside normal hours may be required based on customer and program needs.

Background and Clearance

Employment is subject to required background screening. Some assignments may require the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust determination or security clearance.

Centex Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Centex Technologies provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process and employment.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent directly relevant experience.
• Five or more years of software quality engineering or test automation experience.
• Strong programming or scripting capability and hands-on experience building maintainable UI, API, integration, or data-test automation.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD and diagnosing failures across application, test, data, and environment boundaries.

Preferred

• Experience supporting federal, defense, regulated, or mission-critical software.
• Experience with accessibility, performance, security, mobile, contract, or cloud-native testing.
• ISTQB, cloud, security, Agile, or other relevant certification.