Senior AI-Driven Test Automation Engineer

Acuity; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Inc. is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering team working with web, mobile, embedded and AI-enabled systems.

In this senior role, you will bring deep technical experience and strong leadership behaviours to design and deliver automated test solutions that improve confidence, reliability and speed across products. You will combine hands-on test automation expertise with sound engineering judgment and practical experience of

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience in test automation and quality engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium, Appium, Postman/Newman or comparable API, web and mobile testing tools.
• Experience using test management tools to organise test cases, plan and track execution, maintain requirements traceability, record evidence, report quality status and support defect lifecycle management.
• Experience testing software, firmware, embedded, IoT or connected products and translating complex requirements into structured, risk-based test solutions.
• Deep knowledge of debugging, fault isolation, defect investigation and root-cause analysis, with the ability to communicate complex findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with source control, code review, CI/CD pipelines and collaborative engineering workflows, including the improvement of test reliability, traceability and coverage.
• Practical understanding of AI-assisted engineering workflows, including how to create, review and validate AI-generated code, tests, analysis and documentation responsibly.
• Strong leadership behaviours, critical thinking and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions, mentor colleagues, work within an established technical direction and drive continuous improvement through individual contribution.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute and maintain scalable automated test solutions for web, mobile, firmware, embedded and connected-system applications.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools across requirements analysis, test design, automation-code development, test-data generation, log analysis, defect triage, documentation and knowledge discovery, while independently validating every output.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Squad Leads, architects, product managers, QA engineers and hardware, firmware and software developers to translate customer, business and technical requirements into comprehensive test strategies, plans, cases and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute senior technical expertise to test framework architecture, coding standards, peer reviews and risk-based test coverage, identifying critical workflows, edge cases and failure scenarios.
• Develop and review application and automation code using relevant technologies such as C#, Python, Selenium, Git, SQL, Node.js, NuGet, Azure and React.
• Analyse test outcomes, logs and system behaviour to isolate failures and drive root-cause investigations with cross-functional engineering teams; document and track defects with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence.
• Design custom test environments using products, off-the-shelf equipment, engineering tools and purpose-built hardware, and support the recreation and resolution of complex customer site and field issues.
• Help continuously improve automated testing within CI/CD pipelines, including execution reliability, reporting, traceability, quality gates, framework reusability and test efficiency.
• Participate actively in Agile and scaled planning activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and PI Planning within a SAFe environment, contributing quality, dependency, risk and test-readiness perspectives.
• Demonstrate leadership through technical influence, dependable delivery, mentoring and knowledge sharing; evaluate emerging AI and test technologies and champion responsible practices for security, confidentiality, data protection and intellectual property.

Skills

Selenium

Appium

API testing

Git

SQL

Node.js

Azure

React

Python

C#

CI/CD

Test automation

QA tooling

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft Copilot

AI-assisted testing

Job description

Acuity Inc. is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering team working with web, mobile, embedded and AI-enabled systems.

In this senior role, you will bring deep technical experience and strong leadership behaviours to design and deliver automated test solutions that improve confidence, reliability and speed across products. You will combine hands-on test automation expertise with sound engineering judgment and practical experience of