Senior Automation Engineer - Remote for SaMD Diagnostics

Veracyte; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Veracyte seeks a Senior Software Test Automation Engineer to design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for SaMD software. You will develop automated tests for REST APIs, microservices, and cloud services, integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while ensuring quality.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product, and QA to raise testability and maintain robust automated tests across distributed systems and containers, contributing to patient-focused

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6–7 years of experience in software quality engineering, software development, or test automation engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing automation solutions using C#, Java, Python, TypeScript, or comparable programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining test automation frameworks and reusable testing tools.
• Proven experience testing enterprise-scale web applications, REST APIs, backend services, microservices, integrations, and cloud-native systems.
• Strong software development skills, including object-oriented design, modular architectures, debugging, code reviews, version control, and automated quality practices.
• Experience automating APIs, databases, distributed systems, and backend services.
• Experience implementing automated testing within CI/CD platforms.
• Hands-on experience testing cloud-native applications in containerized and cloud environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written communication, collaboration, and technical documentation abilities.
• Experience working effectively in Agile software development environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks, libraries, tools, and reusable components using modern software engineering practices.
• Develop and maintain automated tests for REST APIs, backend services, microservices, integrations, databases, business workflows, and end-to-end user scenarios.
• Define and implement automation approaches spanning component, contract, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Integrate automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to provide rapid and actionable feedback.
• Improve the reliability, maintainability, scalability, and diagnostic value of automated test suites.
• Monitor and continuously improve test health by addressing flaky tests, unstable environments, coverage gaps, and execution inefficiencies.
• Develop tooling and utilities for test data management, service virtualization, mocks, simulators, fixtures, and environment management.
• Investigate automation and product issues across applications, APIs, databases, cloud services, containerized environments, integrations, and deployment pipelines.
• Partner closely with software engineers to improve application testability and establish effective automated test strategies.
• Create reusable frameworks, documentation, examples, and best practices that enable product teams to develop and maintain their own automated tests.
• Participate in design and code reviews with a focus on quality, reliability, maintainability, and testability.
• Establish and promote standards for automation architecture, reporting, diagnostics, and framework design.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including AI-assisted capabilities, to enhance test automation efficiency and coverage.
• Collaborate with Software Verification and Quality teams to support regulated verification activities and generate appropriate test evidence when required.
• Perform exploratory or manual testing when it provides greater value or supports product risk assessment.

Skills

C#

Java

Python

TypeScript

Test automation

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

.NET ecosystem

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Veracyte seeks a Senior Software Test Automation Engineer to design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for SaMD software. You will develop automated tests for REST APIs, microservices, and cloud services, integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while ensuring quality.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product, and QA to raise testability and maintain robust automated tests across distributed systems and containers, contributing to patient-focused