Senior End-to-End QA Engineer — Automation & CI/CD

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 119,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay is seeking a Senior End-to-End Quality Engineer to validate complex business workflows across web apps, APIs, and backend services. You will design scalable automation frameworks, improve release quality, and increase deployment confidence for customer-facing platforms, including AI-powered solutions.

The role emphasizes automation across UI, API, integration, regression, and smoke testing, with collaboration across Software Engineering, Product, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and QE

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, SDET, or Software Engineering with strong automation ownership.
• Strong programming experience in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or similar languages.
• Strong experience in API automation, integration testing, backend validation, and service‑level regression testing.
• Experience building scalable UI automation for modern web applications.
• Experience developing automation frameworks and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of regression testing, smoke testing, integration testing, release validation, and end‑to‑end quality engineering.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems, APIs, databases, UI, and integration layers.
• Experience working in Agile environments with Git‑based development workflows and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Build automation coverage for backend services, enterprise APIs, and cross‑platform integration workflows.
• Validate critical customer support journeys across multiple systems, including web applications, backend services, contact center platforms, and third‑party integrations.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and release quality gates to improve deployment confidence.
• Lead end‑to‑end release validation for large‑scale platform migrations and enterprise initiatives.
• Partner with Software Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Platform, and QE teams to define test strategies early in the development lifecycle.
• Perform root cause analysis for production issues and troubleshoot failures across UI, APIs, services, integrations, and data layers.
• Improve automation reliability, execution time, maintainability, and overall engineering efficiency through reusable frameworks and tooling.
• Support production deployments, hypercare, defect prevention, and release readiness activities.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in quality engineering practices, automation strategy, and operational excellence.

Job description

eBay is seeking a Senior End-to-End Quality Engineer to validate complex business workflows across web apps, APIs, and backend services. You will design scalable automation frameworks, improve release quality, and increase deployment confidence for customer-facing platforms, including AI-powered solutions.

The role emphasizes automation across UI, API, integration, regression, and smoke testing, with collaboration across Software Engineering, Product, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and QE