Senior QA Automation Architect (AI-Driven)

Energy Jobline ZR; Berkeley Heights (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR is seeking an experienced Senior Automation Architect to design and lead enterprise test automation across UI, API, and middle/backend layers. You will mentor teams, drive tool integration, and champion AI-assisted development while upholding coding standards.

The role requires strong expertise in Playwright with TypeScript, Cucumber-based BDD, and CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience in .NET apps and mobile testing using Appium and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in building automated solutions spanning UI, middle tier, and backend services.
• Leads design and implementation of enterprise test automation frameworks and tool integration for Agile teams.
• Provide automation coaching, training and code reviews to engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and deliver modular, reusable automated testing solutions that meet client requirements.
• Lead workshops to gather requirements, document use cases, and propose automation strategies.
• Mentor teams, drive CI/CD integration of automation, and onboard new tools as needed.
• Develop and maintain API automation frameworks for authentication, requests/responses, and schema validation.
• Enable AI-assisted development while ensuring code quality, security, and enterprise standards.
• Foster continuous quality engineering practices across Agile teams.

Skills

TypeScript coding

Automation framework design

AI-assisted development tools

Test automation leadership

API automation

Mobile testing

Debugging & code review

UI & backend automation

CI/CD integration

BDD (Cucumber)

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

CI/CD

Cucumber

.NET Core/.NET Framework

Rest Assured/RestSharp

AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini)

Appium

Sauce Labs/Perfecto/BrowserStack

Applitools/Jira integrations (AssertThat BDD, Zephyr, Xray)

Service Virtualization

Job description

Energy Jobline ZR is seeking an experienced Senior Automation Architect to design and lead enterprise test automation across UI, API, and middle/backend layers. You will mentor teams, drive tool integration, and champion AI-assisted development while upholding coding standards.

The role requires strong expertise in Playwright with TypeScript, Cucumber-based BDD, and CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience in .NET apps and mobile testing using Appium and cloud platforms.