Senior QA Automation Architect — Remote

Smart Tech Skills LLC; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote position

Job summary

Smart Tech Skills LLC in the United States is seeking a senior-level QA Automation Engineer/Developer to provide technical leadership for enterprise test automation initiatives supporting METS and SMRT DevOps teams.

This role will lead automation architecture, framework modernization, CI/CD integration, automated testing strategy, and automation best practices for mission‑critical healthcare eligibility systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, developing, and executing automated testing solutions.
• 5+ years of experience with Java, Selenium, and test automation framework development.
• 5+ years designing reusable automation frameworks using OO design principles.
• 3+ years integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Jenkins or similar automation orchestration tools.
• 5+ years of SQL development and database validation experience.
• Experience automating enterprise-scale applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, modernize, and maintain enterprise automation frameworks.
• Establish automation architecture standards, coding standards, and automation best practices.
• Lead framework modernization efforts to improve scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Develop and maintain UI, API, regression, integration, and database validation automation suites.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, DevOps engineers, and QA teams.
• Develop reusable automation components and testing utilities.
• Perform SQL validation and database testing.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and technical design sessions.
• Conduct automation code reviews and mentor QA automation engineers.
• Evaluate and recommend new automation technologies and tools.
• Support continuous testing and software quality initiatives.

Skills

Automation architecture

Java

Selenium WebDriver

CI/CD

Jenkins

REST API Automation

SQL

Test automation framework development

OO design

Mentoring

Tools

IBM ETM

IBM QM

IBM CLM

Jenkins

Job description

Smart Tech Skills LLC in the United States is seeking a senior-level QA Automation Engineer/Developer to provide technical leadership for enterprise test automation initiatives supporting METS and SMRT DevOps teams.

This role will lead automation architecture, framework modernization, CI/CD integration, automated testing strategy, and automation best practices for mission‑critical healthcare eligibility systems.