Senior QA Automation Engineer

Fieldwire by Hilti; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Fieldwire is on the lookout for a Senior QA Automation Engineer with extensive experience in automation testing to join their dynamic QA team. This role focuses on enhancing the quality and reliability of Fieldwire's software using modern testing tools like Playwright and Cypress, contributing to a critical continuous improvement process in software development. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in automation engineering, excellent problem-solving skills, and a passion for mentoring junior engineers.

Benefits

Corporate bonus up to 20%

Remote work flexibility

Competitive salary package

Qualifications

• Experience with Playwright or Cypress for test automation.
• Proficient in Javascript/Typescript.
• Experience leading QA teams and mentoring.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain automated tests for UI functionality.
• Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor junior QA engineers on best practices.

Skills

Javascript

Typescript

Automation Engineering

CI/CD Tools

Mentoring

Education

5+ years of experience in automation engineering

Tools

AWS CodeBuild

Cypress

Playwright

Jenkins

Job description

Who we’re looking for

Fieldwire, a SaaS based software service provider for construction management, is looking for an experienced senior automation engineer for our Frontend platform to join our talented QA team. Quality and availability of our platform is of utmost importance to Fieldwire and its customers, QA plays a critical role in ensuring we maintain the high-quality bar our customers have to expect from us. Through automation, our goal is to build a continuous feedback loop to improve our software development lifecycle. Our applications are built using modern and reliable tools, including Typescript, Angular, and Bootstrap and are designed for simplicity, reliability and performance.

The web team at Fieldwire builds and maintains the web app used by our customers. Our engineering teams are multi-functional and collaborate closely with product and design. Fieldwire's apps are mission critical for the construction teams that use Fieldwire every day to save time and money on the jobsite.

What you’ll be doing

You will join the automation team on the web platform and create long-lasting foundations at Fieldwire. You will be working directly with the various front-end teams to maintain and increase our automation footprint, improve and strengthen our automation frameworks, and leading automation initiatives for the QA and web teams.

A day in the life of a Senior QA Automation Engineer will be frequently solving these types of problems:

• Create, execute, and maintain automated tests to validate UI functionality
• Integrate automated testing into our CI/CD pipelines to deliver fast feedback
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks
• Work closely with our manual QA testers to identify areas that need automated test coverage
• Mentor and guide junior QA engineers on best practices in automation and test design
• Continuously improve test automation processes, tools, and frameworks to increase efficiency and reliability
• Work with feature teams to deliver test results as part of the release sign off process

At Fieldwire, we’re looking for our next Senior QA Automation Engineer to have the following skills and experiences:

• 5+ years of experience working as an automation engineer (QA Automation or SDET)
• 4+ years of contributing test automation for the web (Playwright, Cypress, etc.)
• Strong proficiency in Typescript and/or JavaScript
• Experience building scalable and resilient tests utilizing both APIs and UI automation
• Experience with CI/CD tools like CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild or Jenkins
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code and establish best practices
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience mentoring or leading junior QA automation engineers

And if you have any of the following, we REALLY want you to apply today!

• Experience with cloud-based CI/CD platforms like AWS CodeBuild
• Experience with performance testing (Artillery, k6, Locust, etc)
• Experience building backend automation frameworks from scratch

Why Fieldwire?

Fieldwire is a construction field management software, used on over 1M+ projects worldwide. We’re obsessed with improving the way teams work together. We’re building a Field Management Platform dedicated to construction teams — providing operational excellence for one of the world’s largest global industries -- $10 Trillion/year. We’re delivering a superior, easy-to-use product that’s driven by the voice of our customers.

Fieldwire solves the problem of access to information and coordination of labor at a large scale for some of the largest projects in the world. The Fieldwire mobile app has a nearly five-star rating based on thousands of customer reviews. Fieldwire was venture backed by top venture capitalists and has already transformed the way thousands of companies worldwide are working together. Fieldwire was acquired by Hilti for $300M in November 2021.

Compensation

The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows: $150,000-$175,000.

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors such as your skills, qualifications and experience. In addition to the salary you may be eligible for a corporate bonus which can range up to 20%.

Where is the job located?

This role is fully remote within the US or in the beautiful city of San Francisco, CA. Our office is located right off of Embarcadero Bart station. Easily accessible by all forms of public transportation.

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Fieldwire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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