Senior QA Automation & Test Infra Engineer

Vailsys; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

Company-paid life insurance

401(k) with company match

35 days PTO

Annual bonus program

Maternity/paternity leave

Relocation allowance

Employee referral bonus

Gym membership

Development stipend

Job summary

Vail is seeking a QA Automation Lead to help build and maintain robust testing frameworks and validate real-world signaling flows across web and voice platforms. You will design scalable automation for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing, collaborating with software, DevOps, and product teams to raise quality and delivery velocity.

The role emphasizes mentoring, improving CI/CD pipelines, and driving automation coverage while working in a hybrid environment with offices

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong programming experience in one or more listed languages.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks for testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks that improve reliability, maintainability, and engineering efficiency across multiple products.
• Build and maintain automation for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing across distributed applications, APIs, and telecommunications platforms.
• Enhance internal automation tools, testing libraries, and CI/CD workflows that improve quality, reduce manual effort, and accelerate software delivery.
• Design and optimize automated test execution within Jenkins and containerized environments, ensuring dependable validation throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Investigate failures across applications, services, databases, and infrastructure to identify root causes and improve automation resiliency.
• Develop and execute performance, load, and stress testing strategies that model production workloads and identify bottlenecks before release.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, and Operations to improve system quality and release readiness.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and automation design discussions while promoting best practices across QA.
• Lead initiatives to expand automation coverage and improve framework architecture.

Skills

Ruby

Java

C#/.NET

C++

Perl

Python

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

JUnit

TestNG

PyTest

RSpec

Selenium

Cucumber

Job description

Vail is seeking a QA Automation Lead to help build and maintain robust testing frameworks and validate real-world signaling flows across web and voice platforms. You will design scalable automation for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing, collaborating with software, DevOps, and product teams to raise quality and delivery velocity.

The role emphasizes mentoring, improving CI/CD pipelines, and driving automation coverage while working in a hybrid environment with offices