Senior Test Automation Engineer

First Citizens Bank; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a skilled test automation engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated QA assets that follow the bank's Quality Assurance Center of Excellence standards. The role bridges manual QA and development to deliver reliable, production-grade automation assets.

Responsibilities include building robust automation scripts with Java or C#, integrating Selenium for web UI testing and Appium for native mobile testing, plus API and data layer validations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with 6 years in systems engineer/scientist programming.
• Experience with mobile testing on iOS and Android is required.
• Strong knowledge of OOPS concepts and mobile automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical support and service for installation and testing of software upgrades and patches.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks and CI/CD integrations.
• Develop and maintain API test automation using Rest Assured and validate RESTful services.
• Create and run BDD-style scenarios with Cucumber to align QA with development and business teams.
• Collaborate with QA, development, and business stakeholders to define testing strategies and quality gates.
• Champion shift-left quality principles and test data management across enterprise applications.

Skills

Selenium WebDriver

Appium

Java

Python

BDD/Gherkins

API Testing

Jira

Git

Database Validation

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Appium

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a skilled test automation engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated QA assets that follow the bank's Quality Assurance Center of Excellence standards. The role bridges manual QA and development to deliver reliable, production-grade automation assets.

Responsibilities include building robust automation scripts with Java or C#, integrating Selenium for web UI testing and Appium for native mobile testing, plus API and data layer validations.