Senior Test Automation Engineer

Akoya; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Akoya is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test in New York, NY. You will be a hands-on senior engineer mentoring a small team, shaping test automation strategy, and partnering with engineering and product to embed quality from the start.

You will write code, build test infrastructure, and influence reliability at scale for a fintech-focused product suite. The role emphasizes shifting left on quality and driving meaningful quality signals across CI/CD and production.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software testing or quality engineering, with at least 2+ years in a technical lead or senior IC capacity.
• Deep proficiency with Cypress, Node.js, Docker, Bitbucket Pipelines, Postman, WireMock, K8s, and AWS.
• Experience with load/performance testing - k6, Gatling, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Shift Left on Quality: Partner with engineers and product managers early in the development cycle to define testability requirements, acceptance criteria, and risk-based test strategies before a line of code is written.
• Build and Maintain Test Automation: Build, extend, and help maintain the frameworks, tooling, and CI integration the team's testing runs on - taking ownership of key areas and evolving them within the technical direction set with our Principal SET.
• Test Across the Spectrum: Design and execute functional, integration, regression, and load/performance test automation, using k6 or Gatling for performance and Cypress/Postman for functional and API coverage, so we catch issues at the right layer.
• Innovate on Process: Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the testing lifecycle. Champion adaptive QA practices that scale with rapid iteration without slowing down delivery.
• Elevate the Team: Be a senior technical voice and mentor for QA engineers. Share your expertise generously, raise the quality of the work around you, and contribute to a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Drive Metrics That Matter: Partner with the engineering lead to define and track meaningful quality signals - automation coverage, test reliability, bug escape rates, and feedback loop speed - and use data to continuously improve.
• Align with Business Goals: Build testing practices that support compliance, security, and reliability standards while staying tightly aligned with Akoya's product and engineering objectives.

Skills

Cypress

Node.js

Docker

Bitbucket Pipelines

Postman

WireMock

K8s

AWS

Load testing

Tools

k6

Gatling

Job description

Akoya is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test in New York, NY. You will be a hands-on senior engineer mentoring a small team, shaping test automation strategy, and partnering with engineering and product to embed quality from the start.

You will write code, build test infrastructure, and influence reliability at scale for a fintech-focused product suite. The role emphasizes shifting left on quality and driving meaningful quality signals across CI/CD and production.