SQA Automation Lead — C#/Playwright & CI/CD Expert

Versant Health, Inc.; City of Troy (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

Versant Health is seeking a Senior SQA Automation Engineer Lead to define and execute our automation strategy for UI, API, and database validation. You will build robust frameworks with C#, Playwright, SpecFlow, and modern tooling, integrating tests into CI/CD with TeamCity.

Apply your deep knowledge of QA, coding, and analytics to raise product quality in a HIPAA‑compliant vision care environment. Join a collaborative team focused on high‑quality software delivery and streamlined testing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Advanced degrees such as an MBA or MS in Information Science are preferred but not required.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright automation in C#.
• Strong understanding of selectors, waits, test stability, screenshots, and reporting.
• Experience with SpecFlow and Gherkin for BDD.
• Experience automating Angular or similar reactive web applications.
• Experience with .NET unit testing frameworks (NUnit, xUnit, or MSTest).
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting automation in TeamCity.
• Strong understanding of how automation integrates into CI pipelines.
• Proficiency with Git (clone, pull, push, merge, conflict resolution).
• Skilled with Visual Studio and Chrome DevTools for debugging.
• Working knowledge of PowerShell for automation and CI tasks.

Responsibilities

• Develop the overall automation test strategy and resource plans.
• Build, enhance, and maintain automated tests as new features are introduced.
• Create reusable components to improve maintainability, reusability, and test stability.
• Track and report key testing metrics at the project and program level.
• Define automation roadmaps, KPIs, and best practices.
• Analyze business requirements, functional specs, and user stories to create test cases.
• Write test scripts—manual and automated—for UI, API, and database validation.
• Develop automation scripts for integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Execute both manual and automated test suites.
• Maintain regression test suites and ensure they remain updated and stable.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and QA team members to refine testable requirements.
• Recommend improvements to existing standards, tools, and QA processes.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites using C# and Playwright.
• Build and extend BDD automation using SpecFlow and Gherkin.
• Write and maintain unit tests using NUnit, xUnit, or MSTest.
• Automate and debug UI tests for Angular or other reactive frameworks.
• Integrate automation suites into TeamCity CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers on feature requirements and test coverage.
• Use Git and Bitbucket for branching, merging, and source control.
• Debug issues using Visual Studio and Chrome DevTools.
• Write PowerShell scripts for automation tasks or environment setup.
• Contribute to code reviews and provide guidance on test coverage and automation design.

Skills

C# Development

Playwright

SpecFlow

Gherkin

BDD

Unit testing

PowerShell

CI/CD

TeamCity

Git

Debugging

Chrome DevTools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

MBA/MS in Information Science preferred

Tools

NUnit

xUnit

MSTest

Bitbucket

Visual Studio

Chrome DevTools

Job description

Versant Health is seeking a Senior SQA Automation Engineer Lead to define and execute our automation strategy for UI, API, and database validation. You will build robust frameworks with C#, Playwright, SpecFlow, and modern tooling, integrating tests into CI/CD with TeamCity.

Apply your deep knowledge of QA, coding, and analytics to raise product quality in a HIPAA‑compliant vision care environment. Join a collaborative team focused on high‑quality software delivery and streamlined testing