Staff Engineer - Automation

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer - Automation to drive automated testing for large-scale enterprise retail systems.

This fully remote role allows work from anywhere in the United States, with periodic in-person interviews at Pittsburgh or NYC locations. You will develop reusable automation libraries for microservices, REST APIs and UI testing, implement TDD QA practices across teams, and ensure quality through code reviews and CI/CD integration.

Qualifications

• Must have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Five+ years of post-baccalaureate experience in quality engineering or related field.
• Experience building UI/API automation frameworks for e-commerce/retail platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring, and CI/CD tooling.
• Ability to design test strategies, write test cases, and execute tests across multi-channel platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain reusable automation libraries for microservices, REST APIs and UI testing.
• Drive consistent TDD QA practices across teams.
• Ensure quality through code reviews and CI/CD integration.
• Create test strategies and scripts aligned with requirements.
• Lead automation discussions with developers, QA and stakeholders.

Skills

Automation libraries

UI testing

REST APIs

Microservices

TDD/QA practices

CI/CD

Code reviews

Version control

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field

Tools

Selenium

Java

Spring

Cucumber

JBehave

Maven/Gradle

Bamboo/Jenkins

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

GCP/AWS

Job description

Staff Engineer - Automation

AEO Employment Services CO LLC seeks a Staff Engineer - Automation to handle automated testing strategies for large scale enterprise retail systems. This is a fully remote position, and the employee can work from anywhere in the United States. Periodic in person presence is required at one of our Pittsburgh or NYC headquarters, distribution centers or field locations for interviews, orientation and quarterly meetups.

Duties include:

• (i) developing and maintaining reusable automation libraries for Microservices, REST APIs and UI testing; (ii) driving consistent Test Driven Development (TDD) QA practices across teams; (iii) ensuring quality standards through code reviews and CI/CD integration; (iv) creating test strategies and scripts aligned with requirements; and (v) ensuring appropriate version control, code merging, and review workflows.

This is a fully remote position, and the employee can work from anywhere in the United States. Periodic in person presence is required at one of our Pittsburgh or NYC headquarters, distribution centers or field locations for interviews, orientation and quarterly meetups.

Must have a bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field plus five (5) years of post-baccalaureate and progressively responsible experience in a related quality engineering position.

Experience must include three (3) years:

• (i) developing UI/API automation frameworks for e-commerce and retail platforms to validate core functionality; (ii) utilizing Selenium, Java and Spring and BDD tools Cucumber and JBehave for validating complex workflows across web and mobile channels; (iii) developing and executing tests of microservices and REST APIs supporting core retail functions such as order processing, product search, cart and checkout; (iv) designing test strategies, writing detailed test cases and executing tests to ensure business logic accuracy across multi-channel retail platforms; (v) using Java and Spring Boot for test development and build automation using Maven or Gradle; (vi) utilizing Bamboo or Jenkins for version control and CI/CD pipelines; (vii) writing SQL queries and scripts for data integrity validation in PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases for product updates and order creation status; (viii) working in cloud environments GCP or AWS for serverless deployments and monitoring build status; and (ix) leading automation discussions with Developer, QA and Other Stakeholders and advising on correct automation solution.

Experience can be concurrent.