Staff QA Automation Engineer — AI-Driven Automation Leader

Empower Pharmacy; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Empower Pharmacy seeks a Staff QA Automation Engineer to lead enterprise automation architecture and quality standards. You will drive AI-assisted testing, framework evolution, and scalable pipelines, partnering with leaders to deliver reliable software across the organization.

This role requires deep expertise in test automation, performance engineering, and governance, with significant autonomy and strategic impact in a regulated healthcare tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in software quality assurance or test automation.
• Experience leading enterprise automation strategy and standards.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted testing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the automation framework architecture and multi-year roadmap.
• Define scalable design patterns and reusable components.
• Pilot AI-enabled testing, self-healing automation, and observability.
• Lead pipeline health, performance testing, and capacity planning.
• Establish enterprise validation strategies across APIs and data stores.
• Mentor engineers and influence cross-team quality practices.

Skills

QA Automation

Automation Frameworks

AI in Testing

Performance Testing

Leadership

Test strategy

Education

Bachelor's in CS/SE

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

SQL

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Empower Pharmacy seeks a Staff QA Automation Engineer to lead enterprise automation architecture and quality standards. You will drive AI-assisted testing, framework evolution, and scalable pipelines, partnering with leaders to deliver reliable software across the organization.

This role requires deep expertise in test automation, performance engineering, and governance, with significant autonomy and strategic impact in a regulated healthcare tech environment.