Shelton Infrastructure Engr- Testing & Automation

Testing & Automation Engineer

About the Role:

The Testing & Automation Engineer designs develops and maintains automated test solutions that ensure the quality and reliability of software applications and services operating as part of the enterprise-wide Testing function a horizontal shared service supporting all product platform and engineering teams. This role increases functional test coverage through automation reduces manual effort and supports consistent high-quality delivery across the software development lifecycle in accelerated AI-assisted cycles. The Testing & Automation Engineer partners closely with Software Engineers Product and DevOps teams to embed quality early and continuously.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Design develop and maintain automated tests for UI API and backend services; execute functional integration regression and end-to-end tests across applications and platforms applying a test-pyramid approach that favors fast reliable API/service-level automation.
• Partner with Software Engineers and Product teams to define test scenarios and acceptance criteria; participate in sprint planning refinement and retrospectives.
• Maintain and enhance test-automation frameworks and tooling; build resilient maintainable automation (e.g. attribute/accessibility-based locators) that survives UI and content change; integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps) for continuous testing.
• Identify document and track defects through resolution; perform root-cause analysis and partner with engineering teams on fixes.
• Define and apply functional-quality release-readiness criteria; provide evidence-based quality signals and go/no-go input for releases and report coverage and defect-escape measures.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools across the test lifecycle (test-case generation test-data creation coverage analysis defect detection); review and validate AI-generated tests tag and report AI-generated test cases for transparency and help define guardrails for safe policy-compliant AI use.

Qualifications (some examples listed below):

• 57 years of experience in software testing quality engineering or automation roles.
• Proficiency with automation tools and frameworks (e.g. Selenium Cypress Playwright REST-assured Postman or similar).
• Ability to read write or debug test code or scripts (e.g. Java JavaScript/TypeScript Python C#).
• Understanding of REST APIs and service-based architectures; familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and continuous-testing concepts.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted testing tools and practices required.
• Familiarity with observability concepts and using quality/monitoring signals to inform testing is a plus.
• Bachelors degree preferred in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related field. Equivalent practical experience considered.

People Management: No Department: Technology / Engineering / Testing Reports To: Director Testing & Observability Location: Onsite Travel: Minimal to none.