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Senior Automation QA Engineer / SDET

Location

United States

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

$120K - $140K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Automation QA Engineer / SDET

BlastPoint

• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks for platform, API, integration, functional, regression, and end-to-end testing. • Own the regression testing strategy for critical customer-facing workflows. • Establish practical load, performance, and reliability testing practices for key platform areas. • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and help define release quality gates. • Partner with DevOps on QA environments, automated deployments, test data, and release validation. • Use AI tools as a co-engineer to accelerate automation development, test design, defect analysis, documentation, and QA process improvements. • Work with engineers to make features more testable from the start. • Evaluate and implement testing tools for E2E, API, smoke, regression, performance, and integration testing. • Improve bug triage, defect communication, root-cause visibility, and release-readiness reporting. • Reduce reliance on manual QA through maintainable automation while preserving targeted exploratory testing. • Mentor engineers and future QA contributors on test design, automation standards, and quality best practices. • Bring structure, ownership, and practical QA discipline to a fast-moving startup engineering environment. • Help mature BlastPoint’s QA culture as the engineering organization scales.

Job Requirements

  • 6+ years of QA automation, SDET, or software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated experience building QA processes, automation frameworks, or test infrastructure from the ground up.
  • Strong experience across functional, regression, automated, exploratory, API, integration, and load/performance testing.
  • Strong programming or scripting ability in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or a similar language.
  • Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Pytest, k6, JMeter, Locust, or similar.
  • Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar.
  • Comfort working with cloud-hosted SaaS systems; AWS experience preferred.
  • Ability to work across frontend, backend, data, API, and infrastructure concerns.
  • Strong judgment around test coverage, risk, maintainability, speed, and engineering effort.
  • Comfort using AI tools to improve QA speed, coverage, debugging, and automation productivity.
  • Proven ability to operate independently in a lean or startup engineering environment.
  • Strong ownership, communication, technical judgment, and ability to create structure from ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Base Salary + Equity (Ownership in BlastPoint)
  • Home Office: $500 stipend
  • Health: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Time Off: 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, unlimited sick time
  • Retirement: 401(k)

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