Key skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaAIClaudeCypressPlaywrightSeleniumPytestJenkinsGitHub ActionsCircleCIGitHubCI/CDLeadershipTeam Leadership
About this role
SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company aiming to disrupt the Pharmacy Benefit Management sector with innovative technology and superior customer service. As a Senior Staff Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining automated tests, managing test strategies, and advocating for quality within the engineering team to ensure high standards and efficient delivery of products.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain automated tests to help ensure high test coverage and fast feedback on defects
- Continuously maintain and improve our test frameworks
- Help define the test architecture across all test frameworks and tooling
- Manage test strategy, product testing, and planning within your sprint team
- Create testing-related documentation including test plans and test cases
- Find and report bugs and track these to resolution in a timely manner
- Collaborate with the Product team to provide valuable insight and input to help create impactful features
- Provide clear test results to Development and Product teams to help manage project expectations/progress
- Create and maintain security and performance tests
- Develop deep expertise in the SmithRx products
- Utilize AI tools like Playwright MCP, Claude, and Copilot to realize efficiencies in your daily work
- Maintain and refine quality metrics to help track and communicate overall product health
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of experience in QA and automation testing with a demonstrated track record of team leadership
- Experience with one of the following languages: Python, Typescript, Java, or Javascript
- Experience with writing automated tests for API's in a scripting or programming language
- Experience with API automation frameworks such as Pytest or REST Assured
- Experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright
- Familiarity with Page Object Model for UI automation
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Jenkins