Staff QA Automation Engineer

🕒 August 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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Empower Pharmacy

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2009

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Debt financing on 2023-10

Pharmaceuticals • Healthcare • Manufacturing

Empower Pharmacy is a U. S. -based compounding pharmacy and pharmaceutical manufacturer focused on producing individualized (compounded) medications at scale. Founded to expand access to affordable, high-quality personalized therapies, Empower operates both 503A and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facilities, including large sterile manufacturing sites built to current Good Manufacturing Practices and leveraging automation for scalability. The company touts nationwide licensure, high-volume dispensing (reports filling thousands of custom-compounded prescriptions daily), and a mission centered on quality, safety, service, and innovation in pharmaceutical care.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture, governance, and multi-year roadmap for the enterprise automation ecosystem across UI, API, performance, accessibility, visual, and end-to-end testing. • Define automation architecture, quality engineering strategy, scalable design patterns, reusable framework components, and engineering standards. • Evaluate and introduce AI-assisted test generation, self-healing automation, intelligent test optimization, and observability technologies. • Architect reusable Page Objects, API clients, authentication utilities, fixtures, reporting modules, test data management, and validation libraries. • Define strategies for API contract validation, response schema verification, database validation, Salesforce integration testing, and cross-platform data integrity. • Lead enterprise performance testing for capacity planning, scalability, stress, spike, and production readiness. • Own the health, architecture, scalability, and reliability of automated execution pipelines across Azure DevOps, GitHub, Docker, and cloud environments. • Define reporting strategies integrating Jira, Xray, Allure, Microsoft Teams, Prometheus, Grafana, and other engineering platforms. • Lead investigations into complex automation failures, pipeline instability, flaky tests, performance degradation, and integration issues. • Establish enterprise-wide automation governance, technical reviews, engineering standards, and architectural guidance. • Mentor senior and mid-level quality engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing. • Partner with engineering leadership, architects, product management, DevOps, and cross-functional stakeholders to align automation strategy with business objectives. • Represent quality engineering in architectural planning and communicate metrics, AI adoption strategies, and return on investment to executive leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent education and progressive professional experience. • 12 or more years of progressive experience in software quality assurance, test automation, quality engineering, or software development in test. • Demonstrated success leading enterprise automation strategy, architecting scalable frameworks, and influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams without direct authority. • Extensive hands-on experience with Playwright, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, UI testing, API automation, integration testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing, contract testing, and performance testing. • Experience with CI/CD pipeline architecture, cloud-native engineering practices, and enterprise system integrations. • Expert knowledge of enterprise test automation architecture, quality engineering principles, and modern software development practices. • Ability to implement AI-assisted engineering, predictive quality analytics, self-healing automation, and intelligent test optimization. • Advanced expertise in performance engineering, API contract validation, cloud-based development platforms, Git workflows, Azure DevOps, GitHub, SQL, enterprise integrations, and observability technologies. • Ability to solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems. • Ability to influence architecture decisions, establish enterprise engineering standards, build organizational consensus, and drive continuous improvement across cross-functional teams. • Preferred experience with enterprise automation platforms, AI-assisted testing, accessibility automation, containerized execution, cloud platforms, healthcare or regulated industries, and certifications such as ISTQB Advanced or Expert Level, Test Automation Engineer, Microsoft Azure, AWS, GitHub, Salesforce, Agile, or DevOps.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Paid time off • 401(k) matching • Wellness perks • IV therapy • Compounded medications