Automation Engineer, Officer

Summary

Work as a senior member of the automation center of excellence team to execute the overall quality plan for Charles River’s products. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River. The candidate should be a sharp automation framework engineer with strong problem‑solving skills and a solid automation test framework building foundation. This role requires a talented, detail oriented, enthusiastic individual who is passionate about quality with the ability to grasp tough issues quickly and deliver well engineered, high‑quality solutions.

We are looking for a strong software engineer to build out the next generation of our software test automation framework, pipeline and infrastructure as part of our Quality Assurance Infrastructure team. The candidate will be responsible for developing, delivering and supporting the software infrastructure that enables automated product validation and for planning and executing central automated regression runs for all product departments.

• Work closely with the scrum master, product owner, architect, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team.
• Expand the test automation framework capabilities needed to comprehensively test business requirements for all products and services.
• Create pipelines to execute automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests.
• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices, comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices.
• Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members.
• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team’s QA methodology and by researching and recommending new approaches to automation of testing, including use of Artificial Intelligence.
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Participate in testathon activities as required by releases.
• Guide and mentor junior staff in best practices and proper creation of automated test scripts.

Education: B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background. M.S. degree strongly preferred.

Experience:

• 2–4 years of experience in building and supporting test automation frameworks in an enterprise, process‑driven environment.
• Strong programming skills in Java, C#, Power Shell and Bash.
• Hands‑on experience implementing automation tools and frameworks with industry standard tools such as Rest Assured, Playwright, Azure SDK, Kafka SDK, Cosmos DB, Swagger, Silk4
  
  Net, FlaUI, Talend.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
• Experience with creating and updating on‑demand pipelines and relevant tools such as Team City, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD.
• Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multi‑tier applications.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans.
• Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional areas is a plus.
• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired.
• Effective written and verbal communication.

$65,000 – $113,750 Annual

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes a retirement savings plan (401(k) with company match); insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long‑term disability, and other optional additional…