Senior Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and implement comprehensive end-to-end quality processes for an engineering team dedicated to achieving full test automation, eliminating the need for separate QA.
• Leverage the expertise of our Quality Center of Excellence (CoE) to embed a culture of quality within software engineering teams, driving the development of Fidelity’s mobile, web, and API experiences.
• Champion best practices, including automation technology, test pyramid health, mobile testing strategies, AI-driven testing solutions, release management, SDLC ways of work, and Definition of Done.
• Take ownership of team outcomes and success metrics, including test coverage, automation levels, change failure rate, and pipeline stability.
• Mentor and collaborate with team and project leads to develop and refine test strategy, scope, and mobile testing frameworks.
• Monitor, maintain, and optimize test suites and CI/CD pipelines to ensure a balance between reliability, test coverage, and developer productivity.
• Explore and implement AI/ML-driven testing tools and techniques to enhance test efficiency, defect detection, and overall quality assurance.

• 5+ years of professional SDET experience (Software Development Engineer in Test), with a strong focus on writing code for test automation.
• Proven experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks for native iOS and native Android (bonus points for web and API applications).
• Familiarity with AI/ML-driven testing tools and techniques, with a focus on improving test efficiency and defect detection.
• Hands‑on experience managing and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, test automation tools and frameworks, feature‑toggle management tools, and test environments.
• Demonstrated success working on software engineering teams that own and implement their own quality practices, without reliance on separate QA teams.
• Strong software engineering background or exposure, with the ability to read, write, and debug Unit, Integration, and End-to-End test code.
• Expertise in maintaining and optimizing automated functional test suites to ensure a balance between reliability, test coverage, and developer productivity.
• Proficiency in creating and maintaining test data and managing vendor relationships for testing tools and services.

• test automation
• test automation frameworks
• mobile testing
• AI-driven testing
• CI/CD pipelines
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• End-to-End testing
• test data management
• defect detection

• mentoring
• collaboration
• ownership
• communication
• leadership