Automation Engineer

Position: Staff Automation Engineer
We're building a world of health around every individual - shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

POSITION SUMMARYCVS Health is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers' lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, our team is seeking a seasoned Staff Automation Engineer to lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust, scalable test automation frameworks.

This Staff Engineer will be the go-to expert for Playwright and BDD practices, driving quality across web, API, and microservices. Additionally, this technical lead will partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Dev Ops to embed testing deeply into our CI/CD pipelines and accelerate reliable, frequent releases.

Expectations for the Role:

Build and own Playwright-based automation frameworks (Type Script/JavaScript or Python) for UI, API, and end-to-end scenarios

Define test strategy around Gherkin, collaborate on feature files, and integrate with tools like Cucumber (or Spec Flow/Behave) to align tests with business outcomes by adapting BDDIntegrate automated test suites into pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Git Lab CI), enabling fast feedback, parallel execution, flaky test management, and quality gates by embedding CI/CDPartner with developers on testability, contract testing (e.g., Pact), mocking, and service virtualization to keep tests fast and reliable

Establish and maintain coverage for functional, accessibility, cross-browser/device, and basic performance checks; drive test data strategies and environment configuration

Operationalize instrument tests for observability (dashboards, trends, test analytics), triage failures, and continuously improve stability

Mentor engineers on automation best practices, code reviews, and BDD collaboration; champion quality across squads

Collaborate to ensure quality controls support security, privacy, and compliance requirements (e.g., OWASP considerations in test scenarios)
Keep clear, versioned documentation for frameworks, guidelines, and runbooks

Support mobile automation using Appium or Detox Ensure cross-browser/device coverage via Browser Stack or Sauce Labs Implement contract testing with Pact for microservices

Embed security and accessibility checks using OWASP ZAP and axe-core Explore AI-driven testing for self-healing locators and intelligent test generation

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONSAt least 7+ years in software test automation with a track record of delivering frameworks and large test suites5+ years of expertise within Playwright or similar modern framework (Type Script/JavaScript or Python): specifically within parallel runs, fixtures, test isolation, network interception, retries, trace viewer, and cross-browser strategies5+ years of strong BDD experience:
Gherkin proficiency; collaboration with Product/BA on acceptance criteria; integrating Cucumber/Spec Flow/Behave in pipelines5+ years of experience being a CI/CD expert with proven hands-on integrating tests into pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Git Lab CI); artifact management; gating strategies; containerized test execution (Docker)5+ years of experience with REST/Graph

QL testing via Playwright, Postman/newman, or native libraries; familiarity with contract testing (e.g., Pact) and mocking5+ years of experience leveraging AI for test case generation, self-healing locators, intelligent test selection, or summarizing failures; familiarity with tools or building internal utilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSPerformance testing:
Baseline perf checks using Playwright trace/metrics, k6, or JMeter; integrating perf smoke into CIAccessibility:
Automated a11y checks (axe-core, Playwright a11y) and WCAG awareness

Contract & integration testing:
Pact, wiremock/service virtualization

Observability & quality analytics:
Dashboards with ELK/EFK, Grafana, or custom reporting; trend analysis of flaky tests and MTTRCloud & containers:
Running tests in Docker;
Kubernetes test runners; experience with AWS/Azure/GCP for test infrastructure

Security basics:
Familiarity with OWASP testing considerations; integrating SAST/DAST into CIMobile & cross-platform:
Playwright for mobile web, Appium for native when relevant

Code quality: ESLint/Prettier, Sonar Qube, and coverage tooling (nyc/istanbul, Jest coverage)
Quality mindset:
Strong debugging skills, flaky test mitigation, root-cause analysis, and test data management

Soft skills:

Team player, excellent communication, ability to work cross‑functionally,…