Sr. Automation Engineer

Job Summary

100% Automation. Zero Manual Testing. Maximum Impact. If you are a backend automation purist who thrives on testing complex, high-throughput architectures (Mule Soft, ESB, MQ, Kafka), this is your playground. As Senior Automation Engineer, you will design a brand-new integration testing practice and serve as the critical bridge between our most vital applications.

Location:

San Antonio, Texas

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $55 - $65 per hour

Work Hours:

8am to 5pm

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree

• Lead Integration Automation: Architect, develop, and maintain comprehensive, headless test automation frameworks for enterprise-wide integration layers, specifically focusing on Mule Soft (external connectors) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architectures.
• End-to-End Service Verification: Validate backend services, API endpoints, notifications, and data pipelines to ensure seamless communication between digital platforms, third-party vendor integrations, and core legacy mainframes.
• Asynchronous Messaging Testing: Design and execute automated test scripts to validate high-throughput messaging queues and data streams, ensuring proper message routing and delivery across IBM MQ and Apache Kafka pipelines.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as the central integration testing liaison; proactively collaborate with upstream and downstream application teams, development squads, and business units to ensure rigorous end-to-end testing coverage ahead of critical ESB releases.
• Practice Transformation: Champion modern Quality Engineering practices within a highly visible, newly established integration space, introducing robust automation patterns that move away from manual verification toward full CI/CD test integration.

• Minimum of 5-6+ years of dedicated software test automation experience focused on backend, API, and integration layer testing.
• Strong, hands‑on proficiency with Karate and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) frameworks.
• Strong coding skills in Java and Python for building headless automation scripts and interacting directly with backend queues.
• Solid understanding of enterprise integration technologies, including Mule Soft, ESB, IBM MQ, and Apache Kafka.
• High level of professional maturity and communication skills; ability to operate autonomously as an individual contributor and single point of contact while coordinating with multiple application teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field is highly preferred.

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• Medical, prescription, dental, vision insurance
• AD&D and life insurance offerings
• Short-term disability
• 401(k) plan (eligibility based)