Automation Engineer

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$70.00/hr - $80.00/hr

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• 80%+ hands-on coding:
  Heavy individual contribution role focused on:
• Writing test automation code
• Building automation infrastructure
• Evaluating and possibly replacing existing frameworks
• Work closely with QA Lead (Antonius)
• Collaborate with developers, including distinguished engineers
• Identify untestable code and propose changes
• Debugging & Issue Resolution:
  • Dig deep into issues found by automation
  • Raise detailed JIRA tickets or fix code if within scope
• Informal leadership:
  • Not a team lead role
  • Expected to mentor junior engineers or guide best practices
  • Influence the testability and quality of the codebase

• Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  ~8+ years preferred
• Must understand trade-offs and system design
• Ideal if candidate has previously designed or improved automation infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Jetpack Compose (JPC)
  • Model-View-Intent (MVI) or similar (MVVM/MVP okay, MVI preferred)
  • Espresso or other standard Android testing frameworks
  • Bonus:
    Ability to build custom testing libraries

• Primary language:
  Kotlin
• Must be able to read and work with Kotlin
• Experience writing production or test code in Kotlin is strongly preferred
• Other acceptable tools/languages:
  • Python okay for automation (but Kotlin still needed)
  • AI integration:
    Should be aware of AI trends in test automation
  • Not necessarily an AI expert, but should know how to leverage AI tools for code/test generation

• Remote position
• Preferred time zone: PST (±3 hours)
• EST-based candidates okay if working PST hours
• Team structure currently:
  • Possibly a few junior engineers
  • This is the first key hire for automation
  • Potential to convert to FTE:
    Yes, based on performance

• Knows trade-offs in test strategy, infra, and tooling
• Can build, debug, document, and evangelize test automation
• Communicates well and can push back respectfully when needed
• Adaptive, with good learning ability if not fluent in Kotlin or internal tools

• Heavy focus on hardware/firmware testing
• e.g., automotive, IoT testing, or serial port-based testing
• Candidates unfamiliar with Android app testing libraries or architecture

• Published work on automation or testing (e.g., books, blog posts)
• Demonstrated ownership of automation frameworks at scale
• AI/ML-assisted testing experience

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