Senior Automation QA Engineer / SDET

BlastPoint

Senior Automation QA Engineer for BlastPoint. Designing automated testing and QA practices for a B2B SaaS platform.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudCypressJavaScriptJMeterPythonSeleniumTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks for platform, API, integration, functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.
Own the regression testing strategy for critical customer-facing workflows.
Establish practical load, performance, and reliability testing practices for key platform areas.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and help define release quality gates.
Partner with DevOps on QA environments, automated deployments, test data, and release validation.
Use AI tools as a co-engineer to accelerate automation development, test design, defect analysis, documentation, and QA process improvements.
Work with engineers to make features more testable from the start.
Evaluate and implement testing tools for E2E, API, smoke, regression, performance, and integration testing.
Improve bug triage, defect communication, root-cause visibility, and release-readiness reporting.
Reduce reliance on manual QA through maintainable automation while preserving targeted exploratory testing.
Mentor engineers and future QA contributors on test design, automation standards, and quality best practices.
Bring structure, ownership, and practical QA discipline to a fast-moving startup engineering environment.
Help mature BlastPoint’s QA culture as the engineering organization scales.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of QA automation, SDET, or software engineering experience.
Demonstrated experience building QA processes, automation frameworks, or test infrastructure from the ground up.
Strong experience across functional, regression, automated, exploratory, API, integration, and load/performance testing.
Strong programming or scripting ability in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or a similar language.
Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Pytest, k6, JMeter, Locust, or similar.
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar.
Comfort working with cloud-hosted SaaS systems; AWS experience preferred.
Ability to work across frontend, backend, data, API, and infrastructure concerns.
Strong judgment around test coverage, risk, maintainability, speed, and engineering effort.
Comfort using AI tools to improve QA speed, coverage, debugging, and automation productivity.
Proven ability to operate independently in a lean or startup engineering environment.
Strong ownership, communication, technical judgment, and ability to create structure from ambiguity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Base Salary + Equity (Ownership in BlastPoint)
Home Office: $500 stipend
Health: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Time Off: 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, unlimited sick time
Retirement: 401(k)

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Hard Skills & Tools

QA automationSDETsoftware engineeringautomation frameworksfunctional testingregression testingAPI testingintegration testingload testingperformance testing

Soft Skills

strong judgmentownershipcommunicationtechnical judgmentability to create structure from ambiguitymentoringcollaborationindependenceadaptabilityproblem-solving