Rockwell Automation

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Rockwell Automation

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Mayfield Heights • Ohio • Wisconsin • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDockerGrafanaGRPCKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusPython

About the role

  • Define and evolve the automation strategy for system-level and integration testing across the Digital Platform
  • Design and implement scalable automated system tests for critical end-to-end workflows spanning microservices
  • Develop reusable testing frameworks, libraries, and templates to standardize automation across teams
  • Analyze logs, traces, metrics, and observability signals to identify system defects and performance bottlenecks
  • Mentor team members and contribute to building a high-performance Quality Engineering culture
  • Create and maintain dashboards for test coverage, reliability metrics, and system health indicators
  • Collaborate with DevOps to integrate automated system tests into CI/CD pipelines and expand shift-left testing
  • Drive root-cause analysis and support cross-functional debugging of complex distributed issues
  • Work closely with architecture, development, and product teams to ensure feature readiness and alignment with quarterly milestones

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
  • Typically requires 5+ years of experience in system, integration, or platform testing for distributed or cloud-native systems
  • Expertise in Python, automated test frameworks (pytest), and building extensible automation libraries
  • Deep understanding of gRPC, RESTful APIs, protobuf, and schema-based contract validation
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka, MQTT, AMQP, or other message brokers for event-driven architectures
  • Strong proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and cloud-native deployment ecosystems
  • Experience with logging, tracing, and observability stacks (ELK, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
  • Ability to debug complex microservice interactions using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools
  • Experience with industrial automation
  • Understanding of tag-based data models, asset/metadata discovery services, or catalog-driven orchestration
  • Familiarity with platform interoperability testing, system-level data flow validation, and large-scale distributed testing.
Benefits
  • Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
  • 401k
  • Paid Time off
  • Parental and Caregiver Leave
  • Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonautomated test frameworkspytestgRPCRESTful APIsprotobufKafkaMQTTDockerKubernetes
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationroot-cause analysisdebuggingcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree