
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Wells Fargo
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Iselin • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $110,000 - $196,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments
- Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
- Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
- Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
- Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
- Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, maintainable automated test frameworks for UI, API, and backend services
- Define and implement automation strategies aligned with Agile and CI/CD practices
- Own test coverage across functional, regression, smoke, and integration test layers
- Ensure automated tests are reliable, fast, and provide actionable feedback
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
- Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to improve test execution speed, stability, and observability
- Analyze pipeline failures and proactively reduce flaky tests
- Act as a quality advocate within the delivery team, promoting shift‑left testing and prevention over detection
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define acceptance criteria and test scenarios early in the lifecycle
- Identify quality risks and drive mitigation strategies
- Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to team standards and best practices
- Participate in design and code reviews with a quality and testability mindset
- Influence engineering teams to improve testability, logging, and error handling
- Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and testing approaches
- Track and report on quality metrics (test coverage, defect leakage, automation ROI)
- Continuously improve testing efficiency and effectiveness.
Requirements
- 4+ years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 4+ years of experience in QA Engineering or Software Engineering in Test
- Strong hands‑on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebDriver, REST‑assured)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#)
- Solid understanding of API testing, backend services, and microservices architectures
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
Benefits
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
test automation frameworksSeleniumPlaywrightCypressWebDriverREST-assuredJavaPythonJavaScriptC#
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillsleadershipcollaborationmentoringcommunicationguidanceinfluencequality advocacystrategic planning