QA Automation Engineer

• Develop and maintain EAG/API-gateway automation components that integrate with Government-approved CI/CD pipelines.
• Create and validate configuration-as-code, pipeline-compatible deployment artifacts, gateway promotion workflows, API validation gates, and migration automation components.
• Support automated checks for API specification quality, governance compliance, Zero Trust controls, telemetry, configuration drift, and production-readiness evidence.
• Build automation and validation evidence that supports PWS automation outcomes, including 75 percent manual onboarding reduction, 90 percent automated onboarding success rate, and 100 percent Zero Trust/governance compliance prior to production deployment.
• Troubleshoot gateway-side CI/CD integration issues, including deployment failures, configuration errors, credential/certificate dependencies, environment promotion issues, and validation gate failures.
• Support Git-based version control, branching, pull/merge request workflows, artifact repositories, and release evidence.
• Coordinate with Government CI/CD, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, identity, network, and release teams for platform-owned dependencies.
• Produce pipeline documentation, automation runbooks, validation logs, deployment evidence, rollback steps, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Gateway Automation Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI, API, and backend testing.
• Lead the automation strategy, prioritizing efforts based on risk, impact, and business needs; establish and enforce automation standards and best practices.
• Convert manual test cases into automated solutions.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Execute, monitor, and maintain automated regression and smoke test suites to ensure product stability and quality.
• Conduct root cause analysis on defects and test failures.
• Prepare and communicate quality metrics and status reports to management.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and other stakeholders to ensure quality requirements are clearly defined.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – Automation

• Lead the setup, installation, and commissioning of all plant equipment as part of the Plant 2 brownfield launch, coordinating with OEMs, riggers, contractors, facilities, and internal teams from site preparation and delivery through production release.
• Conduct factory and site acceptance testing (FAT/SAT) and production runoff/buy-off of new equipment with OEMs prior to release to manufacturing.
• Assess existing building infrastructure (power distribution, compressed air, ventilation, floor loading) against equipment requirements and define the modifications needed to support each installation.
• Manage equipment installation project schedules, budgets, and contractor activities; report progress, risks, and milestones to plant leadership.
• Coordinate required permits and inspections with local authorities and contractors (e.g., paint shop air permitting, fire, electrical, and crane/rigging inspections).
• Develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance programs for all assigned equipment; establish PM schedules, checklists, and documentation in the CMMS.
• Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and control system issues to minimize unplanned downtime; provide rapid response support to production.
• Program, configure, and maintain PLCs, HMIs, robotic systems, and machine controls; manage software backups, parameters, and revision control.
• Program, teach, and optimize robotic welding cells, including weld parameters, torch and consumable maintenance, and coordination of weld fixtures with engineering.
• Establish and manage critical spare parts inventory, vendor relationships, and service contracts for assigned equipment.
• Define equipment layouts, utility requirements (power, compressed air, ventilation, dust/fume extraction), and foundations for new installations.
• Develop standard work, operating procedures, and training materials; train operators and maintenance technicians on safe and proper equipment use.
• Drive continuous improvement in OEE, cycle time, scrap reduction, and changeover time using lean and root-cause methodologies (5 Why, fishbone, FMEA).
• Ensure all equipment and work practices comply with OSHA, machine guarding, and lockout/tagout (LOTO) requirements; lead equipment risk assessments.
• Support capital equipment justification, specification, and acquisition for future automation projects.
• Track and report equipment KPIs to plant leadership.
• Create / maintain complete equipment documentation, including manuals, electrical schematics, as-built drawings, and plant layout files.
• Lead the implementation of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), including requirements definition, vendor evaluation, equipment/machine connectivity, shop floor data collection, and integration with ERP and quality systems.
• Drive plant digitalization and Industry 4.0 initiatives, including machine data acquisition (OPC UA/IIoT sensors), real-time production and OEE dashboards, digital work instructions, paperless quality records, and predictive maintenance analytics.
• Perform other duties as assigned; the scope of this role is expected to expand as Plant operations grow.

Automation Engineer

• Drive execution of material handling and warehouse automation initiatives across multiple North America EMS sites.
• Support sites in prioritizing opportunities, structuring work, managing execution, and stabilizing deployed systems.
• Ensure implementation aligns with regional expectations, standards, and scalable approaches.
• Guide and support deployment of new automation systems, including: requirements alignment, supplier engagement, technical evaluation, quotation and proposal review, installation, startup, ramp validation and handoff.
• Ensure strong alignment between warehouse automation systems and production operations.
• Mentor facility-level automation engineers and technical resources across the region.

Principal Engineer, Material Handling – Warehouse Automation

• Responsible for understanding the needs of the business, providing solutions to improve efficiency, and supporting solutions implemented within the enterprise
• Serves as a liaison between business operations and automated solutions with an emphasis on workflow architecture
• Responsible for maintaining numerous workflows and detailed knowledge of their impact on all systems
• Mentors less experienced engineers
• Manages time, priorities, and customer expectations across multiple projects
• Takes technical direction from senior team members and participates in a knowledge-sharing environment
• Participates in agile team processes
• Research and specify the optimal solution for workflow-based process automation
• Design and develop the identified optimal workflow-based automated processes
• Test and certify the implemented optimal workflow-based automated processes
• Analyze business requirements specification, then translate into functional specifications
• Write and maintain technical specifications according to functional specifications
• Maintain source level control of all workflows
• Troubleshoot and resolve all defects and incidents in a timely manner
• Provide process support, which includes problem research, analysis, resolution, and on-call support
• Communicate effectively with business users, sponsors, and other product teams
• Ensures product conformance to sound engineering principles, customer requirements, and industry best practices
• Ensure all technology practices adhere to regulatory security standards
• Analyze current solutions and technologies used by back-office applications
• Foster cross-platform development, collaboration, and solutions.
• Influence changes to standards when necessary

Lead Automation Engineer

• Leads and oversees the work of a group of Automation Design Engineers
• Reviews and approves design drawings, user manual and installation manual
• Works closely with Project Manager/Engineer to meet project time line and budget
• Leads the team in review, understanding and interpretation of requirements to ensure all specifications are integrated into the design of automation equipment
• Leads design engineers in review of design and manufacturability of design

• Leads and oversees the work of a group of Automation Design Engineers.
• Reviews and approves design drawings, user manual and installation manual.
• Works closely with Project Manager/Engineer to meet project time line and budget.
• Leads the team in review, understanding and interpretation of requirements to ensure all specifications are integrated into the design of automation equipment.

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