Senior Test Automation Engineer
$146,000–$194,000 year
On-site · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Test Automation Engineer to build and maintain automated verification systems across development, verification, and deployment environments. You will own design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and drive features from ambiguous requirements to green CI code across multiple SWP teams. Key responsibilities include building robust automated systems for development, verification, and deployment; maintaining reference environments and HITL systems; creating representative test environments; integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines; and implementing AI-enabled automation to identify and fix issues早 in the development cycle, without impacting developer experience. Qualifications emphasize extensive hands-on automation experience, CI/CD proficiency, HITL/SITL expertise, Python scripting, containerization, and cloud familiarity. The role requires senior-level ownership of critical subsystems that support defense technology and scalable software platforms.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in building automated verification suites at scale
- DevOps practices, CI/CD pipeline development (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
- SRE principles
- automated testing frameworks
- scripting for automation
- Hands-on experience automating HITL and SITL in production release processes
- experience with automated regression, unit, and integration testing
- Python proficiency for automation and scripting
- containerization workflows and Terraform
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- NixOS experience
- experience in regulated/high-reliability environments
- US Salary Range (146000-194000)
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