Quality Automation Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Quality Automation Engineer to help modernize Quality Engineering across the Fox News Media Engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Define automation strategy and design, build, and maintain scalable frameworks for web, mobile, API, and end-to-end testing across Fox News Media digital products.
• Expand automated regression coverage while continuously improving execution speed, reliability, maintainability, and overall test effectiveness.
• Partner with Engineering to integrate automated testing, quality gates, release validation, and quality metrics into CI/CD pipelines, enabling rapid feedback and confident software delivery.
• Develop reusable automation tools and utilities that improve testing efficiency and streamline regression testing, test data management, quality reporting, defect triage, release readiness, deployment validation, and production verification.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering during feature planning and development to improve requirements, acceptance criteria, application testability, observability, shift-left practices, and overall product quality.
• Perform targeted exploratory and manual testing where human judgment provides the greatest value, particularly for new functionality, editorial workflows, user experience, accessibility, and high-risk releases.
• Review application architecture, source code, pull requests, APIs, logs, and deployment changes to proactively identify quality risks and strengthen automation strategies.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate automation development, test generation, defect analysis, documentation, and quality reporting.
• Maintain test coverage and test case hygiene in test management systems, including prioritization, traceability, lifecycle status, and automation mapping.
• Create quality metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into automation coverage, release health, defect trends, escaped defects, and overall engineering quality.
• Support production deployments by validating critical user journeys, monitoring application health, analyzing production issues, and partnering with engineering teams to rapidly identify and resolve customer-impacting defects.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Quality Engineering supporting modern web, mobile, API, and connected TV (CTV) applications.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automation frameworks using Playwright, Appium, Selenium, Cypress, or comparable technologies.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, or similar languages used for automation development.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or comparable platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including source control, branching strategies, release management, and continuous integration.
• Demonstrated expertise in risk-based testing, quality strategy, defect triage, release readiness, and production validation.
• Ability to analyze frontend and backend code, API responses, logs, and network traffic to identify quality risks and improve test effectiveness.
• Experience using Chrome DevTools and proxy tools such as Charles Proxy or mitmproxy for frontend debugging, network inspection, and validation.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar technologies to accelerate automation development, code analysis, documentation, and testing workflows.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) concepts and AI agent integrations for engineering workflows.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containerized environments, and modern application architectures.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, analytics, and production health metrics as they relate to software quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner effectively across Engineering, Product, DevOps, and Technical Program Management teams.

Qualifications

• A regular, on-site attendance at the workplace a minimum of 3 days per week is an essential function of the position.

Skills

• Experience working in digital media, news, streaming, or other high-scale consumer technology environments.
• Experience testing CMS platforms, video playback, advertising technology, authentication systems, analytics implementations, or personalization platforms.
• Experience implementing AI-driven testing strategies, autonomous test generation, or intelligent Quality Engineering workflows.
• Experience with accessibility, performance, security, or resiliency testing.
• Experience with Nuxt, Vue, Prisma, or comparable frontend and backend technologies.
• Experience helping engineering organizations mature Quality Engineering practices through automation, tooling, and process improvements.

Benefits

This role is also eligible for various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.