Test Engineer, Senior - Remote

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as a senior embedded agile team member, providing technical leadership in sprint planning, execution, and delivery while ensuring sprint and release quality objectives are met.
• Leads the application and evolution of HES Quality Assurance standards, including test stage ownership, entrance/exit criteria, Definition of Done, and audit readiness across teams.
• Owes test strategy and approach for assigned products or initiatives, ensuring appropriate coverage across functional, integration, regression, performance, and risk-based testing.
• Designs, develops, and maintains robust, scalable automated test solutions using approved frameworks and tools (e.g., PlayWright, Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, Rest Assured, Allure), supporting UI, API, batch, and data validation testing.
• Leads and evolves automation strategy and regression suites, identifying opportunities to improve stability, execution speed, maintainability, and overall return on investment.
• Integrates and maintains automated tests within CI/CD pipelines, supporting sprint level and release level quality gates using Azure DevOps and related tooling.
• Oversees test management and governance within Azure DevOps, ensuring high quality test artifacts, traceability, execution evidence, and meaningful reporting.
• Provides technical mentorship and coaching to Test Engineers and team members, promoting testing standards, best practices, and modern methodologies (e.g., BDD, TDD, exploratory testing and shift left testing).
• Collaborates with product owners, architects, developers, and stakeholders to identify quality risks early, influence design for testability, and drive defect prevention.
• Leads or supports complex production issue investigations, including root-cause analysis, validation of fixes, and recommendations for quality improvements.
• Communicates testing status, quality risks, and recommendations clearly to leadership and stakeholders, escalating issues that may impact delivery timelines or product quality.
• Contributes to process improvement initiatives, tooling enhancements, and shared utilities that strengthen Quality Engineering capabilities across teams.
• Actively participates in Communities of Practice and remains current with industry trends, emerging tools, and quality engineering practices to continuously elevate HES QA maturity.

Qualifications/Education/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree and six plus years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities:
• Advanced experience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks and strategies.
• Strong proficiency with PlayWright, Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, REST API testing, and/or supporting tools.
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps for test management, execution, reporting, and CI/CD integration.
• Deep understanding of Agile / SAFe methodologies and quality engineering within cross-functional teams.
• Advanced SQL and data validation skills; experience testing complex, data-driven systems.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, microservices, batch jobs, and integrations.
• Working knowledge of Java and tes-trelated design patterns.
• Experience or demonstrated adoption of AI-assisted development and testing tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to improve automation efficiency while maintaining quality and security standards.
• Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills with the ability to influence without authority.
• Experience with Agentic AI tools.

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• Duties are performed primarily in a home office setting utilizing computer equipment.
• Travel to attend meetings and visit locations throughout the country may be required.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to use hands.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.