Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BlastPoint is a B2B data analytics startup located in Pittsburgh, and they are seeking a Senior Automation QA Engineer / SDET to develop and enhance their testing strategy and automation infrastructure. The role focuses on building scalable QA systems and integrating automated testing into their CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks for platform, API, integration, functional, regression, and end-to-end testing
- Own the regression testing strategy for critical customer-facing workflows
- Establish practical load, performance, and reliability testing practices for key platform areas
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and help define release quality gates
- Partner with DevOps on QA environments, automated deployments, test data, and release validation
- Use AI tools as a co-engineer to accelerate automation development, test design, defect analysis, documentation, and QA process improvements
- Work with engineers to make features more testable from the start
- Evaluate and implement testing tools for E2E, API, smoke, regression, performance, and integration testing
- Improve bug triage, defect communication, root-cause visibility, and release-readiness reporting
- Reduce reliance on manual QA through maintainable automation while preserving targeted exploratory testing
- Mentor engineers and future QA contributors on test design, automation standards, and quality best practices
- Bring structure, ownership, and practical QA discipline to a fast-moving startup engineering environment
- Help mature BlastPoint’s QA culture as the engineering organization scales
Skills
- 6+ years of QA automation, SDET, or software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience building QA processes, automation frameworks, or test infrastructure from the ground up
- Strong experience across functional, regression, automated, exploratory, API, integration, and load/performance testing
- Strong programming or scripting ability in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or a similar language
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Pytest, k6, JMeter, Locust, or similar
- Comfort working with cloud-hosted SaaS systems
- Ability to work across frontend, backend, data, API, and infrastructure concerns
- Strong judgment around test coverage, risk, maintainability, speed, and engineering effort
- Comfort using AI tools to improve QA speed, coverage, debugging, and automation productivity
- Proven ability to operate independently in a lean or startup engineering environment
- Strong ownership, communication, technical judgment, and ability to create structure from ambiguity
- AWS experience preferred
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar
Benefits
- Base Salary + Equity (Ownership in BlastPoint)
- Home Office: $500 stipend
- Health: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Time Off: 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, unlimited sick time
- Retirement: 401(k)
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