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Important Notes (Must Read Before Submission)
- Manager-level reference is required at the time of submission
- Candidate must be willing to complete an AI assessment prior to client submission
- Assessment requires government-issued ID verification
- Candidate will be on camera
- Do NOT submit candidates who are uncomfortable with this requirement
Role Overview
This is a senior, highly autonomous leadership role responsible for defining and executing enterprise-wide automation strategy across cloud-native, microservices-based systems. The Automation Architect will design automation frameworks from scratch, embed automation fully within the sprint, and act as a trusted technical leader across engineering, infrastructure, and leadership teams.
The ideal candidate has strong AWS expertise, deep automation maturity, and hands-on experience leveraging AI tools to modernize testing practices and uplift engineering quality across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, architect, and evolve enterprise automation strategy and frameworks
- Ensure 100% automation coverage within sprint execution
- Partner daily with developers, infrastructure teams, and product owners
- Lead automation for end-to-end AWS-based workflows (events, data, integrations)
- Design and maintain automated quality gates within CI/CD pipelines
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate automation development and promote best practices
- Mentor junior engineers and help transition manual testers into automation roles
- Serve as a technical authority for quality engineering, tooling, and innovation
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on automation engineering experience
- Proven experience designing automation frameworks from scratch
- Strong expertise with Playwright (TypeScript preferred) or similar tools
- Deep understanding of AWS and testing distributed/cloud-native systems
- Strong API automation experience (REST, microservices, event-driven systems such as SQS/Kafka)
- CI/CD integration experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Java, or Python
- Proven experience embedding automation fully in-sprint
- Ability to work independently and own delivery, quality, and deployment
- Executive presence with excellent communication and leadership skills
Nice-to-Have / Pluses
- Experience using AI-powered automation tools (Copilot, Cursor, OpenAI Assistants, MCP tools)
- Experience with contract testing, component testing, visual testing, and accessibility scans
- Testing experience with serverless workflows, queues, triggers, and event chains
- Background in mentoring or training automation engineers
- Experience with architecture documentation, dashboards, and reporting
- Strong passion for innovation, experimentation, and modernization
Equal Opportunity Employer
ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract
