Role overview

Staff/Senior Test Automation Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Key Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the organization's test automation roadmap.
  • Design scalable, maintainable, and reusable automation frameworks.
  • Establish automation standards, best practices, and governance.
  • Drive shift-left testing practices and quality engineering initiatives.
  • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Mentor engineers and conduct code and framework reviews.
  • Define strategies for performance, load, scalability, and reliability testing.
  • Track automation coverage, defect escape rate, test stability, and release readiness.

Required Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of software testing and quality engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on test automation development experience.
  • Strong programming skills in Java, C#, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated test suites using modern automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman/Newman, REST Assured, and API testing frameworks, with demonstrated expertise in designing scalable and maintainable test automation solutions.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture and distributed systems.
  • Experience with CI/CD practices and Agile development.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with performance testing tools.
  • Experience in SaaS, cloud-native, or distributed systems environments.
  • Experience with accessibility and security testing.

Success Indicators

  • Improve automation coverage across critical workflows.
  • Reduce flaky test rates.
  • Shorten test execution times.
  • Increase confidence through automated quality gates.
  • Mentor engineers and improve quality culture.

At Renesas, you can:

  • Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.

At Renesas, you can:

  • Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure.

At Renesas, you can:

  • Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.
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