QA Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer

Our client is looking for an automation engineer with extensive software QA technical expertise to join our dynamic QA team. This individual will design, develop, and maintain test scripts and automation frameworks. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Selenium/Python, Playwright/TypeScript, and C#. Along with a deep understanding of UI, API, and database automation environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation for various applications – UI, API, and Databases.
• Review in detail, test plans and test cases to transform them into automation regressions.
• Collaborate with QA team members and other stakeholders to understand test requirements and implement automation.
• Implement best practices for DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth and automated deployments across environments.
• Participate in automation code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and ensuring high code quality and adherence to coding standards.
• Collaborate with Development teams to performance and load test applications and services, providing automation test support.
• Implement best practices for test automation dashboards for modern SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) purposes.
• Stay up to date with new technology trends and frameworks.
• Work with the infrastructure team to ensure automation framework environments are stable, secure, and meet business performance expectations.
• Document automation process – coding guidelines, reviews, check-ins, execution, and test results.

Risk and Compliance

Ensure that all business applications comply with industry regulations and internal security standards, including SOX, PCI-DSS, and other financial sector regulations. Work with the cybersecurity team to ensure applications are secured against potential threats and vulnerabilities. Develop and maintain test documentation, including test scripts, and test data management. Implement processes to ensure traceability of test cases to requirements and automated defect tracking/reporting. Work with Agile/Scrum software development processes to implement version control automation and deployments.

Skills

Automation Top Skills Details Automation Additional Skills & Qualifications Looking for someone with good communication skills and personality that will get along well with the team.

Job Type & Location

This is a contract to hire position based out of Walnut Creek, CA.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $68.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Walnut Creek, CA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jan 19, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe, and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any characteristic protected by law.