BlastPoint
data analytics
Sr.AutomationQAEngineer/SDET
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“Sr. Automation QA Engineer / SDET at BlastPoint. Skills: Automation QA, SDET, SaaS platform. Own and build testing strategy. Build automation infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
accelerate test development; accelerate automation framework design; accelerate debugging; accelerate documentation; accelerate quality analysis; reduce reliance on manual QA; improve bug triage; improve defect communication; improve root-cause visibility; improve release-readiness reporting
Industry & Context.
technical judgment; create structure from ambiguity
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years of QA automation, SDET, or software engineering experience, Demonstrated experience building QA processes, automation frameworks, or test infrastructure from the ground up, experience across functional, regression, automated, exploratory, API, integration, and load/performance testing, 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, Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar, Comfort working with cloud-hosted SaaS, Ability to work across frontend, backend, data, API, and infrastructure concerns, 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, ownership, communication, technical judgment, and ability to create structure from ambiguity
Nice to Have
AWS experience preferred
What You'll Do.
Own and build testing strategy
Build automation infrastructure
Build quality practices
Design automated testing frameworks
Maintain automated testing frameworks
Own regression testing strategy
Establish load testing practices
Establish performance testing practices
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD
Define release quality gates
Accelerate automation development
Accelerate test design
Accelerate defect analysis
Accelerate documentation
Accelerate QA process improvements
Make features testable
Evaluate testing tools
Implement testing tools
Improve defect communication
Improve root-cause visibility
Improve release-readiness reporting
Reduce reliance on manual QA
Preserve exploratory testing
Mentor QA contributors
Bring structure to startup
Bring ownership to startup
Bring QA discipline to startup
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with DevOps on QA environments; Partner with DevOps on automated deployments; Partner with DevOps on test data; Partner with DevOps on release validation; Work with engineers to make features more testable; Mentor engineers on test design; Mentor engineers on automation standards; Mentor engineers on quality best practices; Mentor future QA contributors
Communication Scope
communication
Full Job Description
About BlastPoint BlastPoint is a B2B data analytics startup located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We give companies the power to engage with customers more effectively by discovering the humans in their data and understanding customer journeys. Serving diverse industries including energy, finance, retail, and transportation, BlastPoint’s Customer Intelligence Platform makes data accessible to business users so they can plan solutions to customer-facing challenges, from encouraging green behavior to managing customers’ financial stress. Founded in 2016 by Carnegie Mellon Alumni, we are a tight-knit, forward-thinking team. Why You Should Work for Us Solve Challenging Problems: BlastPoint’s platform incorporates cutting-edge approaches to geospatial data, psychographic clustering, data enrichment and a dynamic visualization environment, all at scale. We’re working to break new ground by pulling insights from high-dimensional data. And we’re pushing ourselves to try new and better ways to approach every step of our process. Have An Impact: Small but mighty, BlastPoint’s growth is due to big companies increasingly trusting us with supporting key decisions using their most sensitive data. What we do positively impacts the lives of millions of Americans (and beyond). Make Positive Change in the World: Our solutions reduce paper consumption, help struggling families pay their bills, and promote clean energy. We also offer our platform for free to nonprofits and civic-oriented organizations. Employee-Focused Culture: We support the individual needs of our team, offering schedule and work-from-home flexibility, health insurance, 401K, and three weeks of PTO. We also tailor growth opportunities, from skills training to industry conferences. Equal Opportunity Employer: BlastPoint is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, ensuring equal employment opportunities for individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, di
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