Hybrid Senior Test Automation Engineer

at Rockwell Automation

• Job title: Senior Test Automation Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Docker, Grafana, GRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, Prometheus, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Mayfield Heights, United States

About the role

• Senior Test Automation Engineer leading system and integration testing for cloud-native Digital Platform. Designing automated tests and frameworks to ensure platform reliability and quality.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the automation strategy for system-level and integration testing across the Digital Platform
• Design and implement scalable automated system tests for critical end-to-end workflows spanning microservices
• Develop reusable testing frameworks, libraries, and templates to standardize automation across teams
• Analyze logs, traces, metrics, and observability signals to identify system defects and performance bottlenecks
• Mentor team members and contribute to building a high-performance Quality Engineering culture
• Create and maintain dashboards for test coverage, reliability metrics, and system health indicators
• Collaborate with DevOps to integrate automated system tests into CI/CD pipelines and expand shift-left testing
• Drive root-cause analysis and support cross-functional debugging of complex distributed issues
• Work closely with architecture, development, and product teams to ensure feature readiness and alignment with quarterly milestones

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• Typically requires 5+ years of experience in system, integration, or platform testing for distributed or cloud-native systems
• Expertise in Python, automated test frameworks (pytest), and building extensible automation libraries
• Deep understanding of gRPC, RESTful APIs, protobuf, and schema-based contract validation
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, MQTT, AMQP, or other message brokers for event-driven architectures
• Strong proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and cloud-native deployment ecosystems
• Experience with logging, tracing, and observability stacks (ELK, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Ability to debug complex microservice interactions using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools
• Experience with industrial automation
• Understanding of tag-based data models, asset/metadata discovery services, or catalog-driven orchestration
• Familiarity with platform interoperability testing, system-level data flow validation, and large-scale distributed testing.

Benefits

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.