QA Automation Engineer (onsite)

QA Automation Engineer
Full-Time, Exempt
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Salary: Competitive salary + Options

Lumifi is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Automation Engineer to join our organization and establish our foundational QA Team. This is a unique opportunity to build our quality assurance function from the ground up, setting the standards and tone for future QA operations. The successful candidate will design, build, and maintain automated testing solutions across our entire technology stack, ensuring tests are reliable, fast, integrated into CI/CD pipelines, and continuously evolved alongside our codebase. This role partners closely with developers on test strategy and code reviews while collaborating with Product and Development leadership to establish quality gates that enable faster, safer product delivery.
Primary Responsibilities

• Establish QA Foundation: Build Lumifi's QA Team from the ground up, setting strategic vision, operational framework, and quality processes that will serve as the foundation for future team growth and scaling
• Design & Execute Test Strategy: Create comprehensive test plans and design, build, and maintain automated test suites across the full stack (API, UI, Integration, End-to-End) with deep product knowledge for independent feature validation
• Integrate Quality into Development Lifecycle: Partner with Development, DevOps, and Product teams to establish quality gates, integrate automated tests into pipelines, and ensure testability is factored early into acceptance criteria and requirements
• Build Test Infrastructure: Create and manage test data, mocks, and test environments while ensuring reproducible runs locally and in CI/CD pipelines; integrate tests into monitoring, alerting, and collaboration tooling as required.
• Drive Quality Culture & Standards: Document test conventions and tooling standards, mentor others on testability and automation best practices, and set the tone for quality culture across the organization.
• Maintain & Evolve Testing Systems: Continuously maintain and evolve automated test suites with ongoing platform changes, pruning and improving with each release, while tracking and documenting product defects and verification of fixes.
• Scale QA Operations: Create the roadmap for scaling the QA function, including future hiring needs, team structure, and process optimization to support organizational growth

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or 5+ years equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5+ years of software quality assurance and automation engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience establishing or significantly contributing to QA programs and processes
• 5+ years of experience writing and executing both manual and automated test cases
• 5+ years of experience establishing and maintaining automated testing frameworks
• Experience leading QA initiatives and mentoring development teams on quality practices

Technical Skills

• Hands-on coding experience in automation frameworks
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used for test automation
• Experience with API testing tools and methodologies
• Deep understanding of various software testing techniques and methodologies
• Experience leading test efforts across multiple web browsers and operating systems
• Experience writing, executing, and monitoring test suites utilizing various technologies

Professional Skills

• Clear communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities
• Proven ability to drive deadlines and consistently produce high-quality deliverables
• Experience mentoring team members and promoting testing best practices
• Strong organizational and program management skills for establishing new initiatives
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of building processes from the ground up
• Leadership mindset with experience influencing cross-functional teams

Benefits Include:

• Recharge in Style: Need some downtime? We've got your back with self-managed time off to rest, recharge
• Great Healthcare Coverage: Your well-being is a priority for us. That's why we offer exceptional healthcare coverage to keep you in tip-top shape with 80% employer coverage.
• Holistic Well-Being: We're not just about the basics. Dive into our holistic well-being programs that cover everything from family planning to much, much more.
• Fully Stocked Snack Bar for our onsite team
• ​​Comprehensive Professional Development Benefits: Regular training sessions and workshops, personalized career coaching, opportunities for conferences and seminars, and access to leading online learning platforms for self-paced skill development.

All candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer. We are an E-Verify employer.

Lumifi welcomes and encourages diversity in our workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability.

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