Automation Engineer I
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Junior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (we use Concourse) and integrating automated tests into them.
- Experience with TestRail or similar test-management/reporting integrations.
- Experience with backend testing against a Django/Python monolith or Go/Kotlin services.
- Interest in AI-assisted testing tooling (e.g., self-healing tests, LLM-assisted authoring).
- Prior experience as a QA Analyst or SDET.
Full description
Who we are:
At SpotHero, we work as a team to empower people to get everywhere, easier! We’re rapidly growing with the mission of bringing the parking industry into the future through technology. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero mobile app and website to reserve convenient, affordable parking in advance, on-the-go or through their connected cars, and parking companies rely on us to help them reach new customers while optimizing their business. We connect the dots with cutting-edge technology, delivering value to both sides of this exciting, evolving marketplace. We’ve been quite busy, take a peek at some of our recent announcements.
Automation Engineer at SpotHero:
SpotHero is seeking an Automation Engineer to join one of our engineering teams within the Quality Guild. This role blends hands-on manual testing with the writing and long-term maintenance of automated test suites, working shoulder-to-shoulder with backend, frontend, and mobile engineers to keep our releases fast and reliable as SpotHero scales.
As an Automation Engineer, you'll be embedded in a team, participating in all of its ceremonies and reporting into that teams’ structure, while also staying closely connected to our central Automation team and the broader Quality Guild. You'll split your time between manual testing and building/maintaining automated coverage.
What You'll Do
- Own and maintain all automated tests belonging to your team, keeping them consistently green and remediating failures quickly in collaboration with team members.
- Identify automation opportunities as new functionality ships, and write new end-to-end and integration tests in Playwright to cover it.
- Perform manual QA testing alongside automation work; exploratory testing, edge-case discovery, and release validation with backend and frontend engineers.
- Represent automation work as planned work in Jira/Scrum, keeping it visible alongside the rest of the team's sprint commitments.
- Communicate the state of your team's test coverage regularly to your team, the Quality Guild, and the Automation team, with a documented, historical view of progress.
- Contribute to our shared automation dashboards and monthly Automation Test Review, helping track test-suite growth, flaky/failing tests, and coverage trends over time.
- Give feedback to the central Automation team on the platforms, tooling, and processes SDETs maintain, surfacing bottlenecks you hit in day-to-day work.
- Partner with the Automation team on emerging tooling, such as CI-integrated continuous testing pipelines and AI-assisted test maintenance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Test Automation