Medline is looking for a seasoned Software Engineer – Test Automation (QA) to drive the future of test engineering by contributing to core automation initiatives and enabling frameworks, tools, and platforms that accelerate quality across their teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, with deep expertise in test automation.
- Strong programming skills in Java (Spring Boot stack) and JavaScript/TypeScript (React/Next.js).
- Experience building automation frameworks using JUnit/TestNG, Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, etc.
- Proficiency in evaluating and implementing tools for test case management, test execution, and reporting.
- Demonstrated success with CI/CD-integrated testing using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and testing in cloud-native environments (preferably Azure).
- Familiarity with contract testing, mocking services, and management strategies.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain reusable automation frameworks for backend (API/microservices) and frontend (UI) testing.
- Research, evaluate, and introduce modern test automation tools (e.g., low-code/no-code, model-based testing, AI-powered test platforms).
- Lead proofs-of-concept (PoCs) for new tools and frameworks to assess fit for the organization, enable and simplify shift-left practices within teams.
- Contribute to shared quality tooling and pipelines to be used across teams (test orchestration, data setup, mocks/stubs, parallelization, etc.).
- Collaborate with Digital Framework, platform, DevOps, and other engineering teams to shift quality left and define testability patterns.
- Provide leadership in setting up automation standards, coding guidelines, and governance models for cross-team reuse.
- Lead teams to ensure maximum automation coverage for functionality and be accountable for ensuring QA practices are aligned to the goal of maximum quality.
Other
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
- Actively mentor junior engineers and guide teams in adopting quality engineering best practices.
- Accountable for overall QA deliverables, practices, and standards within teams and for compliance with functional, integration, regression and performance/load testing (NFR testing) goals for all systems and projects worked on by the teams.
- Collaborate with a dynamic and innovative team in a supportive culture.
- Must be willing to work in Northbrook, IL
