Senior Test Automation Engineer

Overview

BTVK Advisory is a leading advisory firm whose specialized professionals guide clients through an ever-changing business world, helping them win now and anticipate tomorrow. BTVK Advisory, and its affiliated entities, have operations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. BTVK Advisory’s ultimate parent entity, Baker Tilly US, LLP, is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion.

Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law.

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Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Assess existing manual test suites and build a prioritized automation roadmap based on business risk, execution frequency, stability, and maintenance value.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Playwright and TypeScript for front-end, integration, end-to-end, and API testing.
• Enhance and maintain the automation framework, including reusable components, fixtures, reporting, parallel execution, environment configuration, and failure diagnostics.
• Develop and execute automated tests for Angular and .NET applications, including backend and API testing where appropriate.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines and maintain test assets within application source code repositories.
• Establish and enforce automation standards, including test design, coding practices, assertions, selectors, documentation, and code reviews.
• Improve test reliability by resolving flaky tests, environment issues, timing dependencies, and test data challenges using SQL, APIs, scripts, and fixtures.
• Analyze test failures to identify application defects, automation issues, environment problems, and data-related issues while supporting risk-based release testing.
• Collaborate with developers, product teams, and delivery leaders to improve testability, refine acceptance criteria, and mentor junior automation engineers.
• Leverage AI-powered coding tools such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to accelerate automation development while validating AI-generated code for quality, security, and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in test automation, software development, or SDET; experience in a professional services environment is preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience in Playwright automation and TypeScript development for modern web applications.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and enhancing scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks beyond individual test scripts.
• Experience developing automated UI, integration, end-to-end, and API tests, with a solid understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, HTML, CSS selectors, browser behavior, and asynchronous execution.
• Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, with proficiency in Git, branching strategies, pull requests, and code review practices.
• Strong SQL skills with experience in test data creation, validation, cleanup, and management using SQL, APIs, scripts, or test fixtures.
• Ability to troubleshoot flaky or intermittent test failures using logs, traces, screenshots, network analysis, videos, and other diagnostic tools while applying risk-based testing practices.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-powered coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) responsibly, ensuring the quality, security, and maintainability of generated code.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams and influence engineering best practices.
• Preferred experience with Angular, .NET, Azure DevOps, accessibility, visual regression, performance or contract testing, reusable testing utilities, and consulting or managed services environments.