Senior Automation Engineer (Playwright)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2026.
About Kindsight:
Kindsight builds technology that helps fundraisers make a difference. For decades, Kindsight has supported the education, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors with fundraising tools and the largest charitable giving database on the market. And as the giving sector evolves, so does Kindsight. As the leader in fundraising intelligence, Kindsight leverages real-time data and AI to help thousands of organizations around the world identify, manage, and engage with donors - at any scale. With purpose-built CRMs that corral all of that donor information and campaign tracking into one place, donor prospect research tools that offer proactive insights and real-time donor intel, and generative AI that creates personalized, meaningful content drafts at scale, Kindsight’s product suite is truly changing the game for donor fundraising.
Position Summary:
The Senior Automation Engineer will play a pivotal role in modernizing the quality-engineering foundation for Ascend, Kindsight’s flagship Salesforce second-generation managed package. This is a highly technical, code-first role for an engineer who can take ownership of a large Playwright automation repository, simplify and refactor it, and make automated testing faster, more reliable, and easier for engineering teams to use.
The immediate mandate is to deliver visible improvements within the first several months: reduce duplication and code bloat, introduce scalable design patterns, enable selective and parallel test execution, and strengthen integration with CI/CD. Longer term, this engineer will help raise automation practices across the Ascend team, support a shift-left quality model, and shape how testing is built into the product-development lifecycle.
What You’ll Do:
Own, maintain, and scale the Playwright-based end-to-end automation framework for Ascend.
Refactor and optimize a large existing test repository to improve speed, reliability, readability, reuse, and maintainability.
Design a modular test architecture that reduces copy-and-paste code and applies sound software-design and clean-code principles.
Enable tests to run selectively and in parallel through command-line parameters, tagging, grouping, sharding, or comparable approaches.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD workflows so appropriate smoke, regression, and feature suites can run efficiently throughout the release lifecycle.
Build and maintain automation that runs in containerized environments and validates Salesforce managed-package functionality across relevant org and deployment scenarios.
Partner with developers to clarify the right balance among unit, component, integration, feature, smoke, and end-to-end testing, helping teams shift quality left.
Improve developer experience through better tooling, diagnostics, reporting, dashboards, documentation, and workflows.
Provide technical coaching and practical guidance to QA engineers, helping the team adopt stronger coding, automation, and repository-management practices.
Collaborate closely with Quality Assurance leadership, Engineering leadership, developers, product partners, and other stakeholders while independently driving the technical roadmap for automation.
What We’re Looking For:
You are an automation engineer who approaches quality engineering as a software-development discipline.
You enjoy untangling large codebases, improving performance, eliminating duplication, and building frameworks that other engineers can use confidently.
You can move quickly without sacrificing maintainability, communicate your technical reasoning clearly, and bring enough experience to influence practices across a team.
Required Experience & Skills
Compensation Range: $110,000-$130,000 OTE annually, based on experience, market benchmarks and role complexity. We aim to offer fair, competitive pay that reflects your skills and the market.
This advertised position is for an existing vacancy at Kindsight. At Kindsight, we’re proud to be a place where everyone belongs and has an equal opportunity to contribute, thrive and grow. We hire based on skills, potential, and impact, and we believe our differences fuel innovation. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken or veteran status. We’re building a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to do meaningful work and make a difference.
We leverage artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support certain aspects of our recruitment process. These tools may help with resume screening, drafting job descriptions, creating interview questions and occasionally identifying potential candidates. All hiring decisions are made by our people, not AI. Our intent is to use AI thoughtfully to streamline administrative tasks, improve the candidate experience and support fair, unbiased hiring practices consistent with industry standards .