Automation Engineer - SDET
First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026.
Job description:
Tilda Research is looking for an experienced Automation Engineer / SDET with 4–10 years of experience to help improve the quality, reliability, and speed of our software delivery.
We’re looking for someone who is highly technical, hands-on, and experienced in building automation frameworks—not simply using existing ones. This person will also actively use AI-assisted engineering and testing tools to improve automation, test coverage, troubleshooting, and overall QA efficiency.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for web applications, APIs, and backend services.
- Develop automated functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end testing using tools such as WebdriverIO, Playwright, and Pytest.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, improving test coverage, release quality, and deployment confidence.
- Use AI tools to accelerate test creation, identify edge cases, analyze failures, debug automation, and reduce repetitive QA work.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Product to identify quality risks, troubleshoot complex issues, and ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle.
- Continuously improve test reliability, execution speed, automation coverage, and engineering productivity.
What We're Looking For:
- 4–10 years of experience as an Automation Engineer, SDET, QA Automation Engineer, or similar role.
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python.
- Hands-on experience with WebdriverIO, Playwright, Pytest, or similar modern automation frameworks.
- Proven experience designing and building automation frameworks from the ground up.
- Strong experience with API testing and automation.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development/testing tools to improve automation, testing, debugging, or engineering productivity.
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
AI & Automation:
We expect our engineers to actively use AI as part of their day-to-day work. Experience with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar AI development tools is highly valued.
You Should Be Comfortable Using AI To:
- Create and improve automated tests.
- Generate test scenarios and identify edge cases.
- Analyze logs and troubleshoot failures.
- Debug and maintain automation.
- Generate test data.
- Identify gaps in test coverage.
- Automate repetitive QA workflows.
We are looking for someone who goes beyond simply using AI as a chatbot and can demonstrate how they use it to engineer, test, and ship better software faster.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience testing modern SaaS applications.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud environments.
- Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with performance, security, or reliability testing.
- Experience testing AI-powered applications, LLM features, or agentic workflows.
- Experience with healthcare, clinical research, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
- Experience in a startup or high-growth technology environment.
What Makes You a Strong Fit:
You’ll likely thrive at Tilda if you enjoy building automation rather than performing repetitive manual testing, can write production-quality code, actively use AI to improve your work, and enjoy solving complex technical problems in a fast-moving environment.
Skills
CI / CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, JavaScript, Jenkins, Playwright, Python, TypeScript, WebdriverIO, pytest