Empower'sScheduling team powers the platform that welcomes new prospects, transitions them into valued clients, and sustains close relationships between clients and their personal advisors through well-timed calls and meetings. As a Senior Engineer for Automation Quality,you'lldrive day-to-day quality execution across a mission-critical set of microservices and customer-facing workflows.You'llbuild and extend automation frameworks in Java and TypeScript, contribute high-signal Gherkin/Cucumber behavior-driven coverage, and partner closely with engineers, Product, and SRE to reduce risk and improve release confidence. You will also perform occasional manual and exploratory testing tovalidateedge cases and de-risk high-impact launches.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver automation for critical scheduling workflows: create andmaintainreliable automated tests across API, contract,component, and end-to-end paths.

• Expand and improve automation frameworks in Java and TypeScript using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber; raisetest readability, stability, and reuse.

• Contribute to quality strategy for yoursquad:help define the test pyramid, quality gates, and practical definitions ofdone;surface risks early with clear trade-offs.

• Make accessibility part of everyday engineering: implement WCAG 2.2 AA acceptance criteria in test plans; add automated a11y checks (axe-core, Lighthouse) and support manual keyboard/screen-reader validation (NVDA/VoiceOver).

• Build robust test data strategies: design repeatable seeding, isolation, and environment setup practices that keep suites deterministic and reduce flakiness.

• Improve CI/CD reliability: helpoptimizesuite runtime via parallelization, stabilize flaky tests, and ensure artifacts (screenshots, videos, logs) are captured for fast debugging.

• Partner on non-functional quality: contribute performance/load checks (JMeter or k6), basic resiliency validations, and monitoring/synthetic checks where applicable.

• Manual and exploratory testing when needed: write charters,validatecomplex scenarios, reproduce tricky issues, and support UAT/bug bashes for major launches.

• Influence through example:participatein test design reviews, pair with engineers, document patterns/anti-patterns, and advocate for pragmatic quality improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5-8+ years in software quality and test automation for distributed systems (microservices, event-driven systems, APIs), withdemonstratedownership of significant automation areas.

• Languages & frameworks: Strong Java and/or TypeScriptproficiency; hands-on experience with Gherkin/Cucumber and Selenium WebDriver.

• API &contract testing: Experience testing REST/JSON services; familiarity with mocks/stubs, service virtualization, and contract testing (Pact or equivalent).

• Accessibility: Working knowledge of WCAG and practical experience using automated a11y tools (axe-core, Lighthouse); familiarity with manual keyboard and screen-reader testing (NVDA and/orVoiceOver).

• Test design and diagnosis: Strong fundamentals (boundary/state-based testing, data-driven testing, and results analysis); proven ability to debug flaky failures across UI, API, and environment layers.

• Environments: Comfortable working across local, staging, and CI environments; familiarity with Kubernetes-based deployments or ephemeral environments is a plus.

• Communication: Clear, actionable defect reporting and technical writing; ability to align with engineers and stakeholders on scope, risk, and release readiness.

Nice-to-Haves

• Resilience testing, trace-driven testing, synthetic monitoring, or chaos-style validation approaches.

• Experience with Microsoft ecosystem and CRM integrations (Microsoft Graph API, Microsoft Bookings, Microsoft RBAC, Salesforce).

• Background in financial services or other regulated industries.

• Passionfor a11yadvocacy and collaboration with Design/UX to embed inclusivecomponentand workflow patterns.