Catalant’s Expert Marketplace platform has re-invented the $250 billion management consulting industry by connecting business leaders with world class independent consultants on-demand. With backing from some of the world’s top venture capital firms, Catalant is breaking records every quarter and doubling down on our growth strategy.

As we continue to bolster our industry-leading product, we are growing the team that will take Catalant to the next level, investing across the board in our people and products.

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you’ll work within agile, cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-quality software. You will lead automation efforts by streamlining the test automation process- building, maintaining, and troubleshooting robust automation coverage for our frontend and backend. You will collaborate with our high-caliber team on requirements and design, providing best practices through mentoring, code reviews, and knowledge transfers. This position requires strong automation skills and offers a unique opportunity to be a central part of our shift to automating regression testing. You will help the team evolve to a more automation-centric organization as our product rapidly evolves to provide business values to the customers.

The ideal candidate will be able to work with a complex enterprise cloud solution to deliver quality releases by providing automation coverage, work with DevOps CI/CD, and being able to run a large scale, cross-functional automation frameworks covering frontend/UI, backend, API, as well as performance. While being challenged to create innovative solutions and work with other amazing developers, architects, to help evolve our automation framework and strategy on the next generation of our products.

What you'll do:

• Develop and generate test cases, scripts, plans (manual and automated) for Catalant products.
• Be a champion for automation-focused QA culture, working with our Product, Design, and Engineering teams to drive automation and CI/CD tools and frameworks
• Develop reliable and maintainable scripts while finding creative and scalable solutions to challenging problems
• Test and peer review code for technical accuracy, standards, and functional compliance to the design
• Work in small engineering groups with a strong impetus to innovate, drive end-to-end ownership, and meet critical business goalsCollaborate and work with distributed teams in the process of being exposed to a range of technologies, best practices, and solution patterns
• Troubleshoot, and conduct root cause analysis of the product defects or automation framework optimizations
• Provide feedback on current software quality and customer experience of new and existing features
• Display great attitude and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high pressure, agile environment
• Work independently and in tandem with other development team members with various skills, technologies, and backgrounds
• Manage multiple priorities and projects, taking initiative and solving problems creatively and positively
• Provide technical assistance, best practices, and training to other team members or departments
• Learn new technologies and skills that benefit the team, product, and company

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years experience in Quality Assurance with an increased level of responsibilities
• 3+ years with frontend and/or backend automation framework
• Strategic understanding of automation tools and frameworks (Selenium / WD)
• Hands-on ability to implement frameworks and automated regression tests in cloud environments
• Demonstrated experience testing SaaS applications, web service APIs, and mobile applications
• Demonstrated experience synthesizing, summarizing, and providing reporting on project status, application health, and automation defect trends. 
• Experience mentoring employees to grow their relevant skillset and make important contributions to overall company goals
• Experience working in an Agile development environment (Scrum, SAFe, or similar)
• Strong knowledge in SQA methodology and different test types
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle
• Working experience with GitHub, Jira, Jenkins
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to translate details to non-technical peers
• Proficiency with IDE-based development
• Experience working with source code management suites
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Additional technology/experience considered a plus:

• Selenium WD, CodeceptJS, K6
• GIT, GITHUB
• Linux, MAC OS
• Nodejs, Docker, Jenkins
• Grafana, Influx, Mysql, ElasticSearch, MongoDB

Benefits 

At Catalant, we strive to offer a work environment where employees can bring however much of their full, authentic self as they desire. With this in mind, we are happy to offer our employees: 

- Flexible paid time off

- 13 company holidays + an All Company wellness day off each quarter

- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave regardless of how you choose to grow your family

- Generous health insurance coverage as well as optional vision and dental

- 401k to save for retirement

- Pre-tax commuter and flexible spending accounts

- A lifestyle spending account to be used towards cell phone, internet, commuting, and learning & development 

- Wellness stipend for your mental, emotional, or physical wellbeing needs and support

- Work from Home stipend

- Catalant sponsored membership to Calm 

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Catalant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Catalant makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business objectives and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, qualified physical or mental disability, genetic condition or predisposition, or any other status protected by law. All Catalant employees are prohibited from engaging in any form of discrimination.

We have a flexible hybrid work model, where employees local to our Boston headquarters come into our office on a flexible basis, and other employees are fully remote. We are hiring and conducting interviews and onboarding either virtually or in person if local to Boston, depending on what makes most sense based on the specific candidate and new hire. Talk to our People Team to learn more!