Sr. Automation QA Engineer / SDET

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>About BlastPoint</strong></h2> <p>BlastPoint is a B2B data analytics startup located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We give companies the power to engage with customers more effectively by discovering the humans in their data and understanding customer journeys. Serving diverse industries including energy, finance, retail, and transportation, BlastPoint’s Customer Intelligence Platform makes data accessible to business users so they can plan solutions to customer-facing challenges, from encouraging green behavior to managing customers’ financial stress. Founded in 2016 by Carnegie Mellon Alumni, we are a tight-knit, forward-thinking team. </p> <p> </p> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Why You Should Work for Us</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Solve Challenging Problems:</strong> BlastPoint’s platform incorporates cutting-edge approaches to geospatial data, psychographic clustering, data enrichment and a dynamic visualization environment, all at scale. We’re working to break new ground by pulling insights from high-dimensional data. And we’re pushing ourselves to try new and better ways to approach every step of our process.</li> <li><strong>Have An Impact:</strong> Small but mighty, BlastPoint’s growth is due to big companies increasingly trusting us with supporting key decisions using their most sensitive data.  What we do positively impacts the lives of millions of Americans (and beyond).</li> <li><strong>Make Positive Change in the World:</strong> Our solutions reduce paper consumption, help struggling families pay their bills, and promote clean energy.  We also offer our platform for free to nonprofits and civic-oriented organizations.</li> <li><strong>Employee-Focused Culture:</strong> We support the individual needs of our team, offering schedule and work-from-home flexibility, health insurance, 401K, and three weeks of PTO.  We also tailor growth opportunities, from skills training to industry conferences.</li> <li><strong>Equal Opportunity Employer</strong>: BlastPoint is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, ensuring equal employment opportunities for individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.</li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Our Values</strong></h2> <pre style="text-align: center;">Everybody matters<br>We beat expectations<br>Innovation built on a foundation<br>Cards on the table, always<br>"The smartest systems from the most <br>comprehensive data built by the best people”<br><br><br><br></pre> <hr> <p> </p></div><h1><strong>Senior Automation QA Engineer / SDET</strong></h1> <p><strong>Salary 120K - 140K</strong></p> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>BlastPoint is hiring a <strong>Senior Automation QA Engineer / SDET</strong> to help own and build the testing strategy, automation infrastructure, and quality practices for our B2B SaaS platform.</p> <p>This role is for a builder, not just a tester. We need someone who can work in a lean engineering environment, quickly understand the product, identify the highest-risk areas, and create scalable QA systems without needing a large QA organization around them.</p> <p>You will lead the design and implementation of automated testing, regression strategy, functional validation, load and performance testing, CI/CD quality gates, release readiness workflows, and practical QA processes. You should be highly comfortable using AI as a co-engineer to accelerate test development, automation framework design, debugging, documentation, and quality analysis.</p> <h2><strong>Primary Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks for platform, API, integration, functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.</li> <li>Own the regression testing strategy for critical customer-facing workflows.</li> <li>Establish practical load, performance, and reliability testing practices for key platform areas.</li> <li>Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and help define release quality gates.</li> <li>Partner with DevOps on QA environments, automated deployments, test data, and release validation.</li> <li>Use AI tools as a co-engineer to accelerate automation development, test design, defect analysis, documentation, and QA process improvements.</li> <li>Work with engineers to make features more testable from the start.</li> <li>Evaluate and implement testing tools for E2E, API, smoke, regression, performance, and integration testing.</li> <li>Improve bug triage, defect communication, root-cause visibility, and release-readiness reporting.</li> <li>Reduce reliance on manual QA through maintainable automation while preserving targeted exploratory testing.</li> <li>Mentor engineers and future QA contributors on test design, automation standards, and quality best practices.</li> <li>Bring structure, ownership, and practical QA discipline to a fast-moving startup engineering environment.</li> <li>Help mature BlastPoint’s QA culture as the engineering organization scales.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></h2> <ul> <li>6+ years of QA automation, SDET, or software engineering experience.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience building QA processes, automation frameworks, or test infrastructure from the ground up.</li> <li>Strong experience across functional, regression, automated, exploratory, API, integration, and load/performance testing.</li> <li>Strong programming or scripting ability in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or a similar language.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Pytest, k6, JMeter, Locust, or similar.</li> <li>Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar.</li> <li>Comfort working with cloud-hosted SaaS systems; AWS experience preferred.</li> <li>Ability to work across frontend, backend, data, API, and infrastructure concerns.</li> <li>Strong judgment around test coverage, risk, maintainability, speed, and engineering effort.</li> <li>Comfort using AI tools to improve QA speed, coverage, debugging, and automation productivity.</li> <li>Proven ability to operate independently in a lean or startup engineering environment.</li> <li>Strong ownership, communication, technical judgment, and ability to create structure from ambiguity.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Benefits</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Base Salary + Equity </strong>(Ownership in BlastPoint)</li> <li><strong>Home Office:</strong> $500 stipend</li> <li><strong>Health:</strong> Medical, dental, and vision insurance</li> <li><strong>Time Off:</strong> 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, unlimited sick time</li> <li><strong>Retirement:</strong> 401(k)</li> </ul>

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