Senior Test Automation Engineer

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility -our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how thework we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to lead and scale system and integration testing for our cloudnative Digital Platform powering industrial automation services. This role requires expertise in test automation, distributed systems validation, and platformlevel reliability engineering.

As a senior member of the team, you will drive the creation of reusable testing frameworks, accelerate automation maturity, and contribute to the overall system quality of the platform.

• Define and evolve the automation strategy for systemlevel and integration testing across the Digital Platform
• Design and implement scalable automated system tests for critical endtoend workflows spanning microservices
• Develop reusable testing frameworks, libraries, and templates to standardize automation across teams
• Analyze logs, traces, metrics, and observability signals to identify system defects and performance bottlenecks
• Mentor team members and contribute to building a highperformance Quality Engineering culture
• Create and maintain dashboards for test coverage, reliability metrics, and system health indicators
• Collaborate with DevOps to integrate automated system tests into CI/CD pipelines and expand shiftleft testing
• Drive rootcause analysis and support cross-functional debugging of complex distributed issues
• Work closely with architecture, development, and product teams to ensure feature readiness and alignment with quarterly milestones

• Bachelor's Degree or dquivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

• Typically requires 5+ years of experience in system, integration, or platform testing for distributed or cloud-native systems
• Expertise in Python, automated test frameworks (pytest), and building extensible automation libraries
• Deep understanding of gRPC, RESTful APIs, protobuf, and schemabased contract validation
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, MQTT, AMQP, or other message brokers for event-driven architectures
• Strong proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and cloud-native deployment ecosystems
• Experience with logging, tracing, and observability stacks (ELK, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Ability to debug complex microservice interactions using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools
• Experience with industrial automation
• Understanding of tag-based data models, asset/metadata discovery services, or catalog-driven orchestration
• Familiarity with platform interoperability testing, system-level data flow validation, and large-scale distributed testing

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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