CVS Health

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Company: CVS Health Role: Senior Software Automation Engineer (UI/API) We're building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. ## The Role We are seeking a hands-on Senior Software Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable test automation solutions across web applications, APIs, and cloud-native platforms. This role will focus on creating reliable automation frameworks, improving test coverage, integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, and enabling faster, higher-confidence releases. The ideal candidate combines strong technical automation skills with a solid understanding of software quality engineering principles and collaborative ways of working. This is a highly technical role requiring expertise in modern UI and API automation, cloud environments, and continuous testing practices. You'll design, develop, and maintain scalable UI and API automation frameworks, create automated test suites using Playwright, Python, and PyTest, develop and execute API automation tests for RESTful services, and build reusable test utilities, libraries, and reporting capabilities. You'll integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools, partner closely with developers, product managers, and QE teams to define quality strategies and test coverage, perform root-cause analysis of failures and drive defect prevention, support test execution in AWS-hosted environments, validate application functionality, integrations, and end-to-end workflows, participate in requirements reviews, design discussions, and sprint activities, continuously improve automation reliability, maintainability, and execution efficiency, contribute to quality metrics, reporting, and release readiness assessments, and promote quality engineering best practices across teams. ## What You'll Bring ### Required Qualifications - 3-5 years of experience in software quality engineering or test automation - Strong hands-on experience with Python - Strong experience with Playwright for UI automation - Experience using PyTest and automation framework development - Strong understanding of API testing and REST services - Experience with tools such as Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, or equivalent - Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines - Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar automation platforms - Working knowledge of AWS services and cloud-hosted applications - Experience with test reporting and debugging production-quality systems - Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies - Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills - Strong verbal and written communication skills - Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and QE teams ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience working in healthcare, insurance, or regulated environments - Experience validating distributed systems and microservices architectures - Familiarity with contract testing and service virtualization - Exposure to performance or reliability testing - Experience with container technologies such as Docker - Familiarity with log analysis and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, or CloudWatch - Experience working with test data management and environment management - Knowledge of AI-assisted testing tools and modern QE practices ### Education Bachelor's degree preferred, specialized training, or relevant professional qualification. ### Technical Skills - Automation & Testing: Playwright, Python, PyTest, API Testing, REST Services, Test Framework Development - CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Git, Continuous Testing, Release Validation - Cloud & Infrastructure: CloudWatch, AWS, basic troubleshooting and operational support, environment configuration and deployment validation - Quality Engineering: Risk-Based Testing, Test Strategy, Root Cause Analysis, Defect Prevention, Test Reporting and Metrics ## What Success Looks Like Automated quality gates integrated into delivery pipelines, reliable automation coverage for critical UI and API workflows, faster feedback cycles and reduced manual validation effort, improved release confidence and production quality, and close partnership with engineering and product teams to build quality into the development lifecycle. ## Compensation & Benefits The typical pay range for this role is $83,430.00 - $203,940.00 annually, based on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and more. This is a full-time remote position with anticipated weekly hours of 40. ## About CVS Health Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws. We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on 10/30/2026. --- _This job was found on [bandana.com](https://www.bandana.com/?utm_source=jd_attribution&utm_medium=repost)_