Senior QA Automation Engineer

Position Overview

Do you have a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions that delight customers? Are you skilled at using software development tools to assess and maintain the quality of your team’s deliverables? If so, we invite you to join the Autodesk Building Design team, the makers of Autodesk Revit.

We’re looking for an accomplished and highly motivated Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our cross-functional Agile team. Our team is building the next generation of Autodesk Insight, a cloud service that empowers architects and engineers to design energy-efficient buildings using advanced simulation engines and performance analysis data integrated with Autodesk Revit.

As a Senior QA Automation Engineer, you will lead initiatives to improve the quality, stability, reliability, and usability of our software. You will combine your quality assurance mindset with strong technical skills in test automation. You’ll develop and execute test plans, validate the quality of both cloud services and desktop changes, and ensure we identify and address defects early in the development process. You will also collaborate with the larger Building QA organization and product support teams to ensure customer success.

Autodesk is a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. The work we do touches nearly every person on the planet—by creating tools for building design, manufacturing, and even blockbuster movies, we empower innovators to solve problems that matter.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate testing tools and frameworks (commercial, open-source, or proprietary) for project use
• Create and execute test plans—both automated and manual—for new and existing features
• Perform functional, performance, security, load, installation, globalization/localization, scalability, and resiliency testing as needed
• Promote engineering excellence and a quality-first mindset
• Collaborate on implementing, deploying, and maintaining automated testing within CI/CD pipelines
• Support production services in an on-call rotation and act as an escalation contact for service incidents
• Document, manage, and prioritize defects clearly
• Monitor, analyze, and report automated and manual test results and metrics
• Share knowledge, mentor teammates, and actively engage in Agile ceremonies

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in automation testing for web applications and desktop products
• Knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases, debugging, and testing
• Proficiency in JavaScript
• Experience with testing tools such as Cypress, Playwright, TestComplete, K6, Bruno, or similar
• Ability to quickly learn applications, technologies, and processes
• Comfortable working in Linux and Windows environments
• Ability to debug using logs and observability tools like Splunk or Dynatrace

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containerized environments like Docker
• Understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
• Experience with load testing
• Familiarity with tools like Fiddler or other web debugging proxies
• Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment

#AC-1