Sitero is an emerging leader in clinical services and technology solutions for the life sciences industry. We deliver innovative, technology-enabled solutions that help our clients advance clinical research while maintaining the highest standards of quality, compliance, and patient safety. Our teams support software platforms across the clinical trial lifecycle, operating within highly regulated environments where traceability and audit readiness are non-negotiable.
ROLE SUMMARY
We are looking for a Mid to Sr. level Automation Engineer with deep expertise in Playwright and TypeScript to embed within established product teams and make an immediate impact. This role serves as the automation subject matter expert (SME) for assigned products, partnering with developers, product owners, quality engineers, and business stakeholders to drive quality and release readiness.
This is a hands-on technical position. The right candidate can rapidly onboard into existing product contexts, contribute to ongoing automation initiatives from day one, and help elevate automation practices across the organization. Experience in regulated software environments is a meaningful differentiator for this role.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Automation Development and Test Engineering
- Design, develop, maintain, and extend automated test solutions using Playwright and TypeScript across UI, API, integration, and end-to-end workflows.
- Contribute to the enterprise automation framework, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
- Build and maintain reusable Page Object Models, fixtures, helper libraries, and shared framework components.
- Design and execute robust API tests covering authentication, integration, authorization, business rules, error handling, and contract validation.
- Design, develop, and execute automated performance, load, stress, and scalability tests to validate application responsiveness, throughput, and stability under expected and peak workloads.
- Analyze performance test results to identify bottlenecks across the application, APIs, databases, and infrastructure, partnering with engineering teams to drive optimization.
- Develop reusable performance test scripts and datasets that can be executed repeatedly as part of release validation activities.
- Develop integration tests that validate data flows across applications, services, databases, and third-party interfaces.
- Troubleshoot complex automation failures, including flaky tests, synchronization issues, environmental inconsistencies, and pipeline execution problems.
- Optimize test execution through parallelization, smart test data strategies, and targeted framework improvements.
- Identify coverage gaps and proactively expand automation for critical workflows and release risk areas.
Product Team SME and Collaboration
- Serve as the automation SME for assigned product teams, owning the end-to-end automation strategy for those products aligned with companywide processes and frameworks.
- Acquire product domain knowledge quickly and contribute to quality initiatives with minimal ramp-up time.
- Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Validation Engineers throughout the SDLC to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, story reviews, and release planning.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to team members on automation design, framework standards, and testing practices.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive, technically grounded feedback.
- Influence automation strategy and advocate for quality-focused engineering practices at the team and organizational level.
CI/CD Integration and DevOps
- Maintain and support automated test execution within CI/CD pipelines, with a primary focus on GitLab CI.
- Support automated execution across development, validation (VAL), UAT, and production environments.
- Analyze pipeline failures and collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to identify root causes and drive resolution.
- Contribute to continuous testing strategies that improve release confidence and reduce deployment risk.
- Integrate automated performance testing into CI/CD pipelines where appropriate, ensuring performance regressions are identified early in the development lifecycle.
- Monitor performance trends across releases and report significant deviations from established baselines.
Quality, Validation, and Compliance
- Ensure all automation activities comply with applicable GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, CSV, and SDLC validation requirements.
- Maintain traceability between business requirements, user stories, automated test cases, and execution results.
- Support internal and external audits by ensuring validation evidence is complete, accurate, and inspection-ready.
- Adhere to established SOPs, SDLC standards, and coding conventions.
Continuous Improvement
- Evaluate automation effectiveness and recommend improvements to increase efficiency, coverage, and reliability.
- Establish and maintain performance baselines, identifying opportunities to improve application responsiveness, scalability, and reliability.
- Apply risk-based testing principles to prioritize automation investments against release timelines.
- Drive improvement initiatives related to automation frameworks, tooling, and quality engineering practices.
- Stay current with advances in Playwright, TypeScript, and testing technology; bring relevant innovations back to the team.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, Life Sciences, or a related discipline.
Required
- 5+ years of software test automation experience in a professional engineering environment.
- 2+ years of hands-on production experience writing automated tests with Playwright and TypeScript.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to and extending enterprise-grade automation frameworks.
- Strong experience designing and executing automated API tests across REST endpoints, auth mechanisms, and service integrations.
- Experience designing and executing performance and load tests using industry-standard performance testing tools.
- Ability to analyze performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and communicate optimization recommendations to development teams.
- Experience with modern performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust, including integration into CI/CD pipelines and automated performance regression testing.
- Experience developing integration tests that validate cross-service and cross-module data flows.
- Practical experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines; GitLab CI preferred.
- Experience working within Git-based workflows, including branching strategies, pull requests, and peer code review.
- Track record of working as an embedded engineer within Agile product teams.
Preferred
- Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, k6, Gatling, Locust, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, or Azure Application Insights.
- Experience in a regulated pharmaceutical, biotech, clinical research, or life sciences software environment.
- Working knowledge of GxP principles, 21 CFR Part 11, and Computer System Validation (CSV) requirements as they apply to software testing.
- Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, including Gherkin authoring and TypeScript step definition implementation.
- Familiarity with ALM/test management platforms including GitLab, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
- Exposure to clinical software platforms such as EDC, CTMS, RTSM, eCOA, or related systems.
- Experience supporting cloud-based applications and distributed system architectures.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Advanced TypeScript proficiency with a strong grasp of modern software development and automation design patterns.
- Playwright experience including custom fixtures, reporters, API testing, parallel execution, and framework extension.
- Deep understanding of UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, end-to-end, performance, load, stress, and scalability testing methodologies.
- Experience interpreting application performance metrics, resource utilization, response times, throughput, latency, and error rates to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Proven ability to debug complex test failures, perform root-cause analysis, and drive resolution across technical layers.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles, pipeline architecture, and continuous testing practices.
- Experience building maintainable, reusable, and scalable automation solutions in team-based codebases.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
- Contributes independently and meaningfully from an early stage.
- Strong analytical thinking and structured approach to problem-solving.
- Clear communicator; able to convey technical findings and risk to both engineering and business audiences.
- Comfortable balancing technical rigor with practical delivery timelines.
- High accountability; manages multiple concurrent priorities without losing quality or throughput.
- Demonstrated ability to influence team-level engineering practices and raise the quality bar.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Sitero offers a competitive compensation package including a base salary commensurate with experience, performance-based incentives, paid time off, medical and dental coverage, retirement savings plans, and ongoing professional development support.
WORK EXPECTATIONS
- Standard 40-hour work week, Monday through Friday.
- Additional hours may be required around critical release milestones or audit events.
- Occasional schedule flexibility to support collaboration with globally distributed teams.
