🚀 Test Automation Architect 🚀

At Paystone, we believe quality is engineered, not inspected. We’re looking for a Test Automation Architect to define and scale the frameworks, infrastructure, and practices that enable every squad to ship with confidence.

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role for someone with deep technical expertise (8+ years) who can architect systems, code frameworks, and mentor engineers across teams. You’ll set the technical direction for how Paystone tests at scale, while staying close to the code.

Reporting to: VP, Engineering
Department: Engineering

What You'll Be Doing

Test Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Architect and implement test automation frameworks, tools, and libraries in TypeScript/JavaScript (Jest, Playwright, etc.) used across engineering squads.
• Define the overall test strategy and architecture (unit → integration → E2E → performance) to ensure reliability, scalability, and speed.
• Review system designs and production code with an eye for testability, observability, and maintainability.
• Debug product and automation code, diving into APIs, logs, and distributed systems.

Quality Engineering & Tooling

• Embed test automation and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Drive optimization of test performance, coverage, and reliability; eliminate flaky tests.
• Introduce new tools and approaches (contract testing, mutation testing, visual regression, etc.) when they meaningfully improve product quality.

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure testability is designed in from day one.
• Mentor engineers at all levels: pair programming, workshops, and setting best practices for test automation.
• Act as a technical authority on test automation and quality engineering across the organization.

Planning & Delivery

• Scope and prioritize automation initiatives that balance developer velocity with product risk.
• Provide visibility into test coverage, release readiness, and quality metrics for stakeholders.
• Ensure environments and data are reproducible, version-controlled, and aligned with production.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering and test automation experience in SaaS or distributed systems.
• Proven track record architecting and scaling test automation frameworks in production environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Jest, Playwright (or similar frameworks) and strong TypeScript/JavaScript coding skills.
• Experience integrating automated testing into cloud-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong grasp of advanced testing strategies: TDD, BDD, contract testing, performance, accessibility.
• Solid engineering fundamentals: debugging distributed systems, reasoning about complexity and performance.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; comfortable influencing technical direction across teams.
• Passion for mentorship and building a culture of engineering excellence.
   

👉 As our Test Automation Architect, you’ll combine hands-on coding with strategic technical leadership, shaping how Paystone engineers build, test, and deliver high-quality software at scale.

Let’s raise the bar on reliability — together. 🚀