QA- Automation Engineer, Cypress

Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster

Fictiv exists
to help product innovators create.

Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv's four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.

What's in it for you?

Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity
Think of all the times you were held back from trying new ideas because you were boxed in by bureaucratic legacy processes or old school tactics. Having a growth mindset is deeply ingrained into our company culture since day 1 so Fictiv is an environment where you have the creative liberty and support of the team to try big bold ideas to achieve our sales and customer goals.
Opportunity To Grow Your Career
There are plenty of jobs out there. The question is whether any of them will help you grow in your career? Will you be challenged by teammates to achieve your potential? Or are they roles that will ask you to do more of what you've already mastered. At Fictiv, you'll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best through their curiosity and passion.

Impact in this Role
We are a small engineering team taking the next step in evolving our systems and infrastructure. As a QA Automation engineer, you will play a pivotal role in our company's product development process to ensure overall product quality through test automation. If you enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems and taking the lead in designing and implementing automated tests that not only elevate product delivery standards but dramatically increase our ability to release quality software quicker and more often, we'd like to meet you.

You will report to QA Lead

What You'll Be Doing

As a Software Developer in Test, you will be responsible for automating and maintaining end-to-end integration tests.

• Work with QA Engineers to identify workflows as automation candidates and build out test scripts.

• Work with other members of the automation team to create integration tests using Cypress and Playwright.

• Perform code reviews for other team members, concentrating on maintaining team standards and best practices.

• Serve as a first point of contact to engineering teams, helping to answer questions about tests and providing automation guidance.

• Monitor and maintain the current library of integration tests, diagnosing and reporting failures to the responsible engineering teams.

Desired traitsPreferred Experience/ Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• Test Automation Experience: 6-8 years automation experience. At least 2-4 years working with Cypress and/or Playwright.

• You are experienced in writing automation tests in Cypress/javascript. You know the best way to use Cypress and how to avoid its pitfalls and determine best practices.

• You can write tests that operate the system via the UI as well as through backend api calls and understand when each strategy should be applied.

• You are an advocate for high-quality, reusable code, concentrating on creating functionality that can be reused across multiple tests.

• You have experience in an Agile development environment.

• You are an effective communicator, able to explain Cypress and automation to people unfamiliar with either.

• You can work collaboratively with a diverse group of people who have strong opinions. You can understand different perspectives while remaining an effective advocate for software quality.

• You are comfortable working independently, taking an assigned task and determining how best to implement it.

• You have experience working with AWS and ERP systems

• Hands-on experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or K6 will be a strong advantage.

• Exposure to enterprise platforms like Salesforce, Arena, or NetSuite is highly desirable.

Interested in learning more?  We look forward to hearing from you soon.

About Fictiv

Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.

We're actively seeking teammates who:

• Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company. 
• Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
• Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
• Have an 'always learning' mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins. 
• Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.