[Hiring] Senior Automation QA Engineer / SDET @BlastPoint

Role Description

BlastPoint is hiring a Senior Automation QA Engineer / SDET to help own and build the testing strategy, automation infrastructure, and quality practices for our B2B SaaS platform. This role is for a builder, not just a tester. We need someone who can work in a lean engineering environment, quickly understand the product, identify the highest-risk areas, and create scalable QA systems without needing a large QA organization around them.

You will lead the design and implementation of automated testing, regression strategy, functional validation, load and performance testing, CI/CD quality gates, release readiness workflows, and practical QA processes. You should be highly comfortable using AI as a co-engineer to accelerate test development, automation framework design, debugging, documentation, and quality analysis.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks for platform, API, integration, functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Own the regression testing strategy for critical customer-facing workflows.
• Establish practical load, performance, and reliability testing practices for key platform areas.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and help define release quality gates.
• Partner with DevOps on QA environments, automated deployments, test data, and release validation.
• Use AI tools as a co-engineer to accelerate automation development, test design, defect analysis, documentation, and QA process improvements.
• Work with engineers to make features more testable from the start.
• Evaluate and implement testing tools for E2E, API, smoke, regression, performance, and integration testing.
• Improve bug triage, defect communication, root-cause visibility, and release-readiness reporting.
• Reduce reliance on manual QA through maintainable automation while preserving targeted exploratory testing.
• Mentor engineers and future QA contributors on test design, automation standards, and quality best practices.
• Bring structure, ownership, and practical QA discipline to a fast-moving startup engineering environment.
• Help mature BlastPoint’s QA culture as the engineering organization scales.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of QA automation, SDET, or software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience building QA processes, automation frameworks, or test infrastructure from the ground up.
• Strong experience across functional, regression, automated, exploratory, API, integration, and load/performance testing.
• Strong programming or scripting ability in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or a similar language.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Pytest, k6, JMeter, Locust, or similar.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar.
• Comfort working with cloud-hosted SaaS systems; AWS experience preferred.
• Ability to work across frontend, backend, data, API, and infrastructure concerns.
• Strong judgment around test coverage, risk, maintainability, speed, and engineering effort.
• Comfort using AI tools to improve QA speed, coverage, debugging, and automation productivity.
• Proven ability to operate independently in a lean or startup engineering environment.
• Strong ownership, communication, technical judgment, and ability to create structure from ambiguity.

Benefits

• Base Salary + Equity (Ownership in BlastPoint)
• Home Office: $500 stipend
• Health: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Time Off: 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 paid holidays, unlimited sick time
• Retirement: 401(k)