Fanatics · 16 hours ago
Senior Engineer, QA Automation - NCF
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$124K/yr - $155K/yr
5+ years expFanatics is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer who will be the first dedicated QA engineer on the team and the technical owner of their quality ecosystem. This role is responsible for defining the strategy and driving adoption of a unified automation and quality platform across the organization, ensuring quality is integrated into the entire development lifecycle.
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Responsibilities
Architect, implement, and maintain a unified QA automation platform that scales across multiple services and engineering teams
Define the long-term quality strategy, including tooling, frameworks, conventions, and automation standards
Evaluate existing team-specific QA solutions and drive the organization-wide migration to the centralized platform
Lead the creation and documentation of QA best practices, covering automation, manual testing, regression suites, contract testing, API/UI testing, and more
Partner closely with engineering and product teams early in the SDLC to ensure appropriate testability, quality requirements, and automation criteria are established from the beginning
Ensure CI/CD pipelines have the proper gates, coverage, and automation hooks that enable reliable deployments
Work with engineering leads to prioritize and deliver quality tooling that meets team-specific and organizational needs
Regularly align with product managers, engineering managers, and technical leaders to ensure quality initiatives support roadmap goals
Serve as the go-to expert and mentor for automated testing, guiding engineers on best practices and reviewing test automation contributions
Build and maintain quality dashboards that give engineering teams and leadership real-time insights into application health, test coverage, defect trends, stability, and release readiness
Define KPIs and quality measurements used to track progress and drive continuous improvement
Communicate risks, gaps, and recommendations clearly and proactively
Qualification
Required
Proven experience establishing a QA automation platform or quality engineering program from the ground up
Deep technical expertise building and scaling automation frameworks (API, UI, performance, contract testing, etc.)
Strong understanding of SDLC, quality fundamentals, and test strategies for modern distributed/event-driven architectures
Experience building quality dashboards using tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Looker, or custom solutions
Hands-on experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills—comfortable influencing and aligning diverse engineering teams with differing priorities
Strong self-starter with the ability to identify gaps, propose solutions, and drive execution with minimal oversight
5+ years of experience developing and supporting production-grade, event-driven web applications
Strong proficiency in Elixir and the Phoenix framework (experience with LiveView is a significant plus)
Solid understanding of distributed systems, message-driven architectures, and data consistency models
Familiarity with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS) and modern CI/CD pipelines
Experience designing and maintaining RESTful or GraphQL APIs
Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for delivering clean, well-tested software
Self-starter with the ability to drive technical initiatives with minimal direction
Preferred
Experience with Elixir/Phoenix or event-driven architectures
Experience setting quality standards in a microservices or service-oriented environment
Experience working with cloud-native systems (AWS preferred)
Company
Fanatics
Fanatics is a sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels. It is a sub-organization of Kynetic.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.9BKey Investors
Clearlake Capital GroupNational Football LeagueAlameda Research
2022-12-06Private Equity· $700M
2022-03-02Private Equity· $1.5B
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $10M
Leadership Team
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Joseph Bozich
Advisor to Chief Executive Officer
Michael Mahan
CEO
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