Fox
Quality Automation Engineer
New York, New York, USA
Sponsorship not specified$114k-$150kDetected 8 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaVue.jsGitAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsDevOpsAccessibilityContent CalendarsSeleniumCypressPlaywrightAppiumTest AutomationManual TestingCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world's leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group.
- We are seeking a Quality Automation Engineer to help modernize Quality Engineering across the Fox News Media Engineering organization.
- The ideal candidate is automation-first, technically strong, AI-forward, and passionate about reducing repetitive manual effort through thoughtful engineering solutions.
Responsibilities
- Define automation strategy and design, build, and maintain scalable frameworks for web, mobile, API, and end-to-end testing across Fox News Media digital products.
- Partner with Engineering to integrate automated testing, quality gates, release validation, and quality metrics into CI/CD pipelines, enabling rapid feedback and confident software delivery.
- Develop reusable automation tools and utilities that improve testing efficiency and streamline regression testing, test data management, quality reporting, defect triage, release readiness, deployment validation, and production verification.
- Perform targeted exploratory and manual testing where human judgment provides the greatest value, particularly for new functionality, editorial workflows, user experience, accessibility, and high-risk releases.
- Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automation frameworks using Playwright, Appium, Selenium, Cypress, or comparable technologies.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering during feature planning and development to improve requirements, acceptance criteria, application testability, observability, shift-left practices, and overall product quality.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including source control, branching strategies, release management, and continuous integration.
- Experience with cloud platforms, containerized environments, and modern application architectures.
- Experience with accessibility, performance, security, or resiliency testing.
- Experience with Nuxt, Vue, Prisma, or comparable frontend and backend technologies.
- Ability to analyze frontend and backend code, API responses, logs, and network traffic to identify quality risks and improve test effectiveness.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) concepts and AI agent integrations for engineering workflows.
Skills
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, or similar languages used for automation development.
Compensation
- Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $114,000.00-150,000.00 annually.
Benefits
- View more detail about FOX Benefits.
- Create quality metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into automation coverage, release health, defect trends, escaped defects, and overall engineering quality.
- Expand automated regression coverage while continuously improving execution speed, reliability, maintainability, and overall test effectiveness.
- Maintain test coverage and test case hygiene in test management systems, including prioritization, traceability, lifecycle status, and automation mapping.
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