[Remote] Senior Engineer, QA Automation - NCF

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics 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. 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 Skills • 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 • 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 Overview • Fanatics is a sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels. It is a sub-organization of Kynetic. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Fanatics has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job