Sr. Automation QA Engineer / SDET

About the role

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.