Test Automation Engineer

Join Our Team at RoonCyber and Help Shape the Future of Runtime CNAPP + CADR

Location: Remote (US-based)

Type: Full-time

Company Stage: Early-stage, venture-backed software startup

Reports To: Product Management

Focus: Automation-first testing, API-first regression coverage, selective UI automation, and clear visibility into test coverage and results

Role Overview

At RoonCyber we are building a next-generation Cloud Application Detection & Response (CADR) and Runtime CNAPP platform focused on real-time attack detection, correlation, and response across cloud and containerized environments.

The Test Automation Engineer builds automated regression coverage for core product workflows using API-first testing plus selective UI automation. This role collaborates tightly with Product and Engineering to translate requirements and acceptance criteria into executable tests, publish clear coverage reporting, and support release readiness through meaningful test visibility.

Core Responsibilities

Test Planning and Acceptance Criteria Translation

• Partner directly with Product to convert acceptance criteria into testable scenarios
• Create lightweight test plans per epic that define scope, risk areas, and success conditions
• Identify missing edge cases and clarify ambiguous requirements early

API-First Automation

• Build and maintain a stable automation suite that validates core platform and product behaviors through service interfaces and APIs
• Create reusable automation utilities for authentication, environment setup, test data creation, and deterministic cleanup
• Validate backward compatibility and contract expectations as APIs evolve

Targeted UI Automation

• Automate the highest-value user journeys that frequently regress, emphasizing stable selectors, deterministic test data, and maintainable patterns
• Ensure UI automation complements (not replaces) strong API coverage

Visibility and Communication

• Make test coverage and results easy to consume through CI checks, dashboards, and release readiness summaries
• Demo coverage improvements and communicate failures with clear reproduction steps and impact assessment

Quality Foundations

• Help define baseline QA processes: definition of done, regression expectations, and release gating
• Establish a practical approach to “testable acceptance criteria” so the team can build and ship with confidence

What You’ll Work With

• API testing and automation frameworks you help select and evolve
• UI automation tooling (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar)
• CI pipelines and test reporting dashboards
• Cloud and Kubernetes concepts, enough to debug environment-dependent failures (AWS and K8 foundations)

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in test automation or software engineering with substantial test ownership
• Strong automation skills in TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java
• Comfortable working directly with APIs programmatically (auth, contracts, pagination, rate limits)
• Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes concepts, enough to debug environment-dependent failures
• Strong communication with Product and Engineering, especially around making requirements testable

Nice-to-Haves

• Playwright or Cypress experience
• Contract testing experience (OpenAPI schema validation, Pact, etc.)

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• Experience testing async or event-driven systems and eventual consistency patterns
• Security domain experience

Mindset & Traits

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Self-starter who can build coverage with limited structure in place
• Clear communicator who can explain automation results to Product and Engineering
• Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment

Questions You Must Be Able to Answer and Describe

Before submitting your resume, please review the questions below.

If you cannot confidently answer most of these from real production experience, this role is likely not a good fit.

• Have you built an automation suite that gates releases and stays stable as the product evolves?
• Can you design a test data strategy for complex systems so tests remain repeatable and low-flake?
• Have you created meaningful coverage reporting and communicated results through dashboards, CI checks, or demos?
• Can you selectively automate UI workflows without building a brittle end-to-end suite that constantly breaks?
• Have you partnered with a Product Manager to translate acceptance criteria into testable, automated checks and test plans?

Why Join Us

• Own automated test coverage and quality visibility for a cloud-scale security platform
• Work on meaningful workflows with real customers and real data
• High ownership and visible impact across Product and Engineering
• Competitive compensation + equity

As a fully remote company, we’re looking for candidates who take initiative, communicate proactively, and are comfortable working independently while maintaining close overlap with US Eastern Time hours.