QA Automation Engineer II

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• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
• Wellbeing programs including Physical & Mental wellness
  
  

Position Overview

The QA Automation Engineer II is responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated testing solutions to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of enterprise software systems.

Working as part of a cross-functional Agile product team, this role focuses on validating applications, APIs, workflows, integrations, and system outputs across cloud-native platforms. The position leverages Microsoft Azure tooling, Playwright, and modern automation frameworks to implement scalable, repeatable testing strategies that improve release confidence and reduce production defects.

This role plays a critical part in ensuring systems meet defined functional, performance, and quality standards by implementing automated regression testing, integration validation, and end-to-end testing. The QA Automation Engineer II contributes to continuous improvement of testing practices and supports the delivery of stable, high-quality digital solutions across the enterprise.

Required Qualifications

Level of Education and Discipline - Bachelors degree typically within a technical subject such as computer science.

Experience -

• 5 years of experience in software quality assurance with a strong emphasis on automation.
• Experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks for web-based and API-driven applications
• Experience working within Agile software development environments.
• Experience testing cloud-native applications deployed in Microsoft Azure or similar cloud environments.
  
  

Interpersonal Skills - leadership, interactions, communication, influence Excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborate openly within a fast-moving team

Other Skills

• Hands-on experience with Playwright for automated UI and end-to-end testing.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs and service-based architectures.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native application patterns.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Understanding of test design techniques, regression strategies, and defect lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools to support defect diagnosis and validation.
• Basic understanding of performance and load testing concepts.
• Experience with JMeter.
  
  

Preferred Experience -

• Familiarity with behavior-driven development (BDD) or test-driven development (TDD) practices.
• Experience contributing to quality metrics dashboards and reporting frameworks.
  
  

Dimension

This role directly impacts the stability, reliability, and user confidence of enterprise software platforms. The QA Automation Engineer II contributes to reducing production defects, improving release predictability, and strengthening overall engineering quality standards.

Current McCormick employees who meet these qualifications and are interested in pursuing this position must notify their direct supervisor and their unit HR representative prior to applying.

First consideration will be given to employees who have been displaced from their jobs for positions with the same grade or lower. If there are no qualified candidates, all other employees will then be considered. No displaced employee will receive preferential consideration for a promotional opportunity.McCormick may recruit external candidates concurrently in order to expedite the recruitment process. Qualified internal candidates submitting bids within the first ten (10) days of the job being posted will be considered before external candidates. Internal bids received after the tenth (10th) day will be considered along with external candidates. It is the policy of McCormick and Company to select and promote for all positions without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.