QE Automation Engineer

About Carvana

“We believe CVNA is in the early stages of becoming the next U.S. retail category killer.” 

– Stephens Investment Bank, Analyst Report, Sept. 2024

Building leading-edge technology has been at the core of Carvana’s strategy since our founding, driving us to become the 3rd fastest company in history to organically reach the Fortune 500 following only Amazon and Google. Today, we remain founder-led and as ambitious as ever. In 2025, we have not only emerged as the fastest growing automotive retailer, but also the most profitable thanks to our deep vertical integration across retail, lending, vehicle transportation, wholesale auctions, and more. 

If you want to grow not just as a Quality Engineer but as a leader and business-builder, Carvana is the place for you. Our technology teams build: 

• End-to-end ecommerce for both selling and buying cars, including everything you see on Carvana.com and in our mobile apps.
• AI-driven customer support across chat, email, SMS, and voice, as well as a proprietary CRM platform to ensure the most efficient and highest quality customer experience.
• 360° vehicle photography and interactive merchandising using cutting edge computer vision and AI techniques.
• The most sophisticated and self-service automotive lending platform in the world.
• Systems and tools behind a nationwide logistics network that has delivered and picked up over 3 million cars via our fully owned and operated fleet of automotive haulers, efficiently managing distribution of our massive inventory to 85% of US driveways.
• Enterprise grade systems for operating the largest vehicle reconditioning facilities in the US, with workflow and automation to guide the work for everything mechanical, electrical, and cosmetic needed to bring each car to our high standards.
• Early adoption and customization of AI tools for optimizing our Developer efficiency and experience.

And much, much more…

THIS IS A 100% ON-SITE POSITION FROM OUR HQ IN TEMPE (Monday through Friday)

About the team and position

Do you have a customer first mindset? Are you the type of person who naturally wants to learn new technologies? If so, join our dynamic team focused on developing the tools and systems that power Carvana's advocate experience, and help answer customer’s questions. We are a team that is focused on performance, scalability, and reliability to provide the best experience to our customers, both internal and external.

As a member of the quality engineering team, you will be helping to develop and enhance our next generation testing platform. We are as automated as possible and always trying to find new ways to increase speed and efficiency in the platform. You will work closely with development and product teams to release and maintain new features without compromising on quality for our internal advocates and our customers.

What you’ll be doing

• Work collaboratively and highly communicate with other Quality Engineers, Product, and Dev teams.
• Collaborate with Product and Development teams to gather requirements, translate them into test scenarios, and establish an automated integration test framework that will be continuously updated and managed.
• Develop, debug, and maintain test scripts, test cases, and automation frameworks for our web applications and back end services.
• Anticipate risks, and report defects discovered during automated test runs.
• Evaluate emerging tools/technologies to continue enhancing the automation framework.
• Leaning into AI tools in creating automated tests/framework.
• Championing continuous integration and best practices on quality test execution.

What you should know

• 3-6 years of software development experience with C#/.NET core, including proficiency in writing complex SQL queries and working with modern testing frameworks (Playwright, NUnit, RestSharp).
• Strong expertise in API development and testing, including REST and GraphQL, with a solid understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and Object Oriented Design patterns.
• Demonstrated experience with Git/GitHub, Jira, and Agile methodologies (SCRUM/Kanban), including ability to review pull requests and manage test cases effectively.
• Innovation-focused mindset with ability to work autonomously in fast-paced teams, embracing AI-driven development approaches while maintaining high quality standards.

It would be great if you also had

• Experience with Azure DevOps.
• Experience with postman and swagger.
• Experience with Cline, Roo, Copilot AI agentic tools.
• Experience in cross-browser and mobile web testing.
• Experience using databases
• Familiarity with Splunk, datadog and snowflake is a huge plus!
• Familiar with common CI/CD methodologies in testing code on its way to production.

What we’ll offer in return

• Full-Time Salary Position with a competitive salary.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
• 401K with company match.
• A multitude of perks including student loan payments, discounts on vehicles, benefits for your pets, and much more.
• A great wellness program to keep you healthy and happy both physically and mentally.
• Access to opportunities to expand your skillset and share your knowledge with others across the organization.

Legal Stuff

Hiring is contingent on passing a complete background check.  This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Carvana is an equal employment opportunity employer.  All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.  Carvana also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.