Senior Automation Test Engineer, Web

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about crafting products that users and team members love to engage with? We're seeking an individual who is enthusiastic about the power of voice and eager to redefine communication, collaboration, and idea sharing with our AI-powered collaborative note-taking app. As our core product gains rapid adoption, this role will play a pivotal part in enhancing how people and teams communicate. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, and agile startup environment and is committed to delivering high-quality product experiences.

Your Impact

• Own the web automation strategy and roadmap, aligning it with company-wide quality goals and ensuring scalable, future-ready solutions.
• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of Web Automation Engineers, fostering technical growth, collaboration, and best practices.
• Develop and maintain scalable web automation frameworks using Playwright to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Define, design, and implement efficient automation strategies to reduce manual testing efforts and improve test execution speed.
• Provide technical guidance and perform code reviews to ensure high quality, maintainable automation code.
• Partner closely with development and QA teams to integrate automation early in the lifecycle and accelerate release cycles.
• Drive multiple automation initiatives in a fast-paced CI/CD environment, ensuring stable and reliable test execution.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend cutting-edge automation and AI-driven tools to optimize testing, improve reliability, and minimize flakiness.
• Build utilities and scripts to automate repetitive tasks, improving overall test efficiency and reducing execution time.
• Champion innovation by incorporating desktop automation (Electron apps) and visual testing into the automation strategy.

We’re Looking for Someone Who

• 5+ years of experience as a Senior SDET or Software Engineer, with strong ownership of large-scale automation frameworks.
• Proven experience in designing and developing automation frameworks and custom testing tools.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript for test automation.
• Solid experience with integration testing and end-to-end testing of web applications.
• Exposure to desktop automation for Electron-based applications.
• Familiarity with visual testing techniques to ensure UI consistency.
• Experience with AI/ML tools or frameworks, ideally applying AI to testing workflows or productivity improvements.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes and hands-on experience integrating automation into pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker for creating and managing test environments.
• Knowledge of web performance, accessibility and security testing best practices.
• Experience with cloud-based testing platforms such as BrowserStack or Sauce Labs.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to debug and analyze test failures efficiently.
• A strong advocate for quality at scale, AI-assisted testing innovation, and data-driven decision-making.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to guide teams and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus Points

• Experience integrating Playwright tests into AI pipelines (e.g., using LLMs for dynamic test generation or execution prioritization).
• Experience working with AI agents or prompt based testing frameworks to accelerate test authoring or result interpretation.
• Has migration experience from Selenium to Playwright understands how to re-architect frameworks for speed, maintainability, and scalability.
• Prior exposure to testing AI/ML-based applications or speech/NLP products.
• Experience with API automation using PyTest.

About Otter.ai 

We are in the business of shaping the future of work. Our mission is to make conversations more valuable.

With over 1B meetings transcribed, Otter.ai is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla.

Otter.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace.  We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants throughout the hiring process.  

Accessibility & Accommodations

Otter.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our hiring process.  If you need assistance or an accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] at least 3 business days before your interview.

*Otter.ai does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies without a written agreement in place for permanent placements. Any resume or other candidate information submitted outside of established candidate submission guidelines (including through our website or via email to any Otter.ai employee) and without a written agreement otherwise will be deemed to be our sole property, and no fee will be paid should we hire the candidate.

Salary range

Salary Range: $140,000 to $175,000 USD per year.

This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package.