Senior QA Automation Engineer - buildout

Buildout is the AI deal engine for CRE brokerages, automating every step from first contact to commission. While brokers focus on relationships and winning listings, Buildout handles the workflows behind the scenes, turning manual processes into intelligent, scalable systems. Trusted by over 50,000 brokers, Buildout powers more profitable deals from lead to close.

Learn more at www.buildout.com http://www.buildout.com.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We're hiring our first dedicated automation engineer to own end-to-end test automation across our products. Today, our developers write Playwright tests as part of feature work, but we need someone to take real ownership: set the direction for how we do E2E testing, backfill coverage for the critical user journeys we're missing, keep the suite fast and trustworthy, and raise the bar for how the whole engineering team writes tests.

This is a high-autonomy role. You'll define the strategy, not just execute someone else's. You'll pair closely with our DevOps engineer to decide where automated tests live in the pipeline, how often they run, what gates what, and how we scale execution as coverage grows. Over time, you'll take on meaningful ownership of the testing portions of that infrastructure.

You'll succeed here if you treat test code as production code, get genuinely bothered by flaky tests, and enjoy multiplying your impact by making other engineers better.

HOW YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE

• Own the E2E test suite. Design, build, and maintain end-to-end automated tests in Playwright (TypeScript) covering our critical user journeys across products.
• Backfill and prioritize coverage. Audit what we have, identify the highest-risk gaps, and systematically close them.
• Kill flakiness. Own suite reliability end to end: root-cause flaky tests, establish quarantine and retry policies, manage test data and environment stability, and keep signal-to-noise high enough that a red build means something.
• Shape CI integration. Partner with our DevOps engineer on where tests run in the pipeline, execution frequency, parallelization, runtime budgets, and merge/deploy gating.
• Test at the right layer. Know when a check belongs at the API or integration layer instead of the browser, and structure the suite so it stays fast as it grows.
• Enable the team. Coach developers on writing good Playwright tests, review test code, and establish patterns, utilities, and documentation so test authorship scales beyond you.
• Report on quality. Co-own quality metrics including test coverage of critical paths, suite reliability, and defect escape rate, and communicate trends to engineering leadership.
• Use modern tooling. Leverage AI-assisted development (we use Claude Code across engineering) and Playwright's evolving tooling to accelerate test authoring and maintenance.

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