Senior Staff Automation Engineer

Who We Are:

SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company.  Our mission is to disrupt the expensive and inefficient Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector by building a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting edge technology, innovative cost saving tools, and best-in-class customer service.  With hundreds of thousands of members onboarded since 2016, SmithRx has a solution that is resonating with clients all across the country.

We pride ourselves for our mission-driven and collaborative culture that inspires our employees to do their best work. We believe that the U.S healthcare system is in need of transformation, and we come to work each day dedicated to making that change a reality. At our core, we are guided by our company values:

• Integrity: Our purpose guides our actions and gives us confidence in the path ahead. With unwavering honesty and dependability, we embrace the pressure of challenging the old and exemplify ethical leadership to create the new.
• Courage: We face continuous challenges with grit and resilience. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown by balancing autonomy with empathy, and ownership with vulnerability. We boldly challenge the status quo to keep moving forward—always.
• Together: The success of SmithRx reflects the strength of our partnerships and the commitment of our team. Our shared values bind us together and make us one. When one falls, we all fall; when one rises, we all rise.

Job Summary:

The Engineering team at SmithRx is developing the next-generation modern pharmacy benefits management (PBM) platform that will change how companies administer and manage pharmacy benefits. Our unified technology platform provides real-time actionable insights that drives cost savings, powers clinical services and results in a brilliant customer experience. A unified technology platform exists nowhere in the pharmacy benefit ecosystem to programmatically solve widespread deficiencies. The result is a PBM delivering unmatched service quality and operational efficiencies that exceeds all industry standards.

As a Senior Staff Automation Engineer you will have responsibility for the overall test strategy of the products you test.  You have an automation-first mindset, leveraging your experience to determine where to add tests to best maximize impact.  You will create automated tests to help build and improve our regression test suites.  Not only will you help maintain these frameworks, but you will constantly look to improve them so they are reliable, efficient, and easy to use. You will be focused on the automation ecosystem as a whole, evaluating how all test frameworks work together while defining the architectural standards for automation.  While embedded in your sprint team you will be the primary quality advocate who champions best practices in testing, develops deep product knowledge, and consistently delivers high quality code to our users.  You take ownership of complex cross-cutting projects by creating comprehensive test strategies and communicating quality status with all stakeholders.  You will help maintain and improve our quality standards, constantly raise the bar, and show a passion for finding defects before they are shipped.

What you will do:

• Develop and maintain automated tests to help ensure high test coverage and fast feedback on defects
• Continuously maintain and improve our test frameworks
• Help define the test architecture across all test frameworks and tooling
• Manage test strategy, product testing, and planning within your sprint team
• Create testing-related documentation including test plans and test cases
• Find and report bugs and track these to resolution in a timely manner
• Collaborate with the Product team to provide valuable insight and input to help create impactful features
• Provide clear test results to Development and Product teams to help manage project expectations/progress
• Create and maintain security and performance tests
• Develop deep expertise in the SmithRx products
• Utilize AI tools like Playwright MCP, Claude, and Copilot to realize efficiencies in your daily work
• Maintain and refine quality metrics to help track and communicate overall product health

What you will bring to SmithRx:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of experience in QA and automation testing with a demonstrated track record of team leadership
• Experience with one of the following languages: Python, Typescript, Java, or Javascript
• Experience with writing automated tests for API’s in a scripting or programming language
• Experience with API automation frameworks such as Pytest or REST Assured
• Experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright
• Familiarity with Page Object Model for UI automation
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Jenkins

What SmithRx Offers You: 

• Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Spending Benefits 
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Program 
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Discretionary Paid Time Off 
• Paid Company Holidays
• Wellness Benefits
• Commuter Benefits 
• Paid Parental Leave benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Well-stocked kitchen in office locations
• Professional development and training opportunities