Test Automation Engineer II

At PDI Technologies, we empower some of the world's leading convenience retail and petroleum brands with cutting-edge technology solutions that drive growth and operational efficiency.

By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make more informed decisions, and engage faster with customers through loyalty programs, shopper insights, and unmatched real-time market intelligence via mobile applications, such as GasBuddy.  We’re a global team committed to excellence, collaboration, and driving real impact. Explore our opportunities and become part of a company that values diversity, integrity, and growth.

Role Overview

If you love to design scalable fault-tolerant systems that can run efficiently with high performance and are eager to learn new technologies and develop new skills, then we have a great opportunity for you: join our PDI family and work closely with other talented PDI engineers to deliver solutions that delight our customers every day! You will play a key role in designing and building our market leading software products as we drive to continuously increase our cloud maturity and mobility. You will be working as a key part of an agile team to design, build, test, and support PDI's enterprise software solutions. You will review, recommend & implement system enhancements that will improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of our products. You will be responsible for contributing to an always improving Engineering environment by ensuring all stakeholders (engineers, architects, product owners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of status and supported in their roles. With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments, including PowerShell scripting & bash, database administration as well as bare metal virtualization technologies and public cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure).

Key Responsibilities • Setting up test environments as required including client and web applications, services and databases. 

• Design, develop, and maintain automated UI, API, integration, smoke, and regression tests .

• Build and enhance scalable, reusable, and maintainable test automation frameworks .

• Review user stories and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios, risks, edge cases, and quality gaps.

• Integrate automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines .

• Perform functional, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing as required.

• Test APIs, microservices, web applications, databases, and distributed system integrations .

• Collaborate closely with developers to improve testability, automation coverage, and overall product quality.

• Troubleshoot automation, application, environment, and test-data-related failures.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, release planning, and continuous improvement activities.

• Leverage AI-assisted tools for test-case generation, automation development, code reviews, debugging, test-data generation, and failure analysis while applying appropriate engineering review and validation.

• Mentor and support junior Test Automation Engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

Qualifications • 4–7 years of experience in software testing, test automation, or software development.

• Experience working with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python .

• Experience with automation technologies such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, SpecFlow, Cucumber , or similar frameworks.

• Strong experience testing REST APIs using Postman, Rest Assured, Playwright, or equivalent technologies.

• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.

• Build mocks, emulators, fakes, stubs and test case libraries driving towards 100% acceptance test coverage of stories 

• Experience with Git and CI/CD technologies such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.

• Understanding of modern quality practices including Shift Left Testing, Test Pyramid, risk-based testing, and continuous testing .

• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP and container technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes is an advantage.

• Experience with or willingness to adopt AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar technologies for test automation and quality engineering.

• Strong analytical, debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Ability to independently contribute while collaborating effectively within distributed engineering teams.

• Experience in Convenience Retail, Fuel, Payments, Wholesale, Loyalty, or Logistics domains is preferred.

Behavioral Competencies • Ensures Accountability

• Manages Complexity

• Communicates Effectively

• Balances Stakeholders

• Collaborates Effectively

PDI is committed to offering a well-rounded benefits program, designed to support and care for you, and your family throughout your life and career.  This includes a competitive salary, market-competitive benefits, and a quarterly perks program. We encourage a good work-life balance with ample time off [time away] and, where appropriate, hybrid working arrangements.  Employees have access to continuous learning, professional certifications, and leadership development opportunities. Our global culture fosters diversity, inclusion, and values authenticity, trust, curiosity, and diversity of thought, ensuring a supportive environment for all.