Principal Automation Consultant

Swoon's largest Utilities client is seeking a Principal Automation Engineer who can lead the day to day automation efforts and contribute hands - on to build out automation solutions. Interested? Apply Today! Role Details: Contract Duration: Multi - Year Rate: $80 - $95/hr Location: REMOTE, candidate must be able to work PST hours. Responsibilities: • Solve challenging technical problems, design the overall solutions, and provide guidance to the other team members. • Providing testing leadership and guidance by architecting testing solutions and helping to resolve complex technical problems and challenges. • Providing estimates, solution design, test design, and strategies for upcoming projects. • Design and develop robust automated tests for desktop applications, APIs, shell scripts, and databases to address business and technical use cases. Qualifications: • 10+ years of hands on experience designing, building and maintaining test automation solutions across multiple platforms using a variety of tools and frameworks. • 7+ years of experience interfacing, collaborating, and negotiating with team members, all levels of management, different departments, and vendors to develop solutions, facilitate cooperation between different parties, and obtain stakeholder buy-in. • One or more programming languages and scripting languages (Python, Bash, .NET, Java, etc.) • Experience w/SQL (Understanding of relational databases, ability to programmatically read/write from the DB using medium complexity SQL queries, comfortable designing and updating relational database structures, etc.). • Experience with CI/CD – setting up automation to run unattended both inside and outside of pipelines.