Top Automation Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design, build, and maintain internal low-code/no-code automations and integrations. Create advanced Google Sheets systems, multi-step Zapier/Make automations, API/webhook integrations, and Notion knowledge/workflow hubs. Implement AI-powered workflows, identify operational bottlenecks, and document scalable systems to improve efficiency across CRM, marketing, and fulfillment processes.

Designs and maintains automated UI, API, regression, and web application test frameworks. Collaborates with engineering, product, and design teams to identify and resolve defects, performs exploratory testing, supports CI/CD and agile processes, and promotes quality, performance, usability, security, and healthcare data privacy compliance.

Designs and maintains automated test suites for a federal IAM platform. Performs unit, regression, integration, functional, security, performance, and compliance testing; validates user stories and non-functional requirements; documents defects and coverage; supports agile ceremonies, application migration, test data management, code reviews, and CI/CD delivery across multiple environments.

Build software that productizes enterprise mortgage-lender onboarding. Responsibilities include automated tenant provisioning, configuration-as-code, environment promotion, data migration from legacy systems, reconciliation reporting, multi-tenant feature rollouts, smoke tests, conformance suites, and infrastructure or CI/CD improvements. The role spans backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, security, reliability, and collaboration with implementation teams.

Provides remote, onsite, and customer-site technical support for laboratory automation platforms. Manages customer cases, troubleshoots software, hardware, networking, robotic, and database issues, deploys and debugs integration code, performs upgrades and configuration changes, trains customers, collaborates with field and internal teams, and documents resolutions and process improvements.

Supports laboratory automation customers by managing technical cases, troubleshooting software, hardware, networking, and robotics systems, and deploying integration code. Configures databases, performs upgrades and configuration changes, trains customers, collaborates with field service and software teams, documents issues, and drives resolutions. The role is remote with office and customer-site work and requires approximately 30% domestic travel.

Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts. Lead test strategy, planning, and execution across functional, load, integration, security, server-side, and ETL testing. Create test artifacts, run automated tests, analyze results, report defects, participate in CI/CD, code reviews, and agile ceremonies, and drive issue resolution.

Design, build, and maintain scalable E2E automation frameworks for web applications and APIs using Playwright or Selenium. Integrate Claude or other LLMs for self-healing tests, UI validation, and test data generation. Optimize QA workflows, manage defects and regression suites in Linear, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with engineering, product, and data science teams. Mentor engineers and lead quality initiatives in an Agile environment.

Define and lead an enterprise-level test automation strategy across various layers, focusing on scaling automation frameworks, improving quality, and mentoring engineers. Collaborate on testing AI systems, enhancing CI/CD processes, and reducing flakiness in automation.

Design and maintain automated testing frameworks for web, iOS, and Android fitness applications. Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, build API coverage, test GPS and location features through simulation and sensor mocking, and use AI tools to improve QA workflows. Perform targeted exploratory testing, document defects, collaborate cross-functionally, estimate QA work, and advocate for quality throughout development.

Own the enterprise integration and automation architecture across Finance, HR, Revenue, Billing, and Go-to-Market systems. Lead design reviews, engineering standards, governance, monitoring, technical debt reduction, and complex hands-on integrations using Workday Studio, Workato, Salesforce, Snowflake, and APIs. Guide distributed integration teams, manage escalations, support recruiting and development, and partner with senior stakeholders to prioritize automation initiatives and deliver resilient, production-grade solutions.

Design and implement automated tests, frameworks, and fixtures for embedded hardware and software. Execute regression, performance, stress, and reliability tests. Build and maintain R&D and production test environments, collaborate to debug firmware and hardware, define testability in design reviews, support manufacturing partners, and enable customers onsite (10-20% travel).

Develop and maintain end-to-end automated tests for Angular/Ionic applications and Salesforce workflows using Playwright and TypeScript. Build reusable testing frameworks, validate JSON, Excel, S3, and backend data flows, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with engineering, QA, DevOps, analytics, and business teams. Track automation metrics, identify defects and edge cases, document test strategies, and improve quality gates across integrated platforms.

The Test Automation Engineer will develop automation frameworks, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, analyze results, and collaborate on product requirements.

Lead and mentor QA team to define QA strategy and processes. Design, develop, and maintain Java-based Selenium/Cucumber automation frameworks, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, test cloud-hosted AWS applications, manage defect lifecycle, define test plans and metrics, and collaborate with DevOps, development, and product teams to ensure software quality across the SDLC.

Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts for web applications, APIs, and backend services. Create test plans, execute regression and integration tests, track defects, integrate tests into CI/CD, and collaborate with developers to improve QA processes and software reliability.

Build and maintain Python-first automation and tooling for hyperscale data center, backbone, and out-of-band networks. Operate multi-vendor routing/switching (BGP, IS-IS/OSPF, EVPN/VXLAN, MPLS), implement telemetry and observability (gNMI/OpenConfig, SNMP, flow), codify config-as-code (Jinja2, NETCONF/YANG, REST APIs), carry production on-call, lead incident response and RCA, and support site turn-ups, capacity expansion, and secure change governance.

Sola seeks a Software Engineer for Desktop Automation to own and enhance their execution platform, focusing on reliability and integrating with AI pipelines.

Lead design and implementation of automated testing solutions and QA strategies. Build scalable automation frameworks, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive quality improvements across the software development lifecycle.

Lead automation projects across design, engineering, implementation, commissioning and lifecycle support. Serve as technical authority for control systems (DCS), provide cybersecurity and operational support, collaborate with sites and vendors, ensure safety and regulatory compliance, and travel for commissioning as needed.

Design, build, and maintain automation and IaC for Azure and Microsoft 365 environments. Automate identity, licensing, Teams/Exchange/SharePoint workflows using Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell. Implement and operate Azure services, Entra ID, Windows Server, and ensure security, compliance, and disaster recovery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.

The Associate Staff Engineer will lead automation testing efforts utilizing various tools and frameworks while mentoring teammates and implementing agile practices.

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will develop and maintain automation solutions for power systems, lead projects, program PLC and SCADA applications, and support quality assurance checks while traveling 25% of the time.

As Robotics & Automation Project Engineer, you will ensure reliability of robotic systems, diagnose failures, implement improvements, and support operations across manufacturing environments.

Expand and own automated test coverage for the Kitchen Display System: design and execute UI, API, regression, and smoke tests; build scalable automation frameworks; maintain CI/CD test pipelines; investigate defects and improve test reliability; collaborate with developers, product, and QA; use AI-assisted tools to boost test design and engineering productivity.