Sr. Test Automation Engineer - Kohler Ventures

Sr. Test Automation Engineer - Kohler Ventures

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Palo Alto, CA / New York City, NY (Midtown Manhattan) – Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite

Opportunity

Kohler Ventures is an independent company wholly owned by Kohler Co., global leader in the manufacture of kitchen and bath products, tile and home interiors, and an international host to award-winning hospitality and world-class golf destinations. Our mission is to build new digital businesses that empower consumers to lead healthier lives. We explore how familiar experiences can be enhanced and innovations developed through the integration of leading-edge technology, science, and design. Come join us as we build a best-in-class global multi-disciplinary team across artificial intelligence, machine learning, design, advanced software and hardware engineering, strategy, venture investments, sales, marketing, and partnerships. Our locations are Palo Alto, CA US, New York City, NY US, Kohler, WI US, Seoul, Korea, and Tel Aviv, Israel.

In your role as Senior Test Automation Engineer at Kohler Ventures you will:  

• Work directly with the Head of Software, software engineering team, and product teams.
• Create, maintain, and deploy testing tools/frameworks.
• Help deploy and integrate test automation into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Establish testing patterns, best practices, and increase test coverage (in partnership with engineers).
• Participate in various scrum meetings to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, estimates or potential problems.

Skills/Requirements

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline from a reputed academic institution.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Test Automation engineer.
• Experience with functional, regression, and end to end testing.
• Experience with some of test automation tools/frameworks such as Appium, Espresso, XCUI, Selenium, for Node, server API such as Jest, Cucumber, iOS, Android, embedded firmware for IoT devices.
• Experience in development using script programming language, Python
• Ability to translate business requirements into test plan and develop test automations at all layers.
• Ability to work and communicate with multiple stakeholders including PMs, engineers, engineering management.
• Availability to work outside of standard business hours as needed to be able to collaborate with teams across multiple time zones
• Minimal travel as needed both domestic and international

Preferred Qualifications:

• Compliant with appropriate QMS and regulations for medical devices.
• Broad interest spanning from early prototyping to shipping finished features.
• Experience in data science (including ML algorithm implementation).
• Champion for quality in code, processes, and culture.
• Positive, can-do attitude with a high degree of ownership and self-motivation to drive change.
• Entrepreneurial experience in a high growth technology focused company or startup.
• Exemplary collaboration skills across teams, geographies, and functions.

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Why Choose Kohler?
We empower each associate to #BecomeMoreAtKohler with a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, access to career growth and development opportunities, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and a strong culture of innovation. With more than 30,000 bold leaders across the globe, we’re driving meaningful change in our mission to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.

About Us
It is Kohler’s policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran. If, as an individual with a disability, you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact kohlerjobs@kohler.com.  Kohler Co. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. 

Client-provided location(s): New York, NY

Job ID: 50956132

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-01T00:10:22