Who We Are
KNAPP brings new technology to warehouse automation.
The KNAPP Group is a global provider of intelligent automation solutions for intralogistics and manufacturing, specializing in the sectors healthcare, fashion/apparel, general retail, food retail, industry and service. We live and breathe automation. We – more than 8,000 employees of the KNAPP Group in over 60 locations worldwide, shaping the future-oriented industry of intralogistics are dedicated to making complexity simple.
One of the KNAPP’s primary goals is to use continuous innovation to drive warehouse automation forward, always with the specific needs of the customers in mind. KNAPP Group’s unrelenting development activity is evident in everything from automated order picking systems and continuing refinement of container handling technology to its state-of-the-art, industry leading software solutions.
What You Get To Do
The Test Automation Engineer (Level 2) designs, extends, and maintains scalable automation solutions that improve product quality, increase CI/CD efficiency, and reduce release risk. This role emphasizes observability, synthetic data generation, and pipeline optimization to accelerate feedback cycles and strengthen test reliability across environments.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Extend and maintain modular automation frameworks for functional, integration, and regression testing.
- Implement and orchestrate synthetic tests (e.g., tagged smoke/sanity/regression suites) across environments with clear runbooks and schedules.
- Optimize CI/CD pipelines for speed and stability (parallelization, caching, flaky test triage, automated reporting).
- Instrument observability into automated tests (logs, metrics, traces) and attach diagnostics/artifacts to failures for faster root‑cause analysis.
- Generate and manage synthetic test data (factories, masking, seeding) to support repeatable, isolated test scenarios.
- Contribute performance checks using performance engineering tools to establish baselines and detect regressions early.
- Containerize test environments to enable reproducible local and pipeline executions.
- Collaborate with Development and Product to diagnose defects, harden pipelines, and resolve environment gaps.
- Share knowledge via workshops, brown‑bags, and mentoring for Level 1 engineers. Publish playbooks and re‑usable utilities.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities, including peer reviews, metrics reviews, and automation design discussions.
What You Have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5–7 years in Software Quality Assurance with a strong track record in test automation design and delivery.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language used for test automation (Python preferred) and in building maintainable test code.
- Hands‑on CI/CD experience with YAML‑based pipelines, including parallelization and automated reporting.
- SQL/PLSQL skills for data validation and database‑driven test scenarios.
- Working knowledge of observability concepts (logs/metrics/traces) and integrating test artifacts with monitoring dashboards.
- Experience with synthetic data generation/masking and stable test data management.
- Prior Linux experience and comfort with mixed Linux/Windows environments.
- Preferred: Scripting for pipelines and tooling (YAML, Bash, PowerShell); basic containerization and environment setup; familiarity with performance tooling for smoke/perf checks.
Working Conditions and Environment:
- Authorization to work in the U.S.
- Passport or ability to obtain a passport
- Travel required up to 20% both domestically (US) and internationally (primarily Austria and other parts of Europe, as well as Canada)
- Professional office etiquette is required at all times
- Physical requirements: sitting for long periods of time, standing, walking, climbing a ladder, speaking, visual acuity, finger dexterity, listening, reaching at arm’s length, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
- In addition to the tasks listed in the preceding description, Employee is responsible for following all company rules as outlined in the Knapp handbook.
What You Will Get
- 2 remote days per week
- Half day Fridays
- A beautiful new, state-of-the-art, office complex in Kennesaw, GA
- Industry competitive compensation
- Great benefits with better than average employer contributions, including health, dental, vision, life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short & Long Term Disability and more!
- 401k with a very generous employer match and no vesting!
- Paid Vacation & Holidays
- Profit Sharing
- Paid Parental Leave
- Subsidized Daycare
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Pet Insurance
- Subsidized food delivery
- Monthly celebrations
- Quarterly employee events
- Corporate Social Responsibility including recycling, sustainability and volunteering
KNAPP is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other basis protected by law.
Due to the safety-sensitive nature of this position, strict adherence to KNAPP’s drug-free workplace policy is required. All candidates will be subject to drug-screening in accordance with the policy and will be expected to remain drug-free during their employment. There will be no exception if recreational or medical use of marijuana is permitted in the location of employment and/or residence or if use of marijuana is only during “off-hours.”
