Company Description CalPac Consulting specializes in providing world-class IT talent and dedicated teams, enabling organizations to accelerate their product roadmaps and solve complex technical challenges. With a global presence and over a century of combined leadership experience, we deliver strategic global staffing that integrates seamlessly into your culture. Our\ "Follow the Sun\" workflow ensures continuous project momentum, and we pride ourselves on agility, delivering candidate profiles within 24-48 hours. Our expertise spans the full Microsoft stack, full-stack development, QA (manual and automation), DevOps, and cutting-edge AI solutions. Role Overview Our client is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead the transition from manual regression testing to fully automated execution in CI/CD. This is a hands-on role with clear ownership: build, stabilize, and run automated regression suites using Katalon Studio, fully integrated into Azure DevOps pipelines. You’ll work across two enterprise web applications built with Angular (front end) and C#/.NET (back end), hosted in AWS and Azure. The expectation is not just writing tests, but owning execution reliability, test data strategy, and automation standards while mentoring a manual QA team. Key Responsibilities Katalon Automation & CI/CD Build, refactor, and maintain automated regression suites in Katalon Studio Execute Katalon tests in CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Configure pipeline stages, triggers, and pass/fail quality gates Troubleshoot CI-only failures (environment variables, drivers, headless execution) Test Design & Stability Convert recorded tests into maintainable, production-ready automation Reduce test flakiness through robust selectors, waits, retries, and refactoring Design reusable components, custom keywords, and data-driven tests <