Automation Engineer III

Kforce Inc is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer III to support and lead enterprise integration initiatives across complex, multi-system environments. The role involves designing and maintaining test automation workflows, ensuring reliable data exchange, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver validated solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain test automation and integration workflows across enterprise platforms
• Develop and support message-driven integrations using middleware and messaging technologies (e.g., MQ or similar tools)
• Ensure reliable, accurate data exchange between systems across the integration layer
• Support integration architecture and automation strategy for system validation
• Perform comprehensive integration and automation testing across multiple systems and environments
• Design and execute automated test suites and frameworks where applicable
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve defects, data inconsistencies, and integration gaps
• Diagnose and resolve issues across distributed systems, including messaging failures and data discrepancies
• Monitor integration workflows and support production deployments
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective solutions for system reliability issues
• Partner with cross-functional teams including development, product, and operations
• Participate in design reviews, sprint ceremonies, and integration planning
• Ensure alignment across teams to deliver fully validated, production-ready solutions
• Enhance automation coverage, testing strategies, and validation approaches
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing

Requirements:

• Demonstrate strong technical expertise and thrive in a high-ownership environment, taking full accountability for both development and quality
• Experience working across complex, multi-system environments
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed systems
• Strong Experience With test automation frameworks and strategies
• Strong Experience With enterprise integrations (APIs, middleware, or message-based architectures)
• Strong Experience With messaging technologies (MQ, message queues, or similar tools)
• Familiarity With REST/SOAP APIs
• Familiarity With SQL or database querying
• Familiarity With data validation and transformation