Insight Global · Chicago, ILremote

Salary
Posted
Jul 22, 2026
Location
Chicago, IL
Last confirmed open
Jul 24, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior automation engineering role focused on modernizing a legacy reservation and booking platform that has been in operation for over four decades. The work splits evenly between backend/API testing and frontend web testing, with responsibilities including building automated test frameworks from scratch, replacing manual processes, writing Java code, conducting peer code reviews, and collaborating across an Agile product team. Suits an experienced SDET with a strong Java background and hands-on framework development history.

Senior level · 7+ years

Must have (5)
JavaPlaywright or SeleniumREST Assured, Postman or InsomniaGradleSchema validation
Nice to have (3)
GraphQLGroovy, Kotlin or ScalaSOAP

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What won't set you apart
Playwright62%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (8)

Employment type is not stated; the posting is staffed through Insight Global (a staffing firm), which may imply contract, but no explicit engagement type is given.

Playwright is listed as the preferred frontend framework over Selenium; both are captured under one skill with Selenium as an alternative.

REST Assured is the primary required API testing tool; Postman and Insomnia are listed as acceptable alternatives in the same requirement.

GraphQL is described as 'very helpful' in the requirements block but is also listed separately under what reads as a nice-to-have section; given the mixed signals it is marked preferred.

Groovy and the JVM alternatives (Kotlin, Scala) appear in a secondary section at the bottom of the posting alongside GraphQL and SOAP, and are marked preferred.

Schema validation and endpoint validation are called out explicitly as required skills; 'schema validation' is captured as a concrete named requirement.

Threading in Java is called out specifically but is treated as a facet of the core Java requirement rather than a separate named technology.

The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) is noted because the role requires substantial hands-on Java development, framework building, and code reviews — roughly half the work is development-oriented.

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