The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  JCPenney is hiring a Automation Engineer in Lancaster, CA.

• Role description

  Trade your current backlog for ours: JCPenney needs an Automation Engineer in Lancaster, CA to take Git systems from fragile to bulletproof. Consider the trade: your 5 years of JUnit for $116,000 - $176,000, a full-time schedule, and ownership most shops never offer.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Own the senior Persuasion workstream that unblocks the rest of JCPenney's Lancaster, CA roadmap
  • Sit with technology users in Lancaster to learn what the Playwright tool really needs
  • Pair Playwright and Accessibility Testing in a pipeline JCPenney can extend without your help later
  • Pair with technology analysts so JCPenney's Playwright models match real behavior
  • Coordinate releases with stakeholders across Lancaster, CA and remote teams
  • Harden JCPenney's SpecFlow auth so the CA audit comes back clean

  What You'll Bring

  • Comfort with the full-time cadence of a Lancaster-based operation
  • 7 years of API Testing práctica, plus a hunger for what's next
  • Self-direction that survives a quiet Slack channel
  • Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
  • The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
  • A CA work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway

  Think of JCPenney as the data-driven engine behind some of the most trusted technology products on the market. Our Lancaster, CA culture runs on written context, generous handoffs, and very few status meetings.

  Pay is $116,000 - $176,000, growth is structured, mentorship is personal, and the flexible full-time schedule is non-negotiable in your favor.

  Confirmed live today, applications for this technology role land in real time.

  If a $116,000 - $176,000 role with room to grow sounds right, JCPenney would love to hear from you.

• Required skills

  • Playwright
  • TestNG
  • SpecFlow
  • Git
  • API Testing
  • Accessibility Testing
  • JUnit
  • Attention Management
  • Persuasion

• Benefits & perks

  • Oil Changes
  • Chiropractic care coverage
  • Meal delivery stipend
  • Compressed work week option
  • Maternity Leave
  • Personal Shopping
  • On-site flu shots and vaccinations
  • Sick Days
  • Family Leave
  • Ping Pong
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Hackathons and innovation time

• Apply before 2026-09-15

  Submit your application for this Full-time technology position.