Role summary
We’re looking for a Lead Automation QA engineer who can own quality at scale. This role will contribute to establishing testing strategy, processes, and best practices for a large, multi-team program. You’ll work closely with engineering and product to shift to drive quality improvement, standardize approaches, and raise the overall bar.
Key responsibilities
- Define and own the testing strategy across the program (scope, tooling, coverage, environments).
- Establish QA standards, best practices, and guardrails
- Set up quality metrics and reporting
- Design, build, and evolve existing automation frameworks
- Mentor and upskill QA engineers on test automation practices.
- Execute variety of manual and automation testing tasks for new and existing features as part of QA team
- Create comprehensive test plans, test cases, and automation scripts for new and existing features. Prepare testing documentation upon release.
Required experience
- 8+ years in QA, with strong automation focus.
- Proven experience building automation frameworks from scratch or scaling them across programs.
- Strong coding skills (preferably Python) - 5 years or more
- Experience with Playwright (3+ years )
- Solid experience with API (Insomnia is a plus) and integration testing.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD and modern SDLC.
- Experience working in large, distributed, multi-team programs.
- Advanced English, daily communication with US-team members
Nice to have
- Experience in regulated or high-compliance environments.
- Experience influencing quality practices at org or portfolio level.
- Prior role as QA Lead / Test Architect.
