Lead Test Automation Engineer
Core
Lead a team of automation engineers to design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks, environments, and CI/CD integrations for complex applications.
Role type
Senior IC Lead Test Automation Engineer
Builds
Scalable automated test strategies, frameworks, and scripts supporting API, UI, integration, functional, regression, smoke, performance, and reliability testing.
Domain
Financial services / Software Quality Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Test automation strategy, framework architecture, CI/CD integration, API testing, cloud platform testing, root-cause analysis, technical mentoring, pipeline optimization
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Pytest, Postman, REST, JSON, AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Lead and provide technical direction to a team of automation engineers; Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test strategies, frameworks, and scripts; Recommend and help standardize automation frameworks, test environments, tools, coding practices, and implementation patterns; Drive automation strategy, framework design, solution planning, CI/CD integration, and tooling decisions for major initiatives; Remain hands-on with framework development, test implementation, code reviews, debugging, and technical problem-solving; Mentor automation engineers, Software Test Engineers, analysts, and interns, and serve as an automation subject matter expert across delivery teams; Lead the consistent adoption of automation and quality engineering best practices; Own automation framework health, pipeline integration, execution reliability, and communication of automation risks, gaps, and progress to leadership; Define and track meaningful automation metrics, including coverage, execution results, stability, failure trends, and test effectiveness; Lead root-cause analysis for complex automation failures, framework issues, and recurring defects, and implement improvements to prevent recurrence; Identify and implement improvements that increase automation efficiency, maintainability, scalability, and execution speed; Partner with development, QA, DevOps, architecture, product teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to support high-quality delivery; Communicate technical recommendations, automation health, delivery risks, and improvement opportunities to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership