Lead Test Automation Engineer
Core
Lead a small 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
Software Quality Engineering / Test Automation
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 testing (AWS/Azure/GCP), root-cause analysis, team leadership, technical mentoring, debugging, system analysis
Preferred skills
Python, Pytest, Postman, Playwright, Cypress, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, performance testing, solution architecture
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 standardize automation frameworks, tools, and coding practices; Drive automation strategy, framework design, solution planning, and CI/CD integration; Remain hands-on with framework development, code reviews, and debugging; Mentor automation engineers and serve as a subject matter expert; Define and track automation metrics including coverage, stability, and failure trends; Lead root-cause analysis for complex automation failures
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
