Test Lead - Automation & Quality Engineering
Core
Lead and mentor a QA team to drive quality engineering practices across manual and automation testing for software, transactional, and hardware-integrated environments.
Role type
Senior IC Test Lead (Automation & Quality Engineering)
Builds
Automated test frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD workflows for payments and transactional systems
Domain
Payments, transactional systems, SaaS, global software products
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, API testing, integration testing, backend validation, CI/CD pipelines, SQL queries, mentoring, testing standards definition, defect investigation, root cause analysis, automation coverage improvement, release readiness processes, distributed/cloud/containerized system testing, performance testing, security testing, reliability testing
Preferred skills
Experience in payments, transaction processing, card payments, EFTPOS, settlement, reconciliation, gateways, switching environments, hardware-integrated systems, high-volume transactional systems, building automation frameworks from scratch
Technologies
Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, SQL
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a small QA team across manual and automation testing; Drive quality engineering practices across multiple delivery squads; Build, maintain and improve automated test frameworks and tooling; Support API, integration and end-to-end testing initiatives; Contribute to CI/CD and automated testing workflows; Support defect investigation, troubleshooting and root cause analysis; Help define testing standards, quality gates and release readiness processes; Improve automation coverage, testing efficiency and platform reliability; Collaborate with developers on shared ownership of quality practices; Support testing across software, transactional and hardware-integrated environments
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC