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Lead Automation Engineer (Copy)

Nairobi, Nairobi City💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Own automation strategy and frameworks to gate releases for payroll and benefits software with confidence.

Role type

Lead Automation Engineer (Playwright/Cypress)

Builds

Scalable, reusable automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD for web and API surfaces.

Domain

HR, Payroll, and Benefits Software

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Playwright, Cypress, JavaScript, TypeScript, CI/CD integration, Git, REST API testing, SQL, test data management, AI tooling for testing, code review, mentoring

Preferred skills

Appium, performance testing, payroll/benefits/HRIS domain knowledge, contract testing, observability

Technologies

Playwright, Cypress, JavaScript, TypeScript, Git, REST, SQL, AI tooling

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable automation frameworks, set automation standards and best practices, review other engineers' automation code, mentor QA engineers, lead AI tooling adoption in testing, define test strategy and acceptance criteria, drive root cause analysis.

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with mentorship scope

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