Lead Automation Engineer
Description
We’re looking for a hands-on Lead Automation Engineer to Lead our automation team and champion quality for our cloud‑native applications. You would lead an Agile/Scrum team, partnering closely with engineers, product owners, release stake holders to ensure quality is verified at every stage of development.
This team leader is also a technical SME(Subject Matter Expert) for the automation team, that will shape quality automation strategy, evolve QA practices, and take ownership of test automation that supports fast, reliable delivery.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on the design, implementation, and execution of highly complex and/or high-profile test cases using Playwright, Selenium, NUnit testing framework expertise.
- Design and maintain custom test automation frameworks, including compile-time consistency strategies across the stack using C#, Java, TypeScript or similar high-level language.
- Develop and maintain test data management strategies using direct database manipulation. SQL Server — proficiency in database setup, management, and database-driven test scenarios.
- Experience in leveraging generative and/or agentic AI in all possible aspects of automation and quality assurance to reduce manual efforts to the minimum and streamline processes.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools and version control systems. Mercurial (Hg) source control with TortoiseHg.
- Experience in Web APIs (SOAP, OData, REST) . Co-ordinate with developers in identifying overlaps between Unit tests and automations tests.
- Experience testing complex business workflows and processes. Understanding of typical ERP business logic (AP/AR, Billing, HRM, etc.).
- Experience and Understanding of common automation design patterns such as the Page Object Model and robot pattern implementations.
- Lead process improvements, agile scrum meetings, code reviews, defects detection and identify strategic solutions. Achieve 100% traceability between manual Zephyr test scripts and automated tests.
- Mentor and train QA staff on framework-specific patterns, best practices, and QA initiatives throughout the agile SDLC and take primary responsibility for certifying product releases.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or or related field.
- 10 or more years of automation development experience.
- 4 or more years of technical lead experience.
- Proven experience and exemplary track record leading and providing directions to a team. Must lead by example.
- Technical lead helping the team resolve any technical roadblocks.
- Strong experience of Agile SCRUM development processes.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills across multiple onshore and offshore teams of developers, QAs and automation engineers.