We are looking for a highly technical Senior QA Automation Technical Lead to lead and evolve our automation quality engineering capabilities.
This role is focused on technical leadership, architecture, and engineering excellence in the automation domain. The role will guide and mentor QA Automation Engineers while building the automation infrastructure, frameworks, and standards that enable scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient testing across the organization.
The ideal candidate is passionate about developer enablement and treats test automation as an engineering platform rather than a standalone QA activity. This role works closely with development, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to integrate automated quality validation deeply into the CI/CD lifecycle and development workflows.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to QA Automation Engineers and development teams on automation architecture, standards, and best practices
- Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks, testing infrastructure, and reusable automation tooling
- Integrate automated testing deeply into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows to improve release confidence and delivery speed
- Build self-service automation capabilities that enable developers to easily implement, execute, and maintain tests independently
- Improve automation reliability, execution efficiency, observability, and infrastructure cost optimization
- Collaborate closely with development, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to promote shift-left quality engineering practices
- Define and drive automation KPIs, quality standards, execution stability, and continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in QA Automation / Quality Engineering
- Strong technical leadership experience in automation architecture and engineering practices
- Strong hands-on development skills in one or more programming languages
- Deep experience with test automation frameworks and scalable automation design
- Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, containerized environments, and modern development platforms
- Experience with scalable automation execution strategies and infrastructure optimization
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation environments
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and systems thinking capabilities
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform
- Experience building internal developer platforms or quality engineering platforms
- Experience with mobile applications testing and mobile automation frameworks
- Experience implementing data quality validation, data pipeline testing, and automated data consistency checks
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring tooling
- Experience in high-scale SaaS or distributed systems environments
