Lead QA Automation Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Lead QA Automation Engineer with 8 to 12 years of experience to own test automation across our QA organization. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will build and maintain automation frameworks, define the architecture and best practices followed by all QA teams, and lead a team of automation engineers.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks covering UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Stay hands-on while owning architecture, governance, and team leadership: build core framework components, write and review production-grade code
• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of automation engineers, including work allocation, code reviews, and performance feedback
• Define and mandate automation standards, framework usage, and best practices across all QA teams, with formal authority to enforce adoption, supported by training
• Act as the technical authority for automation, approving or rejecting approaches, tools, and framework changes proposed by any team

What you need

• 8–12 yrs of experience
• Unit testing
• Selenium
• Test automation
• Cucumber
• SQL
• Playwright
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Performance testing
• JIRA
• Terraform
• Machine learning
• LLMs
• Postman