Lead Automation Engineer

Employment Type: Full-time / 5 Days a week

Shift Timing: 1 PM- 10 PM (IST)

Experience: 10+ years

Work location: Noida/ Hyderabad/ Trivandrum

Mode: Work from Office

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Automation Lead Engineer with strong expertise in Playwright, JavaScript, and/or TypeScript to lead automation initiatives, build scalable test frameworks, and guide QA teams in delivering high-quality software products. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in test automation architecture, CI/CD integration, team leadership, and quality engineering best practices.

Leadership & Team Development:

• Lead, mentor, and support QA engineers, helping resolve automation challenges.
• Conduct technical reviews of automation designs, frameworks, and scripts.
• Identify bottlenecks in automation workflows and drive continuous improvements.
• Manage testing resources, ensuring motivation and monitoring progress.
• Guide the team on best practices in test automation architecture and implementation.

Test Automation & Framework Development

• Architect, design, and develop scalable automation frameworks using Playwright with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Review automation code quality and enforce clean, scalable coding practices.
• Ensure CI/CD integration with test automation in Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps.

Maintain automation scripts, optimize test execution speed, and reduce maintenance overhead.

• Introduce new automation tools & techniques to enhance test efficiency

Test Strategy & Execution

• Define, track, and report key automation metrics to measure efficiency.
• Oversee automation testing in functional, regression, performance, and security testing.
• Ensure cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility through automated tests.
• Identify and implement appropriate testing tools and plan test environments efficiently.
• Drive and manage the test activities over all disciplines including performance, reliability.
• Develop and maintain Project Test Strategy Plan.
• Align all test activities within the test team, together with the SW- HW, and the Third party components.
• Responsible for tracking testing activity and progress
• Identifying testing tools and plan the test environments.
• Ensuring the appropriate planning and management of the test resources
• Assessing the progress and effectiveness of the test effort

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with developers, DevOps, and SW architects to align automation strategy.
• Lead automation efforts across different teams, ensuring scalable test automation.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of QA professionals, providing guidance and support to ensure their success and growth.
• Scrum through the issues and identify the real production blockers.
• Technically involve with test team and guide, coach, and mentor the team
• Mange the testing resources and ensure team is motivated and monitor testing tasks progress.

Requirements:

• 11+ years of experience in quality assurance, with at least [3] years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Playwright with JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
• Proven track record of success in developing and implementing QA strategies, processes, and methodologies.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve excellence.
• Experience in conducting code reviews, architecture discussions, and framework design.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels.
• In-depth knowledge of QA principles, practices, and tools, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.