Lead Test Automation Engineer

About Copado: Copado is the #1 DevOps Platform for Salesforce and the Cloud. We harness the power of native CI/CD and Robotic Testing to drive digital transformation for 1,000+ of the most innovative brands on the planet — from Coca-Cola to eBay to Volkswagen. Our low-code platform unites non-technical admins and pro-code developers on the same system and empowers enterprises to scale end-to-end software delivery across multi-cloud environments. The impact on your business? 20X faster releases, 94% fewer production bugs and 46% more Salesforce ROI. The impact on your team? No more late nights, weekend war rooms or stressful release days. Mission and Role Summary The Quality Engineering (QE) organization is the revenue protection infrastructure for Copado, directly enabling “Predictable, Reliable Releases” as a core company objective. As Lead Test Automation Engineer at Copado, you’ll join our Copado Quality Engineering team and be a driving force for quality in your assigned product area, ensuring every deployment enhances customer trust and business value. Your core mission is to transform the release process by: Building an Autonomous Safety Net: Architect and implement robust, AI-driven automated test suites that serve as a proactive safety net against software regression, directly protecting the company’s core Driving Quality-First CI/CD: Embed quality and compliance via automated gates into CI/CD pipelines to make release days obsolete, accelerate development, and prevent costly escalations. Enhancing Strategic Value: Act as the driving force for quality in an assigned product area, ensuring every deployment builds customer trust, neutralizes competitive threats, and accelerates the shift toward an autonomous AgentOps platform. What You’ll Be Doing / Key Responsibilities Your success in this role will be measured by your ability to deliver quality, improve processes, and integrate advanced testing technologies. Test Strategy & Ownership: Own and plan QA activities for your assigned area, including developing the test strategy, creating test plans, and collaborating effectively with Development and Product Management teams. Automated Quality Gates & Compliance: Integrate quality gates and tools into CI/CD pipelines to enforce standards and serve as a QA gatekeeper for release approvals, significantly reducing the risk of production failures. Comprehensive Test Coverage: Develop comprehensive end-to-end UI and API test automation using Copado Robotic Testing (CRT) for the assigned product area, directly increasing the team’s automated test coverage metric. Proactive Issue Prevention: Take ownership of your area, proactively identify automation opportunities, and consistently perform exploratory testing on new features to catch defects early, thereby reducing customer-facing bug reports. Report bugs and verify fixes. Drive AI/Robotics Adoption: Successfully utilize and provide tangible feedback on Copado AI agents and Robotic Explorer to improve test script reliability, maintenance, and generation, demonstrating measurable productivity gains through AI-assisted workflows. Elevate Team Quality Standards: Mentor others on QA best practices (e.g., Robot Framework, CI/CD integration, exploratory testing) and effectively collaborate with team members through code reviews and knowledge sharing, raising the overall quality maturity of the team. Technical Leadership: Act as a Test Architect for complex test automation cases and can technically own some Product QA activities and lead a team of experts. We are looking for someone with: A. Technical Competencies Core Automation & Test Architecture: Strong experience (3-5 years) with Robot Framework and standard automation tools like Qweb, Selenium, and Appium . Expertise with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Git, Jenkins, AWS, and GitLab . Strong Test Architecture Understanding to design, maintain, and scale the automation framework. Copado & Robotics Expertise (Highly Desired): Hands-on knowledge of Copado Robotic Testing (CRT) and Copado Explorer . Hands-on knowledge for using Copado AI agents and specific knowledge of AI prompting techniques . Development & Data Fluency: Technical knowledge of Python, XML, APIs, CLI, SQL, and log analysis for building robust, back-end test validation and debugging. API Automation: Hands-on experience with REST APIs, Requests and Postman. Exploratory Testing: Proven ability to perform exploratory testing. Non-Functional Testing (Highly Desired): Solid understanding of non-functional testing concepts. Competence in using JMeter. Domain Knowledge: Prior Salesforce experience (highly desired) to understand the unique challenges of testing Metadata and complex enterprise environments. Testing Methodologies: Familiarity with testing methodologies ( ISTQB certification or equivalent ). B. Cultural Competencies Quality & Ownership: Possesses a strong quality mindset with a proactive approach to testing. Takes full ownership and is accountable for the quality of their deliverables. Collaboration: An effective collaborative builder with excellent communication skills to interact seamlessly with technical (Dev, DevOps) and management stakeholders. Agility & Improvement: Demonstrates a commitment to continuous improvement in processes and personal skill mastery. Eager to mentor others and share knowledge. Execution: Demonstrates proven relationship-building and problem-solving skills . Manages complexity and demonstrates strong multitasking abilities and performance under pressure in a fast-paced environment. Remote Work: Experienced in working with remote teams and maintaining high engagement and productivity across time zones. Communication: Fluent written and verbal English communication. Copado is Equal Employment Opportunity and Affiantative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Copado does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Copado will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Copado. #J-18808-Ljbffr Copado