QA Automation Lead

QA Automation Lead

Are you interested in working with the World's leading AI-powered Quality Engineering Company? Ready to advance your career, team up with global thought leaders across industries and make a difference every day? Join us at Qualitest! We are looking for an Automation Lead to join our growing team in United States Location - Atlanta, GA (hybrid)

Job Description: The Lead, Quality Engineering is a senior individual contributor accountable for designing, building, and sustaining automated quality engineering capabilities across Customer and Commercial product teams operating under a modern Product Operating Model. This role is hands-on and execution-oriented—responsible for creating and maintaining automated QA frameworks, pipelines, and quality platforms that enable teams to deliver faster with confidence. The Director ensures quality is engineered into products from the earliest stages of discovery through production—not validated after the fact.

Core Accountabilities:

• Product Model & Discovery Partnership Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to embed automated quality strategies into product discovery and delivery. Ensure experiments, MVPs, and releases include automated validation aligned to customer and business outcomes. Advocate for testability, observability, and automation-readiness as non-negotiable design principles.
• Automated Quality Engineering Strategy & Architecture Define and own the automated QA strategy for Customer and Commercial platforms. Design and maintain enterprise-grade automation frameworks covering UI, API, data, performance, and security testing. Establish standards for automation design, tooling, test data, and environment management. Make explicit trade-offs between automation depth, execution time, risk coverage, and maintainability.
• Hands-On Automation Delivery & Sustainment Build, extend, and maintain automated QA solutions integrated directly into CI/CD pipelines. Ensure automation suites are reliable, fast, and actionable—minimizing false positives and brittle tests. Continuously refactor and improve automation to keep pace with product and platform evolution. Reduce reliance on manual testing by replacing it with scalable, reusable automated capabilities.
• Individual Contributor Technical Leadership Serve as the primary technical authority for automated QA across Customer and Commercial domains. Lead complex automation initiatives end-to-end through direct contribution. Provide reference implementations, patterns, and reusable components for teams to adopt. Coach engineers and QE practitioners on effective automation practices (without formal people management).
• Business Partnership & Communication Act as a trusted advisor to product and business leaders on quality risk, automation coverage, and release readiness. Translate automation metrics into clear business impact narratives (risk reduction, faster time-to-market, cost avoidance). Proactively surface quality and automation gaps that could impact customer experience or revenue.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance Ensure automated QA solutions meet enterprise security, audit, and regulatory requirements. Embed traceability, evidence generation, and controls directly into automation pipelines. Partner with Security and Platform teams to ensure automation aligns with enterprise standards.

Success Measures:

• High-confidence releases driven by automated quality signals.
• Measurable reduction in escaped defects and production incidents.
• Increased automation coverage and reduced manual testing effort.
• Faster feedback cycles for product teams.
• Automation frameworks that scale and remain maintainable over time.

Leadership Profile:

• Builder-first mindset with strong technical depth
• Automation-focused, not test case driven
• Pragmatic, risk-aware, and outcome-oriented
• Influences through credibility and results, not authority
• Holds a high bar for automation quality and sustainability

Required Experience & Capabilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience building automated QA solutions.
• Proven track record creating and sustaining automation at enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise in test automation frameworks, CI/CD integration, and cloud-native systems.
• Strong understanding of API, UI, data, performance, and security testing automation.
• Ability to communicate automation value and risk in business terms.

Benefits:

Why QualiTest? Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace – we are one, we are many at Qualitest. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences. We have more than 40% women and around 120 different nationalities. Local and global opportunities – we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career. Clear view of your career and progression with the company – Qualitest is growing massively (since 2021 – tripled our employees base – we now have more than 8,000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us. Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers. Save your earnings and prepare for your future by enrolling in our 401k plan where Qualitest will match your contributions accelerating your savings plan. Take care of health with enrollment into one of our competitive healthcare benefits. Qualitest will match towards your HSA if you choose to participate. Never stop experimenting and learning with QCraft – our Learning & Development platform: 50,000+ courses, 300+ virtual labs, mentorship and leadership programs, professional tribes, sponsored certifications, and much more. Stay active and get rewarded with our Corporate Wellness Program. We pay your Gym membership and giving you opportunities to Earn additional vacation times for attendance the gym! Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program's. Refer and earn – tap your network for net-worth. We recognize our employees work via our Qudos platform - You can earn bonuses and spot awards by celebrating your and your peers' achievements. Planning a vacation? Looking for car insurance? Get access to Qualitest Employee Perks for discounts on anything from travel to electronics. With so many offerings the savings are endless! A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $120,000 - $130,000.