Lead Quality Engineer

Job Title: QA Automation Manager

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is seeking a hands-on QA Automation Manager to lead our quality engineering team through a strategic modernization of our test automation platform. The successful candidate will drive our transition from a legacy Selenium-based framework to Playwright, while championing the adoption of AI-assisted testing practices across the organization. This is a player-coach role: you'll set technical direction and mentor a team, while remaining close enough to the code to make sound architectural decisions. This position is based onsite in Atlanta, GA.

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Management
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA automation engineers, setting clear goals, conducting performance reviews, and supporting career development.
  • Establish quality engineering standards, best practices, and a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and DevOps leaders to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
  • Manage team capacity, sprint planning, and delivery commitments within an Agile environment.
• Selenium-to-Playwright Migration
  • Define and execute a phased migration strategy from Selenium to Playwright, including risk assessment, prioritization, and rollback planning.
  • Design a scalable, maintainable Playwright test architecture (page object models, fixtures, parallelization, cross-browser coverage).
  • Establish migration tooling and patterns to accelerate conversion of existing test suites while minimizing coverage gaps.
  • Define success metrics (execution speed, flakiness reduction, maintenance cost) and report progress to stakeholders.
• AI-Enabled Testing
  • Evaluate and introduce AI-assisted tooling for test generation, self-healing locators, test maintenance, and failure triage.
  • Pilot the use of LLM-based tools (e.g., AI test authoring, natural-language test creation, intelligent test selection) and codify responsible, effective usage patterns.
  • Build a roadmap for integrating AI into the broader QA workflow, balancing innovation with reliability and cost.
• CI/CD & Quality Infrastructure
  • Integrate Playwright suites into CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable feedback.
  • Drive improvements in test stability, reporting, observability, and defect prevention.

Knowledge and Experience

• 7+ years in software quality assurance / test automation, with 2+ years in a team lead or management capacity.
• Proven, hands-on experience with Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) and deep prior experience with Selenium (WebDriver).
• Demonstrated success leading a test automation framework migration or major modernization effort.
• Strong programming skills (TypeScript/JavaScript; Python or Java a plus).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and version control (Git).
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, and ideally mobile.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to testing workflows (test generation, self-healing, triage).
• Experience with performance, accessibility, or security testing.
• Background in regulated or high-reliability industries.

What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)

• A clear, stakeholder-approved migration plan with measurable milestones.
• A meaningful percentage of critical test suites migrated to Playwright with reduced flakiness and faster execution.
• At least one AI-assisted testing capability piloted and adopted by the team.
• A motivated, growing team operating under modern quality engineering standards.