Lead QA Automation Engineer Job Description

Lead QA Automation Engineer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Lead QA Automation Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Managing and leading a team of QA Engineers;
  • Conceive, plan and prioritize data projects;
  • Ensure data quality and integrity;
  • Provide hands-on validation using manual methods;
  • Integrating automation and testing into the CI/CD pipeline for both regression, functional and integration testing;
  • Interpret and analyze data problems;
  • Perform initial debugging on test failures and read through the code;
  • Drive the building of test strategies & methodologies, automation and site monitoring focused on infrastructure and high availability;
  • Work with product, engineering teams in implementing & enforcing quality gates at each stage of pipeline;
  • Proactively identify and communicate risks and opportunities for improvement across all products and test frameworks;
  • Manage test data architecture definition and requests.

Requirements:

  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written a must;
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent;
  • Experience in implementing In-Sprint automation;
  • 5+ Automation experience (Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman, Jira) as a QE/SDET;
  • Experience with CI/CD technologies, such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket (or another Git server), and Jenkins;
  • Experience working on complex, large-scale projects;
  • 10+ years of experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of quality assurance standards for testing;
  • Excellent understanding of testing best practices and methodologies;
  • Extensive background supporting Quality Assurance programs in a mid to large size company;
  • 3+ years of experience as an automation lead with;
  • Ability to work under pressure in a multi-task environment;
  • Thirst of learning new technologies and their possible implementation talent work experience.