Qa Automation Lead

C# strong programming experience for building and maintaining robust, maintainable automation frameworks and test scripts. • UFT (Unified Functional Testing) hands-on experience automating functional and regression tests for Windows desktop applications. • SilkTest demonstrated experience authoring and maintaining automated functional/regression scripts. • Silk Central practical experience using Silk Central for test management, execution, scheduling, and results reporting. • UI Automation/accessibility frameworks: working knowledge of UIA and MSAA, and the fragility of COM / UI automation in legacy desktop apps. • Test design and defect lifecycle: ability to design test cases with measurable, quantified acceptance criteria (e.g., launch time, CPU/memory ceilings, recognition accuracy baselines) rather than subjective pass/fail, and to drive defects from triage to closure. • Comfort working in a large, legacy enterprise Windows codebase with established patterns and constraints. If the candidate has experience in any one of the below languages is advantageous. Nice To Have Skills • Background in speech, audio, NLP, or accessibility products (a plus, not required if Windows desktop automation depth is strong). • Experience automating across Office integration surfaces (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) and WebView2-based surfaces relevant to New Outlook (Monarch) and Copilot. • Familiarity with installer-driven release risk, smoke-test gating, and regression exit criteria as delivery signals. • Exposure to performance, stability, and long-session validation for desktop applications. • Scripting beyond C# (e.g., PowerShell/Python) for test data, environment setup, and CI integration.