QA Automation - Lead

Job Summary Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise-level QA automation strategy across UI, API, and mobile domains aligned with product and engineering goals.
• Establish governance, standards, and reusable framework libraries to ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability across teams.
• Lead multi-team automation initiatives, ensuring alignment with CI/CD, DevOps, and release management practices.
• Define KPIs such as automation coverage, test effectiveness, defect leakage, and cycle time, and drive continuous improvement.
• Accountable for automation ROI, defect leakage trends, and release confidence across programs.
• Drive adoption of advanced practices such as intelligent test selection, analytics-driven quality, and self-healing test strategies.
• Collaborate with architects and product stakeholders to ensure systems are designed for testability and observability.
• Oversee risk management, reporting, and audit readiness of QA processes across programs.
• Build and mentor high-performing automation teams and promote a culture of engineering excellence and quality-first mindset.

Behavioral Competencies

• Demonstrates leadership and accountability in driving quality outcomes.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders.
• Promotes a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
• Apply strategic thinking to manage quality risks and testing challenges.
• Makes informed decisions balancing quality, timelines, and business needs.
• Communicates effectively on quality status, risks, and dependencies.
• Encourages innovation and continuous learning within the QA team.
• Promotes a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Builds and mentors high-performing QA teams through coaching and guidance.
• Drives innovation, testing governance, quality best practices, compliance and excellence in testing processes.
• Maintains a customer-focused approach to delivering high-quality solutions.

Mandatory Competencies

• QA/QE - QA Automation - Web Analytics Testing
• QA/QE - QA Automation - Basic Build, Deployment and CI/CD
• QA/QE - QA Automation - Framework creation for testing
• QA/QE - QA Automation - Rest Assured
• QA/QE - QA Automation - BDD / Cucumber
• QA/QE - QA Automation - Playwright
• Data & AI - GEN AI - Advanced GenAI & Agentic Framework Concepts
• QA/QE - QA Automation - Junit
• QA/QE - QA Automation - Xpath
• QE - Risk Management
• Data & AI - Database - MS SQL

Skills Mandatory Skills

• API Automation
• Automation Framework Creation for Testing
• Continuous Integration (CI/CD)
• OOPS Concepts
• Test Reporting & Risk Management
• Web Analytics Testing
• Java
• Cucumber
• REST Assured
• Playwright
• Junit
• MS SQL

Additional Skills

• Advanced GenAI & Agentic Framework Concepts