Quality Assurance Automation Lead

Duration: Long-term

Responsibilities: Proven experience leading QA initiatives and driving an automation-first testing approach, improving test coverage, quality, and release efficiency across agile delivery teams. Strong expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks for web, mobile, API, and end-to-end testing, ensuring reliability, maintainability, and reusability. Hands-on experience with leading automation tools and frameworks including Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Detox, Jest, Cucumber/BDD, REST Assured, Postman, and Browser Stack, supporting automation across Web, React Native Mobile, REST/GraphQL APIs, and complex user journeys. Experience leveraging AI-assisted testing capabilities for automated test generation, test optimization, defect analysis, regression suite maintenance, and improving testing efficiency throughout the SDLC.Strong understanding of integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, implementing automated quality gates, and enabling continuous testing to support faster and more reliable software releases. Ability to lead by example, mentor QA engineers, establish automation best practices, promote BDD/TDD methodologies, and drive quality ownership across development and testing teams. Partner effectively with Product Managers, Developers, DevOps teams, and Business Stakeholders to ensure quality requirements are understood, test strategies are aligned, and release goals are achieved. Experience defining and tracking key quality metrics, including automation coverage, defect leakage, test effectiveness, and production quality indicators to drive continuous improvement.