QA Automation Lead

Own the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated test frameworks covering UI, API, and end-to-end testing;
Lead a small team of QA engineers, providing hands-on guidance, code reviews, and day-to-day direction;
Take responsibility for test coverage across assigned product areas, ensuring regressions are caught before they reach production;
Build and maintain performance test scripts that are reusable, version controlled, and easy to update as the product changes;
Integrate and maintain automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines, owning the feedback loop for your team;
Define and enforce testing standards, processes, and documentation within the squad;
Collaborate with developers and product managers to review requirements and translate them into thorough test plans;
Own defect triage and test failure analysis, coordinating directly with engineers to drive resolution;
Continuously improving test reliability, speed, and coverage, proactively flagging risks to engineering leads;

6+ years of QA automation experience, with demonstrated ownership of a test automation codebase;
Solid hands-on experience with frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium;
Strong proficiency in TypeScript and/or JavaScript for writing and maintaining test scripts;
Proven experience owning CI/CD-integrated test pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar);
Solid API testing experience using tools such as Postman or Supertest;
Familiarity with RESTful API and WebSocket testing for real-time features;
Good understanding of Git workflows and agile delivery practices;
Strong communicators who can represent quality concern clearly to developers and product stakeholders;
Ownership mentality — takes accountability for test outcomes and drives issues through to resolution;
Organized and methodical, able to manage workload across multiple features and release cycles;
Collaborative team lead who enjoys growing junior engineers and raising the quality bar;

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