Lead Automation Test Engineer

Job summary

Overview: Summary We are seeking a Lead Automation Test Engineer who is hands-on, customer-facing, and focused on enabling the QA team to effectively use AI tools to improve testing speed, quality, and efficiency.

Qualifications

• coverage gap identification.
• The ideal candidate has strong automation engineering experience, practical hands-on experience with modern AI testing
• coverage analysis.
• Lead modernization of the existing Selenium automation suite, including migration to Playwright using AI-assisted
• user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify automation coverage gaps and guide the team in closing them.
• Serve as a customer-facing technical lead who can explain, justify, and defend AI tool choices, migration strategy, framework design, and automation recommendations.
• Quickly produce prototypes, proof-of-concepts, sample migrations, and working automation to demonstrate value to the customer.
• Coach QA engineers and team members on effective use of AI
• and Education:
• Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 8–10 years of related experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on test automation experience.

Responsibilities

• What You'll Be Doing:
• Lead and drive a team of senior automation engineers, assigning, tracking, and following up on tasks to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
• Own delivery of customer commitments, working closely with the team to meet agreed timelines even amid ongoing enhancements and periodic production issues, and proactively communicating any deviations to the customer.
• Lead AI enablement for the QA/testing team by evaluating, piloting, and implementing AI
• a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key

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