Key Responsibilities

Automation Strategy & Execution

• Define and lead the end-to-end QA automation roadmap.
• Select and scale modern test frameworks for mobile, web, API, and microservices.
• Embed automated testing in CI/CD pipelines (AWS Pipeline, Jenkins).
• Drive test data strategy and environment readiness for automated runs.

Shift-Left & Continuous Testing

• Advocate for quality engineering from design to production.
• Introduce shift-left testing and coach and driving feature teams on writing reliable integration tests, component test and API and E2E Test.
• Collaborate with DevOps(Pipeline) Team to enable parallel test execution and fast feedback loops.

Quality Metrics & Insights

• Establish test coverage, pass rate, defect leakage KPIs, and trend dashboards.
• Provide actionable insights using tools like XRAY, TestRail, or custom dashboards.
• Review failures to root-cause issues and close quality gaps upstream.

Team Leadership & Coaching

• Lead and coaching a growing automation QA team across Portfolio.
• Pair testing sessions, and QA guilds with engineering team and QA Team to uplift skills and practices.
• Provide clear direction, feedback, and career guidance for QA Team.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Security to align on quality objectives.
• Ensure automation efforts scale across portfolio and platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Backend..).
• Lead initiatives that improve release confidence, cycle time, and regression resilience.

Requirements

Technical Skills

• 5+ years in test automation with 2+ years in a lead role.
• Solid coding skills in JavaScript, Java, Python, or similar for writing test scripts.
• Experience with frameworks like Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, or REST Assured.
• Familiar with BDD/TDD, service virtualization, and mocking/stubbing tools.
• Exposure to Microservices, Event-driven architecture, and Serverless functions.

Mindset & Experience

• Strong advocate of test automation as a product enabler, not a QA function.
• Experience in high-regulation environments (banking, fintech, payments preferred).
• Proven ability to lead through influence, clarity, and accountability.

Soft Skills

• Passionate communicator, motivator, and hands-on leader.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and introducing best practices.
• Curious, analytical, and always optimizing the test strategy for better coverage and speed.