QA Automation Lead
- Minimum experience: Approximately 6 years
- Target experience: Around 10 years
- Must have hands-on experience with automation frameworks.
- Must understand automation framework development and be capable of creating/building frameworks.
- Should have experience leading or supporting other automation engineers.
- Lead role is approximately 80% hands-on.
- The Lead is expected to:
- Write automation code
- Build automation scripts for user stories
- Support Sprint delivery
- Provide technical guidance to Senior QA resources
- Help establish the overall QA automation vision
- Ensure QA delivery across multiple teams is aligned
- This is not a people-management-heavy role; technical leadership and hands-on automation are the priority.
- The current team structure is approximately 3 developers + 2 QA resources, with the Lead working alongside a Senior QA.
QA Automation – Core Requirements
- Strong hands-on automation experience is the biggest priority.
- Candidates must have an automation-first mindset and be actively contributing to automation on a day-to-day basis.
- Candidates should be writing automation scripts as part of their regular Sprint work rather than primarily performing manual testing and doing automation only when time permits.
- Current environment uses Selenium, but the team is actively migrating/adopting Playwright.
- Playwright + TypeScript is the first preference.
- Strong Selenium experience is acceptable, particularly:
- Selenium + C#
- Selenium + Java
- Candidates with strong Selenium backgrounds and approximately 2–3+ years of Playwright experience can be considered, provided the Playwright experience is genuinely hands-on.
- The team wants candidates who can demonstrate actual working knowledge rather than simply having Playwright listed on their resume.
Programming Skills
- Candidates should be technically strong in at least one programming language.
- Preferred/acceptable languages include:
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- C#
- Java
- Python
- The candidate does not necessarily need to have the exact target language if they have strong programming fundamentals.
- TypeScript is preferred, particularly with Playwright.
- The team is using AI/Copilot, so language switching is viewed as manageable for candidates with strong programming fundamentals.