Quality Assurance Lead - Automation Testing

Responsibilities :

• Define and uphold the standards for test quality across engineering squads, ensuring consistency and confidence in our releases.
• Oversee the work of our Automation QAs / SDeTs, and manual testers.
• Write high quality integration and end-to-end tests across our software portfolio.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and delivery leads to embed quality thinking from day one, and not as an after-thought.
• Design and oversee test strategies that combine automation, exploratory testing, and regression coverage.
• Drive the implementation and evolution of automated testing frameworks, ensuring integration into our CI / CD pipelines.
• Own the structure and health of test suites and regression packs, helping teams keep them lean, relevant, and valuable.
• Support squads in front-end, API, and end-to-end testing, using tools like Playwright, Cypress, and other modern frameworks.
• Facilitate and promote BDD and 3-amigos sessions, helping clarify requirements and prevent misunderstandings before they happen.
• Help engineers understand and own quality; coaching without gatekeeping, advising without blocking.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-squad functionality and integration is properly tested.
• Get involved in the testing cycle, helping to investigate issues, write tests, support on manual QAing, and signing-off skills and experience required :
• Strong background in quality assurance across automated and manual testing.
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Playright), and API testing tools (e.g. Postman, RestAssured).
• Confident writing automated tests in Typescript.
• Deep understanding of software development workflows, and how to embed quality within them.
• Youre comfortable performing and organising performance testing with tools such as K6, JMeter.
• Experience integrating tests into CI / CD pipelines and driving pipeline quality.
• Comfortable facilitating and contributing to BDD-style collaboration and 3-amigos sessions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills you're as comfortable pairing with an engineer as you are working with a product manager.
• Inquisitive, pragmatic, and curious.
• A mindset that priorities impact, reliability, and learning over perfectionism or the process for its own sake

(ref : hirist.tech)