QA Automation Engineer, Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina.

📋 Description

• Establish the written criteria that define what it means for an environment to achieve QA certification.

• Develop a distinct pass/fail threshold for certifying environments across services, integrations, and platform-level workflows.

• Clarify the meaning of integration coverage within a distributed service architecture.

• Design templates for necessary evidence, test results, service readiness, coverage expectations, and approval processes.

• Define terminology, ownership, and expectations to ensure alignment among engineering, QA, and leadership teams.

• Evaluate the current landscape of automated acceptance and integration testing across numerous services.

• Determine which services possess adequate automated coverage and which have coverage gaps.

• Gain insights into existing test harnesses, Jenkins orchestration, service-level acceptance tests, and team-specific testing methodologies.

• Specify how automated tests should be triggered, monitored, reported, and utilized as certification evidence.

• Assist in designing a strategy for executing acceptance and integration tests in a more centralized, consistent, and reliable manner.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to address missing or outdated test automation.

• Define how test tenants, test data, and end-to-end processes should be engaged during certification.

• Ensure that the certification process validates not only individual services but also significant cross-service interactions.

• Create or direct the development of coverage matrix templates that outline which services, workflows, tenants, and integrations are being tested.

• Help pinpoint high-risk integration areas and prioritize automation efforts accordingly.

• Act as the technical authority for the QA certification standard.

• Collaborate closely with QA, engineering, infrastructure, and delivery stakeholders to foster consensus on the certification strategy.

• Assist teams in understanding the artifacts required and the evidence necessary for sign-off.

• Lead technical discussions regarding testing gaps, automation feasibility, and certification risks.

• Facilitate cross-team adoption of the standard while avoiding bureaucratic processes.

• Help transition from fragmented testing practices to a cohesive certification program.

• Produce clear documentation for QA certification workflows, necessary artifacts, evidence templates, coverage expectations, and escalation procedures.

• Define procedures for addressing missed testing windows, incomplete coverage, or failed certification checks.

• Contribute to building a foundation for compliance tracking across services and teams.

• Support leadership sign-off by clearly presenting risks, gaps, and readiness.

• Contribute to a repeatable process that minimizes manual coordination and enhances stakeholder confidence in platform readiness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in QA automation, quality engineering, test architecture, SDET leadership, or comparable roles.

• Extensive experience in defining QA automation strategies for complex software platforms.

• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, service-oriented architectures, or large enterprise platforms.

• Practical experience in automated acceptance testing, integration testing, API testing, and CI/CD test execution.

• Proficiency in Java and/or Python-based test automation environments.

• Familiarity with Jenkins or similar CI/CD orchestration tools.

• Experience with custom test harnesses, legacy test frameworks, or varied testing stacks.

• Proven ability in creating test coverage matrices, evidence templates, quality gates, and release certification criteria.

• Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams and unifying diverse groups around a common standard.

• Experience in enterprise delivery, platform certification, SAP-adjacent delivery, or large-scale environment validation is a plus.

• Experience leading QA transformation, test standardization, or automation maturity initiatives is a significant plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere in LATAM