QE Automation Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the automation strategy and technical direction across various QE teams, products, and delivery streams.

• Align quality priorities, delivery risks, and release-readiness expectations with Product, Development, DevOps, Architecture, and Leadership teams.

• Design, refine, and manage scalable automation frameworks and reusable components leveraging Playwright with TypeScript.

• Establish automation standards for test design, code quality, reviews, branching, test data, maintainability, reporting, and framework adoption.

• Create, review, debug, and enhance automated tests across UI, API, integration, end-to-end, and data-validation layers.

• Integrate automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, moving towards automation in the Definition of Done.

• Define and report quality and automation metrics, including coverage, pass rate, defect trends, escape rate, flaky-test rate, execution time, and automation effectiveness.

• Utilize data and risk-based analysis to prioritize automation investments, identify quality gaps, and communicate product risk and release readiness.

• Lead root-cause analysis for complex failures and recurring defects.

• Mentor, coach, collaborate with, and develop QE engineers.

• Coordinate efforts across distributed teams, eliminate roadblocks, and drive consistent execution and accountability.

• Enhance story testability, acceptance criteria, test planning, and in-sprint automation.

• Spearhead the transition from manual regression to automated regression.

• Assess emerging tools and AI-assisted testing methods with governance and quality controls.

• Stay informed on fintech trends, regulatory considerations, cloud technologies, and modern quality-engineering practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software quality engineering, including three or more years leading automation initiatives or providing technical leadership across multiple teams.

• Proven ability to lead, influence, and align distributed QE teams without relying solely on direct reporting relationships.

• Advanced hands-on experience in designing, coding, debugging, and reviewing automation with Playwright using TypeScript or comparable modern technologies.

• Demonstrated success in building scalable automation frameworks and reusable libraries across UI, API, integration, end-to-end, and data layers.

• Strong understanding of software architecture, object-oriented programming, test design patterns, clean code, and maintainable automation practices.

• Experience integrating automation with CI/CD platforms and implementing quality gates, parallel execution, cross-browser coverage, reporting, and failure diagnostics.

• Experience in defining and communicating quality KPIs and utilizing metrics to drive decisions, prioritization, and continuous improvement.

• Extensive knowledge of API testing, test-data management, backend validation, SQL, and service-integration testing.

• Experience testing Salesforce solutions and full-stack applications across UI, API, integration, and data layers.

• Proven skills in mentoring, coaching, and conducting technical reviews.

• Excellent executive-level communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making skills.

• Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies, DevOps, shift-left testing, risk-based testing, and the complete software development lifecycle.

• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Zephyr Scale, Git-based workflows, and modern CI/CD tools.

• Working knowledge of security, accessibility, and performance testing principles.

• Experience in financial services, regulated environments, or high-availability platforms is strongly preferred.

• Advanced skills in Playwright and TypeScript, including reusable fixtures, page and component models, parallel execution, cross-browser testing, tracing, and reporting.

• Experience in functional, regression, API, integration, end-to-end, contract, and data-validation automation.

• Proficiency in Salesforce and full-stack application testing.

• Skills in Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, REST/JSON, SQL, and backend validation.

• Familiarity with GitHub or Bitbucket, pull-request workflows, and Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or comparable CI/CD tools.

• Relevant certifications such as ISTQB, AWS, Agile, or DevOps are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual incentive compensation eligibility of up to 10% annually.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and employer-paid vision plans through UnitedHealthcare.

• UHC perks including Sweat Equity, free Calm App subscription, UHC rewards, Real Appeal, and Quit For Life.

• Flexible Spending Account.

• Lifestyle Spending Account for expenses related to physical, mental, and financial well-being.

• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.

• Voluntary supplemental life insurance and enhanced disability coverage.

• Colonial Accident and Hospitalization insurance.

• Paid maternity and parental leave.

• Commuter benefits.

• LifeBalance membership and discounts on outdoor activities, arts, health, and fitness.

• Discounts on pet and car insurance.

• LegalShield financial services.

• Tools for relaxation and stress management.

• Plum Benefits discounts on shows, travel, car rentals, and more.

• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,000 annually.

• Opportunities to attend relevant conferences and career development events.

• Travel reimbursement for work-related travel.

• Paid time off and sick leave.

• 401(k) plan through Fidelity with a 25% match on contributions, up to 6% of annual salary.