Lead QA Automation Engineer

What You’ll Do:

• Develop product expertise, and technical mastery, and lead a team.
• Clarify requirements & design effective solutions to complex problems.
• Ensure effective delegation to reach the delivery goals with high-quality output while team members are mentored and guided effectively
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues. Identify risks and form contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Evolve technical maturity and ability of the organization by applying new technology and practices through constant learning and innovation.
• Collaborate with teams in global locations and across functions in some cases. Communicate directly with the product and other stakeholders.
• Ensure team performance and inspire the team to grow their skills. Effectively mentor junior members of the team. 
• Follow the engineering processes, DevOps practices, and trends inside the company (monitoring, alerting, performance optimization, integration testing, design documentation) and make sure the teams improve related knowledge as well

Candidate Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with strong team leadership skills in either Java, Kotlin, or Python, or a combination thereof.
• Minimum 2 years experience with any UI automation tool like Selenium, Selenide, Cypress or Playwright
• Minimum 2 years experience with any API automation tool like RestAssured
• Should have worked on building automation frameworks and/or utilities for testing.
• Should have hands-on experience with any of the CI tools ex. Jenkins

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of cloud services on any major cloud (AWS/GCP/ Azure preferred)
• Experience with working on distributed architecture using MicroServices
• Experience with working on Dockers, K8s
• Some experience with performance testing ex K6
• Familiarity with the SCRUM framework