Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

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.