QE Automation Lead

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🦀 Maryland, Virginia – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $117.8k - $189k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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📋 Description

• Own the automation strategy and technical direction across multiple QE teams, products, and delivery streams • Align quality priorities, delivery risks, and release-readiness expectations with Product, Development, DevOps, Architecture, and Leadership • Design, evolve, and govern scalable automation frameworks and reusable components using Playwright with TypeScript • Establish automation standards for test design, code quality, reviews, branching, test data, maintainability, reporting, and framework adoption • Develop, review, debug, and optimize automated tests across UI, API, integration, end-to-end, and data-validation layers • Integrate automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and move toward 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 • Use data and risk-based analysis to prioritize automation investment, identify quality gaps, and communicate product risk and release readiness • Lead root-cause analysis for complex failures and recurring defects • Mentor, coach, pair with, and grow QE engineers • Coordinate work across distributed teams, remove roadblocks, and drive consistent execution and accountability • Improve story testability, acceptance criteria, test planning, and in-sprint automation • Lead the transition from manual regression to automated regression • Evaluate emerging tools and AI-assisted testing approaches with governance and quality controls • Track fintech trends, regulatory considerations, cloud technologies, and modern quality-engineering practices

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software quality engineering, including three or more 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 designing, coding, debugging, and reviewing automation using Playwright with TypeScript or comparable modern technologies • Demonstrated success building scalable automation frameworks and reusable libraries across UI, API, integration, end-to-end, and data layers • Strong grasp 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 defining and communicating quality KPIs and using metrics to drive decisions, prioritization, and continuous improvement • Strong 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 mentoring, coaching, and technical-review skills • Excellent executive-level communication and stakeholder management • Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making skills • Solid command of Agile and Scrum, DevOps, shift-left testing, risk-based testing, and the full software development lifecycle • Experience with Jira, Confluence, Zephyr Scale, Git-based workflows, and modern CI/CD tooling • Working knowledge of security, accessibility, and performance testing principles • Financial services, regulated environments, or high-availability platform experience strongly preferred • Advanced Playwright and TypeScript, including reusable fixtures, page and component models, parallel execution, cross-browser testing, tracing, and reporting • Functional, regression, API, integration, end-to-end, contract, and data-validation automation • Salesforce and full-stack application testing • Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, REST/JSON, SQL, and backend validation • 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 nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive compensation eligibility 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 physical, mental, and financial well-being expenses • 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 • Pet and car insurance discounts • LegalShield financial services • Relaxation and stress management tools • Plum Benefits discounts on shows, travel, car rentals, and more • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,000 annually • Relevant conferences and career development events • Travel reimbursement for work-related travel • Paid time off and sick time • 401(k) through Fidelity with a 25% match on contributions, up to 6% of annual salary

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