QA Automation Lead/Architect

Role Overview

As a QA Automation Lead/Architect, you will shape and elevate the quality engineering vision across our engineering organization. You will artichest, build and maintain scalable, high-performance automated testing frameworks thta guarantee application reliability. Your focus spans mobile automation using Appium and modern web validation using Playwright, establishing a cohesive end-to-end testing ecosystem

Key Responsibilities 

• Framework Architecture: Design, build, and scale multi-platform automation frameworks from scratch for native mobile (iOS/Android) and web applications. 

• Test Strategy & Execution:  Establish risk-based testing strategies, quality metrics, and automated suites for mobile apps (Appium) and modern web platforms (Playwright)

• CI/CD & Pipeline Optimization: Integrate automated test suites directly into deployment pipelines to deliver fast, actionable feedback and shrink release cycles.

• Reliability & Flake Reduction:  Proactively analyze failure trends, eliminate flaky tests, and execute root-cause diagnostics across test environments.

• Collaboration: Partner with Developers, Delivery Leads, and Platform Engineers to align on testability requirements and the "Definition of Done."

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Evangelize quality engineering best practices, lead code reviews, and elevate the team-wide testing mindset.

Required Skills & Qualifications 

• Mobile Automation: 4+ years of hands-on experience designing mobile automation frameworks using Appium (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Java).

• Web Automation: Deep, production-level experience building resilient test suites with Playwright (preferred) or Cypress

• Programming: Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, or Java) with solid Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Page Object Model (POM) design patterns.

• API & Microservices: Extensive experience testing RESTful/GraphQL APIs and validating microservices architectures

• Cloud & Infrastructure: Practical familiarity with cloud execution infrastructure (e.g., BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, or AWS Device Farm)

• Dev Ops & Tools:  Proficient with Git branching strategies, CI/CD runners (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and issue tracking (Jira/Azure DevOps)