QA Automation Lead

We are accelerating our expansion in R&D and product development. We're looking for an Automation QA Lead to own automation strategy and architecture across our products — building the frameworks, tooling, and standards the whole QA org relies on, and leading and growing a team of automation engineers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: your leverage comes both from the systems you build and the engineers you make better.

Responsibilities

• Own automation strategy, architecture, and standards across multiple products and projects.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of automation engineers — success is measured by them outperforming and outgrowing you.
• Design and evolve scalable test frameworks and tooling that the whole QA org adopts.
• Drive AI-augmented automation across the team (AI-assisted test generation, maintenance, and triage) and hold AI competency as a baseline standard.
• Own automation coverage, reliability, and test infrastructure — CI/CD integration, reporting, and flaky-test reduction.
• Set and continuously raise the technical bar for automation code craftsmanship across the team.
• Partner with developers, product managers, architects, and QA Leads to embed quality and automation into delivery.
• Stay hands-on — write and review automation code, unblock the team, and set standards by example.
• Help build the automation talent bench — contribute actively to hiring and keep a pipeline of strong candidates warm.

Requirements

• 6+ years in test automation with deep hands-on expertise in Playwright and TypeScript (or a strong equivalent), including test framework architecture.
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and growing automation engineers.
• AI competency (required). Fluent in applying AI tools to automation and driving their adoption across the team. This is a baseline expectation, not a plus.
• Alignment with company core values (required). High autonomy, high ownership, and a bar-raising mindset.
• Multiplier track record — you build tooling and grow people whose combined impact far exceeds your own output.
• Strong programming fundamentals and a strong advocate of code craftsmanship and quality deliverables.
• CI/CD, test infrastructure, and DevOps tooling experience.
• Runs the automation function autonomously — creates clarity and standards with minimal oversight, no hand-holding.
• Actively seeks and hires people who challenge and stretch the team — hires for capability and growth, not for control.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; communicate well in English.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling an automation practice through rapid team growth.
• Performance, security, or load automation experience.
• MarTech or high-scale platform experience.

Note: This is a full-time job. Concurrent freelance, part-time, consulting is not permitted