Onshore QA Automation Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: Onshore QA Automation Lead

• Focus: QA strategy, test automation architecture, and CI/CD continuous testing for enterprise apps and services

Description

You will lead the quality engineering and test automation strategy for enterprise applications and services built with Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and Python. The role is hands-on and tool-agnostic, emphasizing automation architecture, test design, API/integration testing, maintainability, reliability, and quality engineering principles. You will also use AI-assisted engineering and testing tools responsibly, integrate automated testing into delivery pipelines, and mentor distributed QA teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA and test automation strategy, including risk-based functional, API, integration, end-to-end, regression, smoke, data validation, and performance testing where applicable

• Define quality standards, reusable automation patterns, coding/review practices, and measurable quality gates

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to onshore and offshore QA engineers

• Participate in architecture/solution design reviews to improve testability and observability early in the SDLC

• Design and maintain scalable, reusable, maintainable test automation frameworks

• Automate testing for REST APIs, microservices, and service-to-service integrations, including synchronous and asynchronous flows

• Implement contract, component, integration, and end-to-end testing at the appropriate layers

• Develop balanced UI end-to-end automation for critical web workflows using modern UI automation tools as needed

• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate test design, automation development, documentation, analysis, and traceability—while performing human validation and governance

• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast feedback and actionable diagnostics

• Develop repeatable test-data strategies and protect sensitive data

• Lead defect triage and root-cause analysis; track quality metrics such as coverage, flakiness rate, regression runtime, defect trends, and release readiness

• Collaborate across product, engineering, DevOps, QA, and vendor/offshore teams to align requirements, acceptance criteria, and production readiness

Benefits

Not specified in the provided posting.

Requirements

• 8+ years of overall IT/Quality Engineering experience

• 5+ years of hands-on test automation experience

• Demonstrated experience as a QA Lead, Test Automation Lead, SDET Lead, or Senior Quality Engineer

• Experience leading QA across distributed onshore/offshore teams

• Strong experience testing enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, and microservices

• Strong understanding of test automation architecture and framework design (testability, maintainability, reliability)

• Ability to evaluate and select automation technologies based on technical and business requirements

• Strong programming/scripting skills for production-quality test automation

• Experience with API testing, integration testing, regression automation, test-data management, mocking/stubbing, and automated reporting

• Understanding of CI/CD, version control, code review, debugging, logging, and modern software-delivery practices