Lead Automation Engineer

Vensure Employer Solutions; Thiruvananthapuram; In loco; INR 2.500.000 - 4.200.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Vensure Employer Solutions is seeking an experienced QA Leader to mentor a team of QA engineers, drive automation strategy, and ensure robust CI/CD integration. You will guide test architecture and optimize workflows across functional, regression, performance, and security testing.

The role requires 11+ years in QA with leadership experience and a strong track record in implementing QA processes, tooling, and stakeholder collaboration. Office-based role in India, with 1 PM-10 PM IST shift.

Competenze

• 11+ years in quality assurance with leadership exposure.
• Proven QA strategy, process, and method implementation.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Experience conducting code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder interaction.
• Deep QA principles and continuous improvement focus.

Mansioni

• Lead and mentor QA engineers and resolve automation challenges.
• Review automation designs, frameworks, and scripts.
• Drive continuous improvements and optimize automation workflows.
• Ensure CI/CD integration with test automation (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps).
• Define and report key automation metrics to measure efficiency.
• Oversee automation testing across functional, regression, performance and security testing.
• Identify and implement appropriate testing tools and plan test environments.
• Drive and manage test activities across all disciplines including performance and reliability.
• Develop and maintain Project Test Strategy Plan.
• Align test activities with SW-HW and third‑party components.
• Track testing activity and progress; manage resources and planning.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Mentoring

People management

Quality assurance

Automation leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Strumenti

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Descrizione del lavoro

Employment Type: Full-time / 5 Days a week

Shift Timing: 1 PM- 10 PM (IST)

Experience: 10+ years

Mode: Work from Office

Leadership & Team Development:

• Lead, mentor, and support QA engineers, helping resolve automation challenges.
• Conduct technical reviews of automation designs, frameworks, and scripts.
• Identify bottlenecks in automation workflows and drive continuous improvements.
• Manage testing resources, ensuring motivation and monitoring progress.
• Guide the team on best practices in test automation architecture and implementation.

Test Automation & Framework Development

• Review automation code quality and enforce clean, scalable coding practices.
• Ensure CI/CD integration with test automation in Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps.
• Maintain automation scripts, optimize test execution speed, and reduce maintenance overhead.
• Introduce new automation tools & techniques to enhance test efficiency
• Define, track, and report key automation metrics to measure efficiency.
• Oversee automation testing in functional, regression, performance, and security testing.
• Identify and implement appropriate testing tools and plan test environments efficiently.
• Drive and manage the test activities over all disciplines including performance, reliability.
• Develop and maintain Project Test Strategy Plan.
• Align all test activities within the test team, together with the SW- HW, and the Third party components.
• Responsible for tracking testing activity and progress
• Identifying testing tools and plan the test environments.
• Ensuring the appropriate planning and management of the test resources
• Assessing the progress and effectiveness of the test effort

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with developers, DevOps, and SW architects to align automation strategy.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of QA professionals, providing guidance and support to ensure their success and growth.
• Scrum through the issues and identify the real production blockers.
• Technically involve with test team and guide, coach, and mentor the team
• Mange the testing resources and ensure team is motivated and monitor testing tasks progress.

Requirements:

• 11+ years of experience in quality assurance, with at least [3] years in a managerial or leadership role.
• Proven track record of success in developing and implementing QA strategies, processes, and methodologies.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve excellence.
• Experience in conducting code reviews, architecture discussions, and framework design.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with stakeholders at all levels.
• In-depth knowledge of QA principles, practices, and tools, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.