Platform Owner (Automation testing)

Chubb; San Pedro Garza García; Presencial; MXN 1,471,000 - 1,839,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An international insurance firm is seeking a Platform Owner for Testing Automation located in Mexico. This role involves driving the vision and strategy for testing automation initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience as a Product Owner, strong skills in testing strategies, and familiarity with automation tools like Playwright and Selenium. Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential for success in this role.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience as Product Owner leading testing automation teams.
• Strong knowledge on STLC and defining automation strategies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Establish a clear vision for the testing automation strategy.
• Create and maintain a backlog of automation user stories.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements for automation.

Conocimientos

Test Strategy and Plan definition

Testing automation expertise

Agile methodologies

Collaboration

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Herramientas

Playwright

Newman

Selenium

Descripción del empleo

The Platform Owner for Testing Automation is responsible for defining and driving the vision, strategy, and execution of testing automation initiatives as part of the SDLC. This role ensures that automation efforts align with business goals, improve software quality, and enhance the efficiency of the development lifecycle.

The Platform Owner acts as the bridge between Stakeholders, Technical Leaders and Quality Engineers, prioritizing automation tasks to deliver maximum value. Advocate for the adoption of automation to improve testing efficiency, reduce manual effort, and enhance product quality.

This position is responsible for the defining and driving the vision and strategy for testing automation initiatives, best practices and translate it into a prioritized product backlog that leads into its execution and delivery, aligned to business needs.

Responsibilities

The person in this role will be accountable for:

• Establishing a clear vision for the testing automation strategy, ensuring it aligns with the organization's quality assurance goals, best practices, development processes, and overall product objectives.
• Creating, prioritizing, and maintaining a backlog of automation user stories, such as test scripts, framework adoption, and tools implementation, ensuring the team focuses on the most impactful areas for the company.
• Prioritizing testing automation efforts based on business value, frequency of use, and potential time savings.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders acting as the bridge between Quality Engineers and business to gather requirements for automation and ensure alignment with broader product goals.
• Clearly articulating the scope of automation, including test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and expected outcomes, to guide the automation team
• Ensuring the adoption of testing automation practices and tools

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• IT professional with 5+ years of experience as Product Owner, leading testing automation teams
• Experience with project management and business analysis skills
• Strong knowledge on STLC and experience on Test Strategy and Plan definition to automate testing.
• Experience in defining the product vision and strategy and translate it into a prioritized product backlog.
• Testing automation expertise in tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Newman, Selenium
• Previous experience in programming languages and managing development teams.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and DevOps practices
• Strong teamwork and collaboration abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills required