Senior QA Automation Lead | Hybrid (Kraków)

First Advantage Global operating Centre; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

First Advantage Global operating Centre is seeking a QA Automation Team Lead to provide technical leadership, elevate automation strategy, and drive quality across a modern distributed SaaS ecosystem. You will define best practices, lead automation architecture, and mentor a global QA team to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

The role involves ownership of quality metrics, integration with CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, and collaboration with product, engineering, and architecture teams

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of hands-on QA automation or test engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading automation strategy, frameworks, or quality engineering initiatives.
• Advanced proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript‑based automation.
• Expertise with WebdriverIO and/or Playwright (primary tools).
• Strong experience testing distributed systems, microservices architectures, API communication flows, and event‑driven platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define the automation vision, roadmap, and architectural standards across multiple products and services.
• Design scalable, reusable automation frameworks (UI, API, microservices, contract, and integration levels).
• Oversee automation framework consolidation, standardization, and governance across teams.
• Evaluate emerging tools and technologies to modernize our automation ecosystem.
• Mentor, coach, and upskill QA engineers across multiple locations and teams.
• Conduct technical reviews of frameworks, test design, test architecture, and automation code.
• Champion engineering best practices around observability, CI/CD quality gates, digital‑first testing, and shift‑left quality.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce manual effort and increase automation efficiency and reliability.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define quality KPIs, metrics, and measurement frameworks.
• Ensure automation integrates effectively into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and product managers to establish quality strategies, risk‑based test approaches, and acceptance criteria.

Skills

QA leadership

JavaScript/TypeScript

WebdriverIO

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

SQL

Tools

GitHub

BrowserStack

Sauce Labs

Job description

First Advantage Global operating Centre is seeking a QA Automation Team Lead to provide technical leadership, elevate automation strategy, and drive quality across a modern distributed SaaS ecosystem. You will define best practices, lead automation architecture, and mentor a global QA team to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

The role involves ownership of quality metrics, integration with CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions, and collaboration with product, engineering, and architecture teams