Automation Lead

IPolarity; Hanover Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IPolarity is seeking an experienced Automation Lead for an onsite role in Charlotte, NC. You will mentor a testing team, design and implement scalable test automation frameworks, and guide adoption of DevOps practices across projects.

Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, Python, Selenium and Playwright, with strong API testing and CI/CD experience, is required. You will collaborate with stakeholders to deliver reliable quality across web, services and mobile platforms.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of QE and Test automation hands-on experience.
• Proficient in Java and JavaScript with UI, API and mobile automation.
• Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks with CI/CD.
• Ability to mentor team and drive engineering metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead the automation team and drive client solutions and proposals.
• Build scalable test automation frameworks and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop dashboards and reports for engineering metrics and program health.
• Adopt DevOps culture and guide automation strategy across projects.

Skills

Java

JavaScript

Python

Selenium

Playwright

REST Assured

CI/CD

Cucumber

Jenkins

GitHub

Maven

Angular

Spring Boot

Microservices

GenAI Copilot

Rally

Tools

Rally

Job description

Job Title: Automation Lead Location: Onsite in Charlotte, NC Work type: W2

Job Description/ Responsibilities/ Years of experience:

• Strong technical skillset with minimum 12+ yrs. experience in test automation across the Tech stack – Web/middleware/database.


• Experience in UI, Web services and mobile automation.


• Experience in building custom solutions across Test life cycle – Design/Develop/Test.


• Perform continuous research in Market Trends, arrange mind share sessions with client on new solutions


• Provide automation thought leadership and implement new solutions and framework.


• Must have 5+ yrs. programming skills in Java, experience in developing new solutions & build/enhance test automation frameworks


• Mentor the team, build new solutions


• Experience in building engineering metrics and building root cause analysis reports


• Lead the team, adopt to DevOps culture, build scalable test automation suite with continuous integration/testing for applications

What are the top skills required for this role?

• 12+ yrs. of QE and Test automation hands-on experience


• Tech stack
  
  
  
  • Strong knowledge on Java, Jscript
  
  
  • Good knowledge in Python
  
  
  • Strong knowledge Test automation engine – Selenium, Playwright
  
  
  • Strong knowledge in API – REST Assured or other frameworks
  
  
  • CI & build tools - Cucumber, Jenkins, Github, Mavens
  
  
  
  


• Experience in building new Framework & solid understanding of Angular frameworks, spring boot micro-services & Mule gateway


• Exposure to GenAI – Copilot or other LLM’s


• Hands on experience on test management tools like Rally or other platform tools


• Experience in custom solutions like dashboard to report on engineering metrics, program health


• Ability to lead automation team and drive client solutions and proposals


• Multi location team handling capabilities