Automation Test Lead/Manager(Playwrite/Tosca and ETL Testing)

IT Minds LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Minds LLC is seeking an Automation Test Lead/Manager in Houston, TX to lead a QA managed services organization focused on sustainability energy trading platforms. You will oversee functional testing, automation, and data validation across multiple projects, ensuring SLA attainment, governance, and strong quality metrics.

The role requires 12+ years of experience, hands-on direction in Playwright/Selenium/TOSCA, Snowflake SQL validation, and CI/CD integration.

Qualifications

• Lead QA delivery across multiple projects and teams.
• Define test strategy, planning, data setup, and defect management.
• Validate data in Snowflake and Power BI dashboards for accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Run a QA managed services organization covering functional testing, automation, and data validation.
• Own commitments and SLAs, staffing and capacity planning, budgets, and quality standards.
• Governance cadence: weekly reviews, monthly quality/metrics reviews, quarterly business reviews.
• Track defect leakage, test coverage, automation pass rates, and cycle time; address trends.
• Own escalations end-to-end from signal to corrective action plan.
• Forecast staffing demand and reallocate resources.
• Support presales with effort estimates and test approach.

Skills

Test Management

Automation Testing

Snowflake SQL validation

Data Validation

Test Strategy

ETL/pipeline reconciliation

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

TOSCA

JMeter

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Job Title: Automation Test Lead/Manager

Skills: Test Management, Automation Testing (Playwright/Selenium/TOSCA), Snowflake (SQL validation, ETL/pipeline reconciliation), Test Strategy, Data Validation, etc

Experience: 12+years

Hiring Type: Video Interview

Job Type: Long Term

Job Location: Houston, TX (Day One Onsite Job)

NOTE: Locals are highly recommended.

Role Summary

This role owns delivery for a QA managed services organization supporting a Sustainability Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) platform. The person in this seat runs a multi-project team spanning functional testing, automation, and data validation, and is accountable for SLAs, quality metrics, staffing, and client governance across the account. The role blends people leadership, hands-on technical direction across automation and data platforms, and domain depth in energy/sustainability trading and emissions workflows.

• Delivery and people leadership SLAs, governance cadence, staffing, escalations
• Automation testing Playwright/Selenium/TOSCA, CI/CD, API validation
• Snowflake SQL validation, ETL/pipeline reconciliation
• Power BI dashboard and report accuracy validation tied back to Snowflake data
• Sustainability ETRM domain trade/position/settlement concepts plus emissions and ESG reporting workflows

Delivery & People Leadership

• Run a QA managed services organization covering functional testing, automation, and data validation practice areas.
• Own commitments and SLAs, staffing and capacity planning, budgets, and quality standards for the account.
• Run the governance cadence: weekly project reviews with leads, monthly quality/metrics reviews, and quarterly business reviews with client stakeholders.
• Track defect leakage, test coverage, automation pass rates, and cycle time; act on adverse trends before they become client escalations.
• Own escalations end-to-end, from first signal through root cause and corrective action plan.
• Forecast staffing demand a quarter ahead and reallocate people across projects as priorities shift.
• Support presales and scope expansion with effort estimates, staffing models, and test approach.

Automation & Test Strategy

• Set technical direction for automation and continuous testing across the portfolio.
• Own test strategy, test planning, test case design, test data setup, defect management, and configuration management.
• Maintain and grow automated regression coverage using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, and/or TOSCA.
• Run performance, load, and non-functional testing (e.g., JMeter) where required.
• Validate REST/SOAP APIs and integrate automated checks into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Manage source control, branching, and pull request workflows in GitHub.
• Work with AWS-hosted environments for test execution and data validation (e.g., S3, EC2, Lambda, or equivalent services depending on the platform's architecture).

Data Validation: Snowflake & Power BI

• Write and review SQL-based validation queries against Snowflake to confirm data accuracy, completeness, and consistency across source and downstream systems.
• Validate ETL/ELT pipelines feeding Snowflake, including reconciliation between source systems and the warehouse.
• Review and validate Power BI reports and dashboards for data accuracy, ensuring metrics tie back to underlying Snowflake data.
• Design and enforce value-level and null checks across data pipelines, not just field-existence checks.

Domain: Sustainability & ETRM

• Apply working knowledge of Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) concepts: trade capture, positions, settlements, and risk reporting.
• Understand sustainability and emissions-reporting workflows (e.g., emissions monitoring, carbon accounting, ESG data flows) well enough to define acceptance criteria and test coverage without handholding from subject matter experts.
• Translate business and regulatory reporting requirements into test scenarios that catch real data and calculation errors.

AI-Assisted Testing

• Set standards for how AI coding/testing tools are used in delivery: what can be AI-generated, what always requires human review, and what stays off the tools entirely.
• Own quality checks on AI-generated test artifacts to ensure they validate actual business logic and data correctness.