Lead AI-Driven Test Automation Engineer

Karsun Solutions, LLC; Kentucky; On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Karsun Solutions, LLC is seeking a Lead Automation Test Engineer who will lead a team of senior automation engineers, drive AI adoption across test automation, and deliver on customer commitments. The role includes modernizing the Selenium suite, migrating to Playwright with AI-assisted tooling, and coaching the team in AI-driven testing practices.

The successful candidate will be hands-on, capable of producing prototypes and migrations quickly, and will professionally communicate with customers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 8-10 years of related experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on test automation experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading and driving automation teams, including task planning, follow-up, and on-time delivery of customer commitments while managing competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive a team of senior automation engineers, assigning, tracking, and following up on tasks to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
• Own delivery of customer commitments, working closely with the team to meet agreed timelines even amid ongoing enhancements and periodic production issues, and proactively communicating any deviations to the customer.
• Lead AI enablement for the QA/testing team by evaluating, piloting, and implementing AI tools that improve productivity and automation quality.
• Establish reusable prompt templates and AI-assisted workflows for test generation, automation development, Selenium-to-Playwright migration, API testing, failure triage, flaky test analysis, and requirements coverage analysis.
• Lead modernization of the existing Selenium automation suite, including migration to Playwright using AI-assisted tools and reusable framework patterns.
• Provide hands-on automation leadership for functional, integration, API, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Analyze the current regression suite and implement improvements to reduce flaky tests, long execution cycles, and manual triage effort.
• Use AI-assisted methods to analyze high-level requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify automation coverage gaps and guide the team in closing them.
• Serve as a customer-facing technical lead who can explain, justify, and defend AI tool choices, migration strategy, framework design, and automation recommendations.
• Quickly produce prototypes, proof-of-concepts, sample migrations, and working automation to demonstrate value to the customer.
• Coach QA engineers and team members on effective use of AI tools, prompt templates, Playwright, automation standards, and quality engineering practices.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, Scrum Masters, DevOps engineers, business stakeholders, and customer representatives in a SAFe Agile environment.
• Create and maintain concise documentation, including automation standards, AI usage guidance, prompt libraries, migration approach, and tool evaluation summaries.

Skills

Automation leadership

AI testing tools

Test automation

Selenium

Playwright

CI/CD

QA coordination

Customer-facing

Prompt engineering

Java/JS/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Selenium WebDriver/Grid

Playwright

Cucumber/Gherkin

JUnit

TestNG

Postman

REST Assured

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Karsun Solutions, LLC is seeking a Lead Automation Test Engineer who will lead a team of senior automation engineers, drive AI adoption across test automation, and deliver on customer commitments. The role includes modernizing the Selenium suite, migrating to Playwright with AI-assisted tooling, and coaching the team in AI-driven testing practices.

The successful candidate will be hands-on, capable of producing prototypes and migrations quickly, and will professionally communicate with customers