Lead Test Automation Architect

Symetra; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

401(k) with company match

Paid time off & holidays

Company matching donations

Job summary

Symetra is seeking a Lead Test Automation Engineer to guide a small team of automation engineers and advance automation maturity across complex applications. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks, environments, and CI/CD integrations while collaborating with engineering, product, DevOps, and QA teams to improve test coverage and release confidence.

The role combines hands-on framework development with mentoring across delivery teams and accountability for

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of relevant test automation or quality engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining automation solutions across multiple applications, products, or services.
• Proven experience leading automation engineers and providing technical mentoring and guidance.
• Strong experience designing and governing scalable automation frameworks, including coding standards, test strategy, framework architecture, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide technical direction to a team of automation engineers.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test strategies, frameworks, and scripts supporting API, UI, integration, functional, regression, smoke, performance, and reliability testing.
• Recommend and help standardize automation frameworks, test environments, tools, coding practices, and implementation patterns.
• Drive automation strategy, framework design, solution planning, CI/CD integration, and tooling decisions for major initiatives.
• Remain hands-on with framework development, test implementation, code reviews, debugging, and technical problem-solving.
• Mentor automation engineers, Software Test Engineers, analysts, and interns, and serve as an automation subject matter expert across delivery teams.
• Lead the consistent adoption of automation and quality engineering best practices.
• Own automation framework health, pipeline integration, execution reliability, and communication of automation risks, gaps, and progress to leadership.
• Define and track meaningful automation metrics, including coverage, execution results, stability, failure trends, and test effectiveness.
• Lead root-cause analysis for complex automation failures, framework issues, and recurring defects, and implement improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Identify and implement improvements that increase automation efficiency, maintainability, scalability, and execution speed.Partner with development, QA, DevOps, architecture, product teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to support high-quality delivery.
• Communicate technical recommendations, automation health, delivery risks, and improvement opportunities to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Skills

Lead automation

Automation frameworks

CI/CD

API testing

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Pytest

Postman

Python

Cloud testing

Tools

Postman

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Pytest

Job description

Symetra is seeking a Lead Test Automation Engineer to guide a small team of automation engineers and advance automation maturity across complex applications. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks, environments, and CI/CD integrations while collaborating with engineering, product, DevOps, and QA teams to improve test coverage and release confidence.

The role combines hands-on framework development with mentoring across delivery teams and accountability for