Lead Test Automation Engineer

Oliver James Group; New York (NY); Sur place; USD 140 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Oliver James Group in New York, NY seeks an experienced Lead Test Automation Engineer to guide a small team and advance automation maturity across complex applications and delivery teams. This role blends hands-on technical work with strategic influence over automation frameworks, tooling, and strategy.

You will lead a 2-3 person automation team, design scalable frameworks, and own CI/CD integrations, while collaborating with engineering, product, DevOps, and QA teams to improve coverage and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of test automation or quality engineering experience across multiple applications or services.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring automation engineers.
• Experience designing and governing scalable frameworks with modern tools such as Playwright.
• Strong API testing experience with Postman, REST services, JSON.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and applying DevOps practices for cloud applications (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Broad knowledge of testing types (functional through performance) and strong debugging/root-cause analysis.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-influencing skills.

Responsabilités

• Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to automation engineers and analysts across delivery teams.
• Own the automation strategy, framework design, tooling decisions, and coding standards.
• Hands-on designing, building, and maintaining scalable automated tests across API, UI, integration, and regression testing.
• Own CI/CD integration, framework health, and execution reliability, driving efficiency and speed.
• Define and track metrics like coverage and test effectiveness; lead root-cause analysis to prevent issues.
• Communicate automation health, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Description du poste

Our client, a well-established national financial services organization, is seeking an experienced Lead Test Automation Engineer to guide a small team of automation engineers and advance automation maturity across complex applications and delivery teams. This is a chance to combine hands‑on technical work with real influence over automation strategy, frameworks, and tooling.

About the Role

The Lead Test Automation Engineer is a hands‑on technical leader responsible for guiding a team of 2-3 automation engineers. You'll lead the design, development, and ongoing improvement of scalable test automation frameworks, environments, and CI/CD integrations.

You’ll work with minimal supervision and partner closely with engineering, product, DevOps, architecture, business subject matter experts and QA teams to improve test coverage, reliability, performance and release confidence.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to automation engineers, test engineers, analysts, and interns, and act as the automation subject matter expert across delivery teams.
• Own the automation strategy, including framework design, tooling decisions, coding standards, and consistent adoption of quality engineering best practices.
• Stay hands‑on designing, building, and maintaining scalable automated tests across API, UI, integration, functional, regression, smoke, performance, and reliability testing, including code reviews and debugging.
• Own CI/CD integration, framework health, and execution reliability, and continuously improve efficiency, maintainability, and speed.
• Define and track meaningful metrics such as coverage, stability, failure trends, and test effectiveness, and lead root‑cause analysis to prevent recurring issues.
• Partner with development, QA, DevOps, architecture, product, business, and vendor teams, and communicate automation health, risks, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Help build an inclusive culture where every team member feels valued and different perspectives are welcomed.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of test automation or quality engineering experience, including hands‑on work building and maintaining automation across multiple applications or services.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring automation engineers.
• Strong experience designing and governing scalable frameworks, with advanced skills in modern tools such as Playwright.
• Strong API testing experience with Postman, REST services, JSON, and related validation frameworks.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and applying DevOps practices, including environment management and pipeline optimization, for cloud applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Broad knowledge of testing types (functional through performance and reliability) and strong debugging and root‑cause analysis skills across distributed systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder‑influencing skills, with a proactive mindset of owning automation strategy and continuous improvement.

If you're a hands‑on automation leader who enjoys building strong frameworks and developing the people around you, we'd like to hear from you.