Senior Test Automation Lead – AI-Driven QA & Frameworks

Blackstone Technology Group; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone Talent Group seeks a Senior Software Test Automation Engineer to lead a team of automation engineers, define the automation strategy, and manage the automation framework for client projects. The role requires hands-on scripting and collaboration with business analysts, developers, and DevOps to ensure high-quality releases.

The candidate will develop automated tests using Selenium and JMeter, create performance scripts, and interact with clients during testing phases to resolve

Qualifications

• Experience with manual functional, regression, usability, integration, remote access, and accessibility testing.
• Experience developing automation scripts from scratch with programming code (Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.) and experience developing an automation framework from scratch.
• Experience using AI throughout testing process to generate test plans, cases, automation, and test reports.
• Some experience with developing performance scripts from scratch with programming code.
• Web services testing: experience developing scripts using web services tool.
• Serving as SME in SQL, DB, back-end testing
• Experience developing level of effort estimates and testing schedules for own work and others, and authoring test plans, test case scripting and test summary reports
• Experience testing in an Agile development environment using tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Zephyr Scale to develop/execute functional and regression test scripts, Requirements Traceability, and manage defects

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of test automation engineers and define the automation strategy.
• Manage the automation framework and test plans.
• Create and review test scripts and perform peer reviews.
• Coordinate with developers, analysts and DevOps to ensure quality releases.
• Report test results to management and support UAT with clients.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation scripting

AI-assisted testing

Agile testing

Tools

Selenium

JMeter

SQL

Java

JavaScript

Python

Job description

Blackstone Talent Group seeks a Senior Software Test Automation Engineer to lead a team of automation engineers, define the automation strategy, and manage the automation framework for client projects. The role requires hands-on scripting and collaboration with business analysts, developers, and DevOps to ensure high-quality releases.

The candidate will develop automated tests using Selenium and JMeter, create performance scripts, and interact with clients during testing phases to resolve