Senior Test Automation Lead - Frameworks, API & CI/CD

IPI Technolab; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IPI Technolab seeks an experienced QA Automation Lead to design and drive scalable automation for web, API, and mobile apps. You will lead framework development, define standards, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, while mentoring QA/instrumentation teams.

The role requires strong coding skills in Java/Python/JavaScript, deep API/UI automation expertise, and experience with CI/CD tools. Collaboration across product, DevOps, and QA teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• 5 to 10 years of software testing/QA with hands-on test automation experience.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring QA automation teams.
• Strong programming in Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on expertise with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent.
• Strong API automation experience with REST Assured, Postman/Newman, Karate, or similar.
• Experience building scalable, maintainable automation frameworks from ground up.
• Knowledge of Page Object Model, data-driven, keyword-driven, BDD, and hybrid architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tools.
• Knowledge of Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
• Good SQL, databases, REST APIs, JSON/XML, and microservices.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and modern practices.
• Appium exposure is a plus.
• Performance testing tools like JMeter/Gatling a plus.
• Cloud-based testing, containerization, and distributed test execution.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted testing and AI coding tools a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, implementation, and maintenance of scalable test automation frameworks for web, API, mobile, and enterprise apps.
• Define automation strategy, roadmap, standards, and best practices across projects.
• Develop robust automated test scripts using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST Assured, Appium, or similar.
• Design and maintain automation frameworks using Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Drive continuous improvement of test coverage, speed, reliability, maintainability, and ROI.
• Lead API, UI, regression, smoke, integration, end-to-end, and cross-browser automation initiatives.
• Enable parallel and distributed test execution to reduce cycle time.
• Collaborate with developers, PMs, BAs, DevOps, and other QA teams through SDLC.
• Review requirements for automation opportunities and quality improvements.
• Perform code reviews and establish coding and framework standards.
• Troubleshoot failures, identify root causes, improve framework stability.
• Manage test data, environments, configuration, and automation dependencies.
• Establish QA metrics, dashboards, and health indicators for stakeholders.
• Mentor and guide QA engineers and automation engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Automation

Java

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

CI/CD

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

Appium

REST APIs

SQL

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

Appium

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Docker

Job description

IPI Technolab seeks an experienced QA Automation Lead to design and drive scalable automation for web, API, and mobile apps. You will lead framework development, define standards, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, while mentoring QA/instrumentation teams.

The role requires strong coding skills in Java/Python/JavaScript, deep API/UI automation expertise, and experience with CI/CD tools. Collaboration across product, DevOps, and QA teams is essential.