Senior Test Automation Lead - Frameworks & CI/CD

Net Impact

Bellevue, Northern (WA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 129,000 - 215,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommu

401(k) plan with company matching

Paid time away including vacation, PTO

Company matching charitable giving

Job summary

Symetra seeks 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 improve scalable test automation frameworks, environments, and CI/CD integrations, partnering with engineering, product, DevOps, architecture, and QA teams to improve test coverage, reliability, and release confidence.

The role emphasizes hands-on framework development, mentoring, and owning automation health, with

Qualifications

Eight or more years of relevant test automation or quality engineering experience.
Significant 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.
Advanced experience with modern automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or Pytest.
Strong API testing and automation experience using tools and technologies such as Postman, REST services, JSON, and related API validation frameworks.
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline design, execution controls, metrics, and governance.
Strong knowledge of functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, smoke, performance, and reliability testing.

Responsibilities

Lead and provide technical direction to a team of automation engineers.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test strategies, frameworks, and scripts.
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 SME across delivery teams.
Lead adoption of automation and quality engineering best practices.
Own automation framework health, pipeline integration, execution reliability, and communicate automation risks to leadership.
Define and track automation metrics and root-cause analysis for failures; implement improvements.
Identify improvements to increase automation efficiency, maintainability, scalability, and execution speed.
Partner with development, QA, DevOps, architecture, product teams, business stakeholders, and vendors.