LEAD Automation Tester

Senior QA Automation Lead Engineer (Hands-On)*

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Lead Engineer with a strong QE mindset and proven hands-on automation experience to drive quality engineering for a modern e-commerce platform built on microservices architecture. This role requires building automation capabilities from the ground up, embedding testing into CI/CD pipelines, and taking ownership of automation execution across the QE function while remaining actively hands-on.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead and execute QA automation efforts for large-scale e-commerce applications supporting high-traffic, transactional workflows.

Design, build, and maintain automation test suites from scratch, including UI, API, and end-to-end coverage.

- Convert manual testing workflows into scalable, maintainable automated tests.

- Implement end-to-end automation integrated with microservices-based CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous deployment.

- Integrate automation suites with GitLab CI/CD, including parallel execution and pipeline-level quality gates.

- Collaborate closely with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to embed quality throughout the SDLC.

- Define and enforce automation standards, test strategy, and coverage expectations.

- Provide hands-on guidance and support to QE engineers on automation implementation.

- Drive shift-left testing practices and early defect detection.

- Ensure automation stability, reliability, and fast feedback in CI pipelines.

- Take full ownership of automation implementation, maintenance, and outcomes.

- Hands-on ownership of smoke test automation and load/performance testing, including executing dry runs in production environments as needed to validate system readiness and stability.

- Build, maintain, and support synthetic monitoring using observability platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, or equivalent, and participate in on-call support rotations as required to ensure system health and rapid issue response.