Lead SDET (Playwright Automation) with 10yrs exp

Hybrid in California City, CA, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 19 hours ago
Full Time
No Travel Required
Hybrid
$40 - $50/hr
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Job Details

Skills

  • Python or Java
  • AI

Summary

Lead SDET (Playwright Automation) with 10yrs exp 

About The Role
This role is about going beyond traditional QA, you'll be a hands-on leader who builds frameworks, improves testing approaches, and ensures fast, reliable releases with minimal bug leakage. You'll influence architecture, enable shift-left testing practices, and motivate the team to innovate in how we approach product quality.
We're looking for a Lead SDET who can not only drive technical quality initiatives but also set examples for the team, mentor peers, and ensure product excellence across performance, scalability, and automation.
Responsibilities
  • Lead Quality Initiatives: Set quality standards and best practices across UI, API, performance, and scalability testing
  • Framework Development: Design, build, and maintain robust test automation frameworks for UI and API testing
  • Code & Architecture Reviews: Conduct code reviews for junior engineers, guide them in understanding the impact of code changes, and enforce scalable automation patterns
  • Shift-Left Testing: Drive early quality practices by embedding testing in the design and development phase; ensure automation catches bugs as early as possible
  • Performance & Scalability: Partner with product and engineering teams to validate scalability, performance, and infrastructure-level quality
  • Micro frontend & DB Expertise: Provide technical quality insights on microfrontend architecture and databases (MongoDB, Firebase, etc.)
  • Mentorship: Inspire, mentor, and guide the QA/SDET team to continuously improve their technical skills and testing mindset
  • Innovation in Testing: Encourage new approaches beyond traditional testing methods, focusing on efficiency, faster delivery, and minimal bug leakage
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with developers, PMs, DevOps, and product stakeholders to ensure quality is owned across the product lifecycle
  • RCA: Drive RCA for all prod issues and plug the defect leakage gaps
Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience in software testing and automation, with at least 3+ years in a lead or senior role
  • Proven experience building and scaling automation frameworks for both UI and API
  • Strong coding skills in languages commonly used for test automation (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java)
  • Solid understanding of performance, scalability, and infrastructure testing
  • Hands-on experience with microfrontend architectures and databases like MongoDB and Firebase
  • Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring team members
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automation for continuous testing
  • Proven experience managing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for large-scale applications. Ability to influence product architecture and design with a quality-first mindset
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team
  • Customer-first approach: ensuring quality translates to real-world reliability and user experience
  • Experience in developing tools which helped QA org to improve the productivity
Skills: test automation,automation framework,rca,sdet,infrastructure testing
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  • Dice Id: 90773860
  • Position Id: 8969514
  • Posted 1 day ago
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