Senior QA Automation Lead Engineer

Senior QA Automation Lead Engineer

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Englewood Cliff, NJ

Position Summary:

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.