Role & responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Automation Engineering/QA Automation team, providing technical direction, mentoring, and performance management.
- Define and implement automation strategy, framework architecture, coding standards, and best practices.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for web, API, mobile, and backend applications.
- Drive automation across the SDLC, including functional, regression, integration, API, performance, and end-to-end testing.
- Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, DevOps, and QA teams to improve product quality and release velocity.
- Review automation code, test architecture, technical designs, and ensure adherence to engineering standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, reduce manual testing, and optimize automation execution time.
- Establish KPIs and metrics for automation effectiveness, test coverage, defect leakage, execution time, and release quality.




- Manage automation projects, timelines, priorities, risks, and resource allocation.
- Drive adoption of modern automation technologies, tools, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted testing practices.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide solutions for automation and test infrastructure challenges.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and career development of automation engineers.
- Communicate project status, quality metrics, risks, and technical issues to senior management and stakeholders.

Preferred candidate profile
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 5 to 10 years of experience in software testing, test automation, quality engineering, or automation engineering, with relevant leadership experience.
- Solid hands-on experience with Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

📌 Automation Engineering Manager (India)
🏢 Good Co India
📍 India