Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Development Engineer – L5 to lead our test automation strategy and engineering initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years of software testing and automation experience, with solid expertise in building scalable automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript.
This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can define automation standards, improve quality engineering practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate effectively with development, product, DevOps, and business teams.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable test automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript.

• Define the overall automation strategy, architecture, coding standards, and implementation roadmap.

• Provide technical leadership for UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, and end-to-end automation.

• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, execution speed, reliability, and maintainability.

• Integrate automated test suites into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.





• Review automation code and ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices.

• Diagnose and resolve flaky tests, framework limitations, execution failures, and environment-related issues.

• Establish test-quality metrics, dashboards, reporting mechanisms, and release-readiness criteria.

• Collaborate with developers, product owners, architects, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders.

• Drive shift-left testing and early defect detection across the software development lifecycle.

• Promote effective use of AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, to improve engineering productivity and code quality.

• Evaluate emerging automation technologies and conduct proof-of-concept implementations where appropriate.

• Mentor automation engineers and support their technical and professional development.

• Communicate automation progress, quality risks, dependen

📌 Staff Software Development Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Inovalon
📍 Hyderabad