Lead Engineer, Technology Quality Assurance Requisition Id: Business Unit: LTL Location: Pune, IN, 411014 XPO India Shared Services Lead Engineer, Technology Quality Assurance Location: Pune/Hyderabad Experience: 9+ Years Scope: Multi-Project / Multi-Team Oversight Role Overview The QA Lead - Automation is a high-impact technical leadership role within the QA Center of Excellence (QA-CoE). This position is responsible for setting the technical vision, governance, and long-term roadmap for test automation across multiple product streams. Core Responsibilities & Success Indicators 1. Technical Driver & Mentorship - Serve as the primary technical authority for the test automation organization. - Assess team technical maturity, identify skill gaps, and execute structured capability-building programs. - Coach engineers on advanced framework design, clean coding practices, debugging, and continuous execution. - Build a culture of psychological safety, ownership, and engineering excellence. 2. Automation Strategy & Governance - Formulate and execute a long-term, scalable automation roadmap aligned with QA-CoE standards. - Standardize tooling, design patterns, repositories, reporting, and execution environments. - Architect multi-layered test coverage.



- Champion shift-left practices. 3. Multi-Project Oversight & Resource Allocation - Maintain portfolio-level oversight across concurrent product automation initiatives. - Align automation goals with engineering delivery cycles and business roadmaps. - Rebalance team resources dynamically across projects. - Act as the final technical escalation point. 4. Risk-Based Quality Leadership - Identify business-critical user journeys and prioritize automation. - Evaluate and quantify technical risk exposure. - Maintain transparent communication regarding automation gaps. 5. Metrics & Data-Driven Insights - Automation Coverage % - Defect Leakage Rate - Execution Cycle Time & Build Health - Flakiness Index 6. Stakeholder Collaboration & Strategic Partnership - Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, and Architecture leadership. - Participate in architectural reviews. - Provide risk-based Go/No-Go release recommendations. 7. Innovation & Continuous Improvement - Evaluate emerging QA innovations. - Facilitate quarterly QA-CoE retrospectives. - Modernize legacy automation frameworks. Be part of something big

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