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.
1. 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.
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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.
1. Risk-Based Quality Leadership
• Identify business-critical user journeys and prioritize automation.
- Evaluate and quantify technical risk exposure.
- Maintain transparent communication regarding automation gaps.
1. Metrics & Data-Driven Insights
• Automation Coverage %
- Defect Leakage Rate
- Execution Cycle Time & Build Health
- Flakiness Index
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, and Architecture leadership.
- Participate in architectural reviews.
- Provide risk-based Go/No-Go release recommendations.