Automation Lead

at ESO (View all jobs)
Remote US, Austin, Texas, United States

About This Role: 

We are seeking an experienced Automation Lead to oversee automation quality across all product lines.  This role ensures robust, reliable, and scalable automation frameworks and drives collaboration between U.S. based teams and our IDC (India Development Center) automation engineers.  The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in Cypress, Selenium, and Playwright.  Well-versed with JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, API testing (Postman, Bruno) with leadership, coordination, and problem-solving skills. 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Lead and maintain automation efforts across multiple product lines to ensure consistency, quality, and reliability of automation test suites. 
  • Collaborate closely with the IDC automation team in India to ensure seamless workflows, shared goals, and timely deliverables. 
  • Monitor automation results, identify regressions early, and coordinate engineering and QA teams to resolve issues promptly.
  • Participate in production incident triage from QA standpoint- jump on calls as needed, lead automation-related root cause analysis, and ensure follow up actions are taken. 
  • Review, design, and optimize automation frameworks using C# and Playwright, ensuring they are maintainable, scalable and efficient. 
  • Drive test data management and environment readiness to support automated testing. 
  • Track automation of health metrics and proactively identify process improvements to reduce failures and execution time. 
  • Mentor and guide offshore automation engineers, providing technical oversight and alignment with overall QA strategy. 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering or related field. 
  • 8+ years of experience in QA Automation, with at least 2 years in a leadership or coordination role. 
  • Strong hands-on experience with C# and Playwright (required)
  • Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks for web and API testing.
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud-based test execution environments. 
  • Excellent coordination and communication skills to work effectively across time zones and teams. 
  • Experience in triaging production issues and driving cross-functional collaboration.
  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies and quality engineering best practices. 

Preferred Skills: 

  • Exposure to other automation tools or frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, RestSharp, SpecFlow)
  • Familiarity with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions for build and test automation.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
  • Experience working in distributed global teams. 
  • Ownership mindset, Excellent communication skills. 
  • Proactively looking to optimize automation and testing processes. 

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