Lead Test Automation Engineer

As a Senior Test Automation Engineer in our Technology team, you will lead automation testing across functional, system, and security domains to ensure high-quality, reliable systems. You’ll design and maintain automation test plans, mentor a small team, and drive performance testing initiatives. You’ll collaborate with developers and architects to optimize test scripts and improve overall quality. This role offers impact through shaping test strategy and delivering robust automation at scale.

• Lead automation testing across Functional, System, System Integration, End-to-End, and Security testing using Karate and related frameworks.
• Lead a small team of test automation engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Design, implement, and maintain automation scenarios; identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
• Analyze test results, issue recommendations, and coordinate script improvements with developers/architects.
• Design and run performance tests using JMeter and LoadRunner within an existing maintenance test pack.
• Contribute to performance test strategy and process improvements; support timely bug fixes.
• Collaborate with leadership and participate in recruitment activities.

• 8-10 years of hands-on test automation experience using leading automation tools
• Proficiency with Eggplant Functional, SOAP UI, Postman
• Experience writing System, API, security, and UI test scripts
• Knowledge of middleware systems/message queuing (Kafka, IBM MQ, ACE)
• Scripting skills in Python and/or JavaScript; familiarity with monitoring tools like Control-M
• Experience with SonarQube, Fortify, Twistlock, Xray for security testing
• Broad knowledge of software architectures and technologies (e.g., XBRL, HTML, .NET, Java, SOA, Unix/Linux, Oracle, SQL)
• Oracle Database architecture knowledge and ability to generate Tableau queries
• Strong analytical skills and collaborative approach
• Coaching, mentoring and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Coaching and mentoring
• Collaboration
• Analytical thinking
• Karate
• Eggplant Functional
• SOAP UI