Automation Lead

Job Description/ Responsibilities/ Years of experience:
• Strong technical skillset with minimum 12+ yrs. experience in test automation across the Tech stack – Web/middleware/database
• Experience in UI, Web services and mobile automation
• Experience in building custom solutions across Test life cycle – Design/Develop/Test
• Perform continuous research in Market Trends, arrange mind share sessions with client on new solutions
• Provide automation thought leadership and implement new solutions and framework
• Must have 5+ yrs. programming skills in Java, experience in developing new solutions & build/enhance test automation frameworks
• Perform current state assessments & capability to provide transformation roadmap
• Mentor the team, build new solutions
• Experience in building engineering metrics and building root cause analysis reports
• Lead the team, adopt to DevOps culture, build scalable test automation suite with continuous integration/testing for applications

What are the top skills required for this role?
• Tech stack
o Strong knowledge on Java, Jscript
o Good knowledge in Python
o Strong knowledge Test automation engine – Selenium, Playwright
o Strong knowledge in API – REST Assured or other frameworks
o CI & build tools - Cucumber, Jenkins, Github, Mavens
• Experience in building new Framework & solid understanding of Angular frameworks, spring boot micro-services & Mule gateway
• Exposure to GenAI – Copilot or other LLM's
• Hands on experience on test management tools like Rally or other platform tools
• Experience in custom solutions like dashboard to report on engineering metrics, program health
• Ability to lead automation team and drive client solutions and proposals
• Multi location team handling capabilities