Lead QA Automation Engineer

Job Title: Lead QA Automation Engineer
Location: Tampa FL or Nashville TN
Will be required to be in office 2-3 days a week.
Contract: 6+ Months

- Acting as the lead, help create testing and automation solutions for the platform interfacing between POD and other stakeholders.
- 6+ years hands-on experience defining the testing and automation strategy for large scale programs and ensuring requirements traceability throughout the system development lifecycle. Experience should include leading the testing efforts, including experience with all phases of testing: system integration, user acceptance, and performance testing.
- 6+ experience driving the quality assurance processes.
- Prior experience leading teams – onshore, offshore and nearshore.
- Experience working in a testing role in different environments including the following: client server, service-oriented architecture, web-based, mainframe-based and three-tier architectures.
- Prior experience with open source automation tools, source control systems, scripting languages, automated reporting, API testing.
- Experience applying prompt engineering techniques to generate, refine, or debug automated test scripts and test data.
A strong understanding of the various approaches used in testing techniques – white-box, black-box, load testing, coverage testing and regression testing.
- Exposure to AI-assisted defect triage or root-cause analysis tools that reduce manual investigation time.
- Understanding of responsible AI/testing governance principles (bias detection, explainability, model validation) as applied to QE.
Experience contributing to or influencing AI-adoption roadmaps within a testing/QE organization.