SQA Automation Team Lead

Join us at Nayax, a global fintech leader (NASDAQ; TASE: NYAX) revolutionizing the world of cashless payments, consumer engagement, and business management solutions. With more than 1,200 employees across 12 offices worldwide. At Nayax, you'll be part of a diverse and innovative community where your work makes a real impact and helps shape the future of payments.

Retail Pro International (RPI) is a global leader in retail management software, empowering retailers in over 80 countries with flexible, scalable, and powerful solutions. Our mission is to enable retailers to thrive in a rapidly evolving landscape by delivering innovative technology, deep industry expertise, and a commitment to long-term partnerships. RPI was acquired by Nayax in 2023 and has been merged into the company's product portfolio.

We are currently looking for a SQA Automation Team Lead to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our company.

We're looking for a hands-on automation leader to take our retail software platforms from manual testing to a fast, reliable, AI-accelerated automation practice. This person will do three things exceptionally well:

• Convert
  our existing manual test cases into robust, maintainable automation across web and API.
• Lead
  the automation practice --- setting standards, mentoring the QA team, and serving as the technical authority (without direct people-management responsibility).
• Improve
  the testing process continuously, using AI tools to reduce manual effort, expand coverage, and accelerate releases.

If you've personally migrated a manual test suite into automation, raised the bar for a QA team, and used AI to make testing genuinely faster --- this role is built for you.

This position follows a hybrid work schedule and is based at our Retail Pro office in Folsom, California.

Convert manual test cases into automation (the core of the job)

• Take documented manual test cases, business requirements, and technical specs and turn them into reliable, maintainable automated coverage.
• Design, build, and maintain the automated test framework for web and API testing.
• Develop and maintain functional, regression, and API test suites.
• Validate test data through database queries and backend verification.
• Troubleshoot flaky tests and continuously improve reliability and execution performance.

Lead the automation practice

• Set automation standards and best practices, and drive consistency across the QA team.
• Mentor automation engineers and QA analysts; be the go-to technical expert for automation.
• Deliver documentation and training on tools, framework usage, and test design.
• Participate in sprint planning, development meetings, and defect triage.

Improve the process with AI

• Apply AI tools to accelerate and strengthen the QA process --- e.g., AI-assisted test-case authoring, automated script generation, self-healing tests, and coverage analysis.
• Identify bottlenecks in the current testing workflow and drive measurable improvements in speed, coverage, and quality.
• Champion an AI-first mindset within the SQA team and share what works.

Integrate and collaborate

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and align automation with build and release workflows.
• Support cross-browser testing, parallel execution, and environment configuration.
• Partner with Development, Product, and Support to investigate defects and validate fixes.
• Communicate automation status, risks, and progress to SQA management.
• Assist with manual testing when needed to support release timelines.

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** These are the non-negotiables. We'll be looking for concrete, "I did this" examples --- not theory.

• Converting manual test cases into automation at scale --- a demonstrated track record of building or migrating a real automated suite from manual cases.
• Technical leadership
  --- proven experience mentoring engineers, setting standards, and being the automation authority on a team.
• Hands-on use of AI tools to improve QA
  --- real, demonstrable examples of using AI to cut manual effort, expand coverage, or speed up release cycles.
• Strong automation fundamentals
  --- solid framework design across web and API, plus CI/CD integration.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 5 years of automated testing experience in a professional software environment.
• 3 years building or significantly enhancing automation frameworks.
• 3 years of RESTful API test automation.
• Demonstrated ability to translate requirements and manual test cases into reliable automated scripts.

• ** Automation stack:
  ** JavaScript, Microsoft Playwright, Postman (API automation)
• ** Web:
  ** Angular testing strategies, cross-browser automation
• ** CI/CD & Dev Ops:
  ** Jenkins, Git-based source control, pipeline-driven test execution
• ** Databases:
  ** Oracle and/or MySQL for test-data validation
• ** Platforms:
  ** Windows OS / Windows Server; mobile testing across…