Lead Automation Engineer

Our client is looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to join the engineering team responsible for building and maintaining a payer‑agnostic web platform. You’ll work alongside full stack engineers on the same user stories, driving automation strategy and strengthening their regression test suite to support a growing, multi‑environment product.

This is a hands‑on leadership role — ideal for someone who takes initiative, identifies automation gaps, and builds scalable testing solutions without waiting for direction. You’ll help evolve their Playwright‑based test suite while deepening coverage across UI, API, and integration layers.

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated testing frameworks and test suites (primarily using Playwright).
• Partner with full stack developers on shared user stories to proactively define and automate regression coverage.
• Expand and optimize existing smoke and regression test suites, ensuring consistency across multiple environments and live production.
• Introduce and maintain API‑level testing and integration testing as the platform brings on new vendors and services.
• Mentor other automation engineers, helping them ramp up in Playwright and automation best practices.
• Collaborate with leadership and product teams — clearly communicating testing health, risk, and coverage metrics.
• Continuously evaluate emerging test tools, frameworks, and best practices to drive automation maturity.

• Proven experience as a Lead or Senior Automation Engineer — someone who can guide others and self‑direct priorities.
• 5+ years of experience in test automation, with expertise in frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, or similar.
• 1–2 years of experience (or strong working knowledge) with Playwright — or demonstrated ability to quickly ramp up on new tools.
• Solid understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM, React/Angular/Vue).
• Experience building and maintaining API and integration tests (Postman, Rest Assured, etc.).
• Ability to design clean, modular, maintainable test code.

• Experience setting up test reporting (Allure, JUnit, TestNG) or trace visualization.
• Exposure to containerized environments (Docker) or cloud‑based test execution.
• Familiarity with behavior‑driven testing (Cucumber/Gherkin).

• Self‑starter with the ability to identify needs and implement solutions independently.
• Strong communicator — comfortable interfacing with both technical peers and leadership.
• Collaborative, approachable, and easy to work with in a fast‑moving Agile team.
• Curious mindset — eager to learn new technologies and continuously improve testing processes.