Team Lead, QA Automation

Job Details

Job Code L2326IT

Department Name IT Development

Reports To Senior Manager, Quality Assurance

FLSA Status Exempt

Union Code N/A

Management Yes

Job Description Title QA Automation Team Lead

Building Services 32BJ Benefit Funds (“the Funds”) is the umbrella organization responsible for administering Health, Pension, Retirement Savings, Training, and Legal Services benefits to over 185,000 SEIU 32BJ members. Our mission is to make significant contributions to the lives of our members by providing high quality benefits and services. Through our commitment, we embody five core values:
Flexibility, Initiative, Respect, Sustainability, and Teamwork (FIRST). By following our core values, employees are open to different and new ways of doing things, take active steps to improve the organization, create an environment of trust and respect, approach their work with the intent of a positive outcome, and work collaboratively with colleagues.

The Funds oversees and manages $11 billion of dollars in assets, which are made up of many, varied and complex funds. The dollars come from a number of sources, including the property owners who pay into the funds on behalf of their employees, and as such, requires those who oversee and manage the money to be highly skilled financial management people.

32BJ Benefit Funds will continue to drive innovation, equity, and technology insights to further help the lives of our hard-working members and their families. We use cutting edge technology such as: M365, Dynamics 365 CRM, Dynamics 365 F&O, Azure, AWS, SQL, Snowflake, Qlik View, and more.

Please take a moment to watch our video to learn more about our culture and contributions to our members:

The Team Lead, QA Automation is responsible for leading the quality assurance automation function for the 32BJ Member Portal’s web and mobile platforms, with potential expansion to other enterprise applications. This hands‑on technical leadership role defines QA strategy, automation architecture, test standards, and release-quality practices while ensuring that functional, regression, integration, API, mobile, and cross-browser testing are planned and executed effectively.

The Team Lead, QA Automation will design and maintain scalable automation frameworks, script and review automated tests using tools such as Selenium and Playwright, guide the modernization and conversion of Selenium test suites into Playwright‑based automated tests, and leverage AI‑assisted testing tools to generate, refine, and maintain automated test cases from user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements. The role also includes building, mentoring, and leading an internal QA automation team;

partnering with developers, business analysts, product owners, project managers, vendors, and Dev Ops; and establishing metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement practices that support high‑quality, reliable releases.

• QA Leadership & Test Strategy
  • Lead QA strategy, test planning, test execution, and traceability for test coverage
  • Create and drive processes for defect triage, release readiness, and production validation
  • Provide regular QA reporting and stakeholder communication
• Automation Strategy & Ownership
  • Define web and mobile automation strategy
  • Build scalable frameworks, reusable components, and CI/CD integration
  • Assess existing automation assets and establish a roadmap for automation coverage, framework modernization, and long‑term maintainability
  • Lead the migration strategy for converting existing Selenium automated test cases into Playwright automated test cases, including framework mapping, locator strategy, test refactoring, parallel execution, reporting, and validation of…