QA automations engineer lead

Senior QA Automation Leader

At Codelitt, we partner with ambitious companies to build digital products that solve real business problems. Our teams care deeply about product quality, strong engineering, and working closely with stakeholders to ship meaningful outcomes.

This is a remote position where you can work from anywhere in LATAM.
About the Role

We're looking for a Senior QA Automation Leader to join our team on a complex enterprise platform engagement with one of our partners. This role is focused on defining, standardizing, and driving the automation strategy for what it means for an environment to be QA-certified across a large distributed platform.

The customer's platform is made up of dozens of services owned by many engineering teams. Integration-style and acceptance tests already exist in parts of the system, but the current process is fragmented, inconsistent, and heavily dependent on manual coordination. The goal is to move toward a clear, repeatable certification process where teams can understand what must pass, what evidence is required, and how automated test execution should validate a newly built environment.

This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who can operate at the intersection of QA architecture, test automation, platform engineering, engineering coordination, and delivery reliability. Success here depends on being able to bring structure to ambiguity, define a practical testing standard, understand existing automation across multiple services, and help teams converge around a shared certification bar.
Who You Are

• A senior QA automation leader, test architect, or quality engineering leader with experience defining testing standards for complex distributed systems.
• Experienced working with large platforms made up of many services, teams, dependencies, and release paths.
• Comfortable understanding existing test automation, identifying gaps, and defining what "good enough to certify" means in a practical delivery environment.
• Strong with automated acceptance testing, integration testing, service-level validation, test orchestration, and CI/CD-based test execution.
• Able to work across Java, Python, Jenkins, custom test harnesses, APIs, services, and existing QA frameworks, even when the current state is inconsistent or under-documented.
• Experienced turning fragmented QA practices into clear standards, templates, evidence requirements, and repeatable certification workflows.
• Comfortable partnering with engineering teams, QA teams, infrastructure teams, and leadership to define requirements and drive adoption.
• Pragmatic about automation: you know when to standardize, when to adapt to legacy constraints, and when to focus on the highest-risk gaps first.
• Able to lead without needing everything to be perfectly defined upfront.
• A strong communicator who can explain quality gates, testing gaps, risks, tradeoffs, and next steps to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What You'll Do
QA Certification Standard

• Define the written standard for what it means for an environment to be QA-certified.
• Create a clear pass/fail bar for environment certification across services, integrations, and platform-level workflows.
• Define what integration coverage means across a distributed service architecture.
• Create templates for required evidence, test results, service readiness, coverage expectations, and sign-off.
• Clarify terminology, ownership, and expectations so engineering, QA, and leadership teams are aligned.

Test Automation Strategy

• Assess the current automated acceptance and integration testing landscape across dozens of services.
• Identify which services already have sufficient automated coverage and which services have gaps.
• Understand existing test harnesses, Jenkins orchestration, service-level acceptance tests, and team-specific testing approaches.
• Define how automated tests should be triggered, monitored, reported, and used as certification evidence.
• Help design a path toward running acceptance and integration tests in a more centralized, repeatable, and reliable way.
• Work with engineering teams to determine how missing or legacy test automation should be addressed.

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