QA Automation Lead

QA Automation Lead

Orlando FL

3+ months contract to Hire

Pay range: $50 - $52/hr

Part-time – 24-28 hours per week

Our Fortune 500 client (One of the world's largest Consulting companies) in Orlando FL is looking for hardworking, motivated talent to join their innovative team.

Are you a QA Automation Lead with a passion for collaborating with multiple teams and an interest in working onsite?

We are seeking a high-impact Automation Test Lead to drive end-to-end test automation strategy, delivery, and innovation for complex enterprise applications. This is a client-facing, onshore leadership role in Orlando, requiring a hands-on technical leader who can own automation outcomes, influence stakeholders, and continuously improve quality engineering practices. The ideal candidate is a thought leader who challenges the status quo, establishes modern automation standards, and introduces AI-enabled automation to increase productivity and enhance deliverable quality.

• 1) Automation Strategy & Thought Leadership
  • Own and drive the automation vision, roadmap, and delivery strategy across UI and API layers, aligned to business goals and release timelines
  • Act as a thought leader: identify bottlenecks, propose new ways of working, and introduce innovative quality engineering practices to improve speed, stability, and coverage
  • Define and enforce automation standards (framework design, coding guidelines, reusable components, reporting, and governance).
• 2) Automation Engineering (UFT + Playwright)
  • Lead development and maintenance of robust UFT automation suites for functional/regression coverage, including stability improvements, execution reliability, and maintainability.
  • Design and implement modern Playwright automation (web) with scalable architecture patterns to improve execution speed and reliability.
  • Ensure automation is designed for reusability, traceability, and business-critical coverage, including strong failure triage and quick turnaround on stabilization.
• 3) API Automation (Postman Scripting)
  • Own API test strategy and implementation using Postman (including scripting/collections, automation enablement, and integration into pipelines).
  • Establish API quality gates (contract checks, response validation, negative testing, and regression packs) and integrate results into dashboards and stakeholder reporting.
• 4) AI / GenAI Enablement (Productivity + Quality)
  • Introduce AI-assisted automation to reduce manual effort, accelerate scripting, and improve maintainability-e.g., Git Hub Copilot-assisted scripting and AI-enabled approaches for test generation/maintenance
  • Drive adoption of AI-enabled tool chains (e.g., Playwright + MCP-style integrations where applicable) to modernize automation and increase delivery throughput.
  • Build a measurable innovation backlog and report outcomes (e.g., execution speed, maintenance reduction, coverage uplift).
• 5) CI/CD Integration & Quality Gates
  • Integrate automation suites into CI/CD using tools such as Azure Dev Ops/Jenkins, ensuring repeatable runs, stable pipelines, and actionable reporting.
  • Define automation entry/exit criteria, enforce quality gates, and ensure release readiness signals are clear for leadership decisions
• 6) Client Leadership & Onsite-Offshore Delivery
  • Serve as the onshore automation lead interfacing with client stakeholders; communicate strategy, risks, progress, and outcomes clearly and confidently.
  • Lead in a hybrid onshore-offshore model: plan work, delegate effectively, remove blockers, and ensure delivery commitments are met with high quality.
  • Provide governance: weekly status, risk/dependency management, escalations, and continuous improvements across the automation function.

• 9+ years in QA/Test Automation with 3+ years in a lead role driving automation delivery and stakeholder communication
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
  • UFT (Unified Functional Testing) and automation framework practices
  • Postman for API testing and scripting/automation enablement
  • Playwright (preferred for modern web automation) with structured framework design
  • Experience integrating automation into CI/CD and version control (e.g., Azure…