
Test Automation Lead
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead and Manage Automation Initiatives: Oversee the design, development, and implementation of automation solutions to streamline IT operations, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Team Leadership and Collaboration: Mentor and guide a team of automation engineers, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities and resolve technical challenges.
- Continuous Improvement and Support: Drive continuous improvement by proactively monitoring systems, addressing incidents, and optimizing existing automation frameworks to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Develop a deep technical understanding of automation solutions and Industry best practices. Learn the spectrum of automation capabilities and industry leading technical platforms to implement change in the automation ecosystem to stay current and deliver automation value at speed and scale to our business partners.
- Align people, tools, and processes to enable rapid automation solution delivery, and identify opportunities for automation reuse and self-service across the enterprise.
- Continuously evaluate automation tools/technologies. Understand the current automation technology landscape and the breadth of functionality available. After leading the automation technology evaluation process and selection, you will lead the implementation of bringing the technology into the environment, including the strategy for reusable templates and APIs for automation consumption.
- Lead the automation platform architecture operations, ensuring that all automation technologies are stable, secure, performant, compliant, resilient, and reliable for usage at scale.
- Lead the development of an integration strategy, including use of connectors and APIs to accelerate delivery and to be consumed by both the business and the internal team.
- Develop and maintain an improved automation metrics and KPI strategy, including definitions, measurements, automated notifications, and dashboards/visualizations tracking the teams internal service delivery as well as business specific KPIs.
- Collaborate with the delivery team to anticipate demand and incorporate new capabilities and technologies into the enterprise automation portfolio.
- Collaborate across delivery teams to ensure seamless integration of automation solutions and reliability, anticipate demand, and introduce new capabilities into the automation portfolio.
- Experience as a technical leader, influencing strategic direction and driving implementation of multiple technical projects, systems, and applications.
- Demonstrated agility to rapidly understand new technologies and the infrastructure/architectures to support them, deep understanding of hybrid cloud and cloud native architectures, integration strategies, and security to assess value, and to capture core use cases.
- Proven relationship building skills and ability to lead, influence and support a diverse technical team through operational improvement and change.
- Ability to work collaboratively across and within diverse teams and organizational levels.
- Successful record of high-quality, technical application project delivery with demonstrated quantified business value, tracking and lessons learned.
- Ability to create strategic technology-related business cases to enable efficiency gains, growth, scale and change for complex technical delivery services.
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
- A high level of intellectual and technical curiosity, open to continuous improvement and ability to drive innovation within the team.
- Experience using project delivery frameworks and methodologies such as Agile Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. and demonstrated experience in industry best practices and automation tools.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field plus a minimum of 6 years of experience in application solution delivery and leading others in technical projects OR High School Diploma/GED plus a minimum of 8 years of experience in application solution delivery and leading others in technical projects
- A minimum of 4 years demonstrating technical expertise in solution architecture, development, and delivery. Automation related experience is a plus.
- A minimum of 5 years of programming experience, ideally in one of the following languages (Python, JavaScript Frameworks -NodeJS, Angular, React, etc.)
- Deep expertise in test automation using AI tools and frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Mabl, etc.)
- Deep Expertise in end-to-end DevOps (Jira, GitHub, GitHub Action, CI/CD)