Automation Test Lead/Manager(Playwrite/Tosca and ETL Testing)

About the role

This role owns delivery for a QA managed services organization supporting a Sustainability Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) platform. The person in this seat runs a multi-project team spanning functional testing, automation, and data validation, and is accountable for SLAs, quality metrics, staffing, and client governance across the account. The role blends people leadership, hands-on technical direction across automation and data platforms, and domain depth in energy/sustainability trading and emissions workflows.

Responsibilities

• Delivery & People Leadership: Run a QA managed services organization covering functional testing, automation, and data validation practice areas; own commitments and SLAs, staffing and capacity planning, budgets, and quality standards; run governance cadence (weekly project reviews, monthly quality/metrics reviews, quarterly business reviews); track defect leakage, test coverage, automation pass rates, and cycle time; own escalations end-to-end; forecast staffing demand and reallocate people; support presales and scope expansion.
• Automation & Test Strategy: Set technical direction for automation and continuous testing; own test strategy, planning, test case design, test data setup, defect management, configuration management; maintain and grow automated regression coverage using Playwright, Selenium, and/or TOSCA; run performance, load, and non‑functional testing (e.g., JMeter); validate REST/SOAP APIs and integrate automated checks into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions); manage source control, branching, and pull request workflows in GitHub; work with AWS‑hosted environments for test execution and data validation (S3, EC2, Lambda, etc).
• Data Validation: Snowflake & Power BI: Write and review SQL‑based validation queries against Snowflake; validate ETL/ELT pipelines feeding Snowflake; review and validate Power BI reports and dashboards for data accuracy; design and enforce value‑level and null checks across data pipelines.
• Domain: Sustainability & ETRM: Apply working knowledge of ETRM concepts (trade capture, positions, settlements, risk reporting); understand sustainability and emissions‑reporting workflows (emissions monitoring, carbon accounting, ESG data flows); translate business and regulatory reporting requirements into test scenarios.
• AI‑Assisted Testing: Set standards for AI coding/testing tools usage; own quality checks on AI‑generated test artifacts to ensure they validate actual business logic and data correctness.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in test management and automation.
• Hiring type: Video interview.
• Job type: Long term.
• Location: Houston, TX (Day One Onsite). Locals are highly recommended.

Skills

• Test Management
• Automation Testing (Playwright/Selenium/TOSCA)
• Snowflake (SQL validation, ETL/pipeline reconciliation)
• Test Strategy
• Data Validation