Lead QA Automation Engineer

About the role

As a Lead QA Automation Engineer, you will make an impact by defining and implementing the test automation strategy for enterprise loan servicing applications, beginning with mission-critical platforms. You will be a valued member of the Quality Engineering team and work collaboratively with product teams, software development leads, architects, business partners, and DevOps teams to improve software quality and accelerate delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an enterprise test automation strategy aligned with software development, quality engineering, and business objectives.
• Design scalable automation frameworks and test suites for regression, smoke, sanity, API, mobile, and performance testing while ensuring test coverage, traceability, and reusability.
• Establish automation success metrics, measure automation effectiveness and return on investment, and communicate progress and results to leadership.
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools while defining requirements for test data, test environments, execution, defect tracking, and reporting.
• Partner with product, development, architecture, and business teams to prioritize automation, support in-sprint testing, estimate delivery efforts, and drive continuous process improvements throughout the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 6+ years of experience leading manual and automated testing programs for large, complex enterprise applications, including at least four years of hands-on test automation experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, implementing, and executing automated test scripts using Selenium-based frameworks and at least one programming language, such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or C#.
• Experience developing test automation strategies and frameworks covering functional, regression, smoke, sanity, API, and performance testing, with knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development or Test-Driven Development practices.
• Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD and engineering tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Jira, Bamboo, Git, GitHub, or similar platforms.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman and performance or load-testing tools such as JMeter.
• Strong knowledge of software development, lifecycle practices, test planning, defect management, test reporting, effort estimation, and test automation delivery.

Skills

• Experience with mobile test automation using Appium.
• Experience with scriptless, robotic, or commercial automation platforms, particularly Qualitia.
• Experience with Bash, PowerShell, Ruby, or other scripting and programming languages.
• Experience supporting mortgage servicing, loan servicing, banking, or other financial services applications.
• Experience introducing in-sprint automation and measuring automation effectiveness or return on investment.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Schedule

Hybrid position requiring three days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Coppell, Texas.