Lead QA Automation Engineer

About the role

The Product Team at Unanet is seeking a Lead QA Automation Engineer to join our dynamic and growing team. This role involves providing enterprise-grade technical solutions to the quality engineering team and collaborating with individual project teams to implement, maintain, and innovate our technical testing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA efforts toward successful project delivery, including overseeing manual and automation test strategy, plans, and processes across access points and scrum teams
• Define and evolve comprehensive automation, regression, performance, and release testing strategies within our Agile SDLCA
• Arcitect, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for web applications, APIs (REST/WebHooks), and database layers
• Write and review high-quality automated test scripts and ensure seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines
• Develop and execute automated API, UI, integration, regression, and performance test suites to ensure product reliability and scalability
• Own and prioritize the QA backlog, including automation coverage, technical debt, and infrastructure testing initiatives
• Serve as the point of escalation for QA matters, managing risk, prioritizing coverage, and ensuring release readiness
• Troubleshoot complex defects by analyzing logs, database traces, and system behavior; drive root cause analysis and long-term quality improvements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, QA, and Leadership to define acceptance criteria, quality standards, and test requirements
• Mentor and develop QA Engineers through hands-on guidance of automation frameworks, tools, and testing methodologies
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and building a high-performing QA practice that scales with our organization

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering in B2B SaaS
• 3+ years of test automation experience (e.g., Katalon, Playwright, Selenium)
• Strong understanding of test methodologies, test case coverage analysis, and effective hardening and exploration strategies
• Experience with performance testing (e.g., Jmeter, NeLoad, LoadRunner)
• Experience with API testing (e.g., Postman, Python, SmartBear)
• Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities, with ability to pair analysis and efficiency in your approach and solutions
• Bachelor's in Computer Science

Qualifications

• Experience leading or mentoring Quality Engineers
• Prior experience with AI-enabled QA technologies preferred

Skills

• Test Automation
• Performance Testing
• API Testing
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Quality Engineering Best Practices
• Testability
• Maintainable Code Design

Benefits

• Discretionary Bonus Compensation
• Unanet Employee Benefits Plans and Programs

Pay

$130,300 - $140,036 per year

Schedule

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