QA Automation Lead

Position Overview

The ideal candidate will evaluate, improve, and scale our existing Playwright-based automation framework across UI, API, and data testing — with mobile automation on the future roadmap. The initial focus of this role will be assessing the current automation landscape, improving API automation reliability and coverage, expanding UI automation, and establishing clear automation health metrics.

Location

This is a hybrid role with 1 day a week in our Atlanta office.

Reports to

The Director, Quality Assurance

As the QA Automation Lead at Trella, you will:

• Automation Strategy & Leadership
• Define and own the automation roadmap — establish standards, quality gates, coverage goals, and success metrics across UI, API, and data validation.
• Partner with QA, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to align automation efforts with business priorities and release objectives.
• Provide accurate, timely reporting on automation coverage, execution health, and release readiness that can be independently validated and relied upon by leadership; communicate risks and remediation plans proactively.
• Create and maintain strategy documents, architecture diagrams, onboarding guides, and runbooks; lead knowledge transfer to reduce key-person dependency.
• Mentor QA team members contributing to automation efforts.

Hands-On Automation Engineering

• Critically evaluate the existing Playwright framework — assess architecture, coverage, test quality, and reliability — and execute a clear improvement plan.
• Contribute to, maintain, and evolve the framework; design scalable, reusable solutions that support long-term growth.
• Define and enforce coding standards, framework conventions, and automation best practices.
• Build and maintain comprehensive coverage across UI, API, and data validation — including endpoint validation, functional workflow testing, negative testing, and regression.
• CI/CD & Operations
• Own the operational health of the automation program, including execution reliability, failure triage, and remediation planning.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and release workflows; ensure suites execute consistently and provide actionable feedback.
• Monitor automation health, investigate failures, and drive improvements to execution stability and pass rates.
• Maintain dashboards and KPIs that give leadership clear, reliable visibility into automation readiness without additional validation.

Required

• 7+ years of QA Automation experience with a strong hands-on track record.
• 3+ years leading automation initiatives, frameworks, or automation teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript.
• Experience evaluating and improving existing automation frameworks.
• Experience designing and maintaining UI, API, and data automation solutions.
• Strong understanding of automation architecture, framework design, and test strategy.
• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to establish automation reporting, execution metrics, and release readiness indicators that can be relied upon by QA and Engineering leadership.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

PREFERRED

• Experience with healthcare data platforms, analytics products, or enterprise SaaS applications.
• Experience with data validation and data quality testing.
• Experience with mobile automation frameworks such as Appium — mobile automation is on our future roadmap.
• Experience working with AI-powered QA tooling.
• Experience with TestRail or similar test management platforms.
• Experience building automation programs within Agile development environments.

About Trella Health

Trella Health provides unmatched, actionable market intelligence to post-acute care and value-based care providers of all sizes. Our industry leading analytics paired with CRM and EHR integration workflows positions us as the most advanced sales enablement platform for the post-acute care market. One of only a few companies to be deemed both a Qualified Entity by CMS and an Innovator under its Virtual Research Data Center Program, Trella has elite access to billions of performance metrics and referral data to enable competitive positioning across the market. Its standardized insights, representing 90% of all lives 65+ U.S. population, help customers identify, engage, and manage critical relationships and advance their organizations with certainty. Since launching our first product in 2016, we have experienced tremendous growth and have highlighted a few key data points to get an at-a-glance view of Trella:

• Over 1,000 customers including 10 of the top 10 post-acute providers and 4 of the top 10 health systems
• Over 150 team members and growing
• Recognized as one of Modern Healthcare's "Best Places to Work" in consecutive years and were ranked in the Top 50 startups in the US by LinkedIn
• Headquartered in Atlanta, GA with remote hubs in Nashville, Philadelphia, the Philippines, and Latin America.

The Trellavator Experience

At Trella Health, you can expect to join a welcoming team that truly embodies our core values. Our collaborative culture is anchored by trust, transparency, and inclusion—and we also have a lot of fun. No matter where you work, at Trella Health you can expect an awesome team, frequent virtual gatherings, engaging events, casual attire, and more. We offer competitive salaries with a comprehensive benefits package to all employees and provide an environment that fosters work-life harmonization with Flexible Paid Time Off, along with remote-first work arrangements. As we continue to see exponential growth, our goal is to continue to put team members first and strive to offer our team members the best culture and benefits possible.