Quality Assurance Automation Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA Automation Engineers.
• Promote a strong QA mindset: "Build together, break together, and continuously improve."
• Foster collaboration between QA, development, product, and business teams.
• Drive a culture of innovation, accountability, and quality ownership.
• Maintain the QA Lab environment.

Automation Strategy & Execution

• Define and implement scalable test automation strategies and frameworks.
• Guide the team in building automation frameworks from scratch where needed.
• Ensure best practices in test automation, including maintainability, scalability, and reusability.
• Oversee test coverage across UI, API, and performance testing layers.

Quality Engineering & Testing

• Contribute to user story definition, ensuring testability and risk mitigation.
• Identify business risks and ensure they are addressed through testing strategies.
• Review and approve test plans, test cases, and test execution reports.
• Drive adoption of TDD, BDD (Gherkin) practices across teams.
• Lead the overall End-End Testing of Store Systems team and coordinate the efforts across internal and external teams, as needed.

Agile & Process Excellence

• Actively participate in SCRUM ceremonies and ensure QA integration in Agile workflows.
• Define and enforce quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.
• Continuously improve QA processes and efficiency through automation and tooling.

Technology & DevOps Integration

• Ensure integration of test automation within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar).
• Oversee usage of testing tools such as: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Karate, JMeter.
• Guide implementation of cloud-based testing solutions using: AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch).
• Align QA practices with modern web applications built using Node.js and MongoDB.

Experience Required

• 10+ years of overall QA experience with at least:
• 6+ years in QA Automation
• 4+ years in a QA leadership or managerial role
• Strong background in web application testing and development.
• Hands-on experience in building automation frameworks from scratch.
• Strong knowledge of test case design and test planning.
• Strong knowledge of TDD, BDD (Gherkin).
• Strong knowledge of risk-based testing.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in at least one programming language: JavaScript, Java, C#, or similar.
• Experience with modern web technologies and architectures.
• Hands-on experience with: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Karate, JMeter (performance testing).
• Minimum 2 years experience with: MongoDB, Node.js, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch).
• Experience with: Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools, pipeline design and implementation, integrating automation into CI/CD workflows.

Technology & DevOps Integration

• Ensure integration of test automation within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar).
• Oversee usage of testing tools such as: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Karate, JMeter.
• Guide implementation of cloud-based testing solutions using: AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch).
• Align QA practices with modern web applications built using Node.js and MongoDB.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Creative, out-of-the-box thinker—especially in solving complex quality challenges.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Collaborative team player with cross-functional alignment capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on large-scale retail or store technology systems.
• Exposure to distributed systems or microservices-based architecture.
• Familiarity with performance and security testing practices.