About the role

  • Senior Automation SDET Leader at Ness Digital Engineering overseeing testing automation efforts. Leading and managing a team to enhance quality assurance processes in a hybrid remote environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 10-15 Automation SDETs, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
  • Oversee the execution of the automation backlog, prioritized by QE 1.0 and delivery leadership, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
  • Ensure automation efforts focus on: regression risk, customer- and analyst-visible workflows, and trust-breaking/high-impact failure scenarios.
  • Collaborate closely with ART-aligned QE leads and development teams to integrate automation seamlessly into the SDLC.
  • Ensure automation is reliable, maintainable, and production-relevant, adhering to defined patterns and standards.
  • Contribute execution telemetry (coverage, failure patterns, flakiness) into QE reporting mechanisms, providing insights for continuous improvement.
  • Rapidly scale team effort up or down based on release and delivery demand.
  • Identify and implement improvements to automation processes, tools, and techniques.
  • Enforce adherence to established automation standards and governance policies.

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading and managing a team of automation and performance testing engineers
  • Strong hands-on experience with test automation and performance frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Jmeter, Loadrunner, Tosca) and CI/CD integration (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI)
  • Ability to automate at API, service, and workflow (UI) layers as needed
  • Experience working in high-pressure delivery environments
  • Strong collaboration skills with developers, QE leads, and other stakeholders
  • Discipline in following standards, patterns, and governance
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid remote working arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Senior Automation SDET Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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