Associate Director: QA Automation

Infotech•Gainesville, FL

12h•Remote

About The Position

Infotech® is seeking an Associate Director of QA Automation to be a hands-on technical leader of the QA Engineering team. As the Associate Director of QA Automation, you will be responsible for driving the overall strategy, architecture, development, and execution of automated testing across our Commercial applications. You will be a self starter who is excited about building out a green field QA function across a heavily used suite of projects. In addition to operating as a senior individual contributor, you will balance deep technical work, building scalable test frameworks and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, with mentoring team members, establishing coding standards, and advocating for quality early in the development lifecycle. Working closely with cross-functional engineering and product teams, you will ensure high release confidence, minimize defect leakage, and eliminate test flakiness to maintain a fast, reliable continuous deployment workflow.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in related field and 8 years relevant experience; or Master’s Degree in related field and 6 years relevant experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
8+ years of total software QA/Testing experience, with at least 4+ years in a senior or technical lead capacity focused on test automation.
Proven ability to elevate the technical skill set of team members through code reviews, paired programming, and documentation.
Ability to balance immediate delivery goals with long-term architectural stability and technical debt reduction.
Exceptional analytical skills to troubleshoot complex system behaviors, network issues, and environment discrepancies.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively translate complex technical quality risks to non-technical stakeholders.
2+ years working at a “start up” on a small, fast paced, highly effective team. (“Start up” defined as any company of 100 or fewer employees).
Advanced proficiency in at least one OOP/functional language used in automation (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or C#)
RESTful/GraphQL API testing and automation (Postman, RestAssured, Supertest)
Hands-on expertise building automation frameworks from scratch (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, or Appium)
Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines
Solid command of SQL and database validation for data quality verification

Nice To Haves

Containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience testing .NET/C# applications with MSSQL back-ends.
Experience using FitNesse (open-source acceptance testing framework) to test .NET/C# applications with MSSQL back-ends.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and maintain robust, scalable test automation frameworks (UI, API, Mobile, Performance) across web and backend systems.
Establish automation guidelines, coding standards, and best practices across the engineering organization.
Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab) to enable seamless continuous testing and reliable deployment gates.
Mentor and guide QA engineers on test automation techniques, design patterns (e.g., Page Object Model), clean code principles, and effective debugging.
Partner with Product, Design, and Software Engineers early in the development lifecycle to clarify requirements, review design specs, and plan for testability.