Automation Testing Lead

Cayuse Holdings • Sacramento, CA

2d • $165,000 - $195,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Automation Testing Lead will design, lead, and optimize automation testing frameworks for advanced enterprise applications. The role drives the organization’s automation strategy, governance, and roadmap while ensuring high regression coverage, stability, and reliability of automation solutions. The position aligns with Cayuse’s values of Innovation, Excellence, Collaboration, Adaptability, and Integrity by developing technical solutions that meet customer needs, promoting teamwork, and prioritizing quality.

This role leads automation initiatives and serves as the subject matter expert for automation methodologies, tools, and best practices. It involves building and maintaining extensible frameworks, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, optimizing test coverage and execution time, mentoring automation engineers, and collaborating with teams and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end automation solutions.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in automation testing, software engineering, or IT systems development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 4 years leading automation testing initiatives, including hands-on strategy definition and execution.
• At least 4 years designing and maintaining UFT automation frameworks using VBScript.
• At least 4 years designing automation frameworks for web, API, or batch applications.
• At least 4 years implementing automation strategies, optimizing regression suites, and improving testing outcomes.
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience with Selenium or equivalent frameworks in conjunction with UFT.
• At least 4 years translating functional and business requirements into automation scenarios and frameworks.
• At least 4 years of cross-browser and cross-platform automation testing experience.
• At least 4 years of SQL proficiency for preparing test data and validating testing outcomes.
• Must be able to pass a background check; additional background checks may be required by projects or clients during employment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and clear, professional, articulate communication.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities; adaptable and quick to learn.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work independently and on a multifunctional team.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
• Proficiency in MS Office, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Nice To Haves

• A cumulative 10 or more years of experience in advanced automation testing or software development.
• At least 7 years developing automation frameworks using a combination of UFT, Selenium, or Katalon, with strategic CI/CD integrations.
• At least 5 years integrating frameworks with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI/CD.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with Katalon Studio.
• Demonstrated automation outcomes such as at least 65% regression automation coverage across enterprise solutions and test flakiness rates of 5% or less.
• At least 2 years supporting large-scale benefit systems, government services, or enterprise-scale solutions.
• Katalon Certified Professional certification.
• ISTQB Test Automation Engineer certification.
• Certified Selenium Professional, CP-SAT, or Foundation certification.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, IT, or Engineering.
• In lieu of a Master’s degree, at least 12 years of cumulative experience performing performance testing or performance engineering for large-scale enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of the organization’s automation strategy, governance standards, and long-term roadmap for enterprise applications.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for test automation methodologies, tools, and best practices, ensuring scalability and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Architect, design, and maintain extensible automation testing frameworks using UFT (VBScript), Selenium, and Katalon Studio.
• Develop reusable test automation libraries, data-driven testing assets, and modular regression suites.
• Promote automation best practices by minimizing technical debt and improving framework maintainability.
• Integrate automation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and deployment.
• Enforce automated quality gates to validate builds throughout the development lifecycle.
• Optimize regression suites to maximize test coverage while reducing execution time.
• Develop strategies to reduce test flakiness and improve automation reliability across platforms.
• Mentor and guide automation engineers in developing and rolling out advanced automation solutions.
• Promote adoption and scaling of enterprise automation standards across the company.
• Foster collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Partner with test teams, developers, product engineers, and business analysts to review requirements and design end-to-end automation solutions.
• Monitor metrics such as regression coverage and defect leakage with stakeholders to align with organizational quality goals.
• Implement and execute cross-browser and cross-platform automation testing.
• Translate functional requirements into comprehensive and efficient automation testing scenarios.
• Perform SQL-based data preparation for automated and data-driven test cases as part of end-to-end validations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Wellness program
• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuter expenses
• Short-term and long-term disability options
• Company-provided basic life and AD&D insurance
• Voluntary life and AD&D options
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with matching after one year
• Paid Time Off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior