Lead Automation Engineer

LendingClub•San Francisco, CA

20h•$160,000 - $185,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Happen Bank is looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to help advance the quality, reliability, and speed of our software delivery. In this role, you’ll own test automation for critical product capabilities, evolve our automation frameworks and testing strategies, and partner across Engineering to build quality into the development lifecycle. You’ll combine hands-on automation expertise with technical leadership, helping improve team practices, mentor other QA Engineers, and scale testing capabilities that enable us to deliver high-quality products faster.

Requirements

7+ years of test automation or quality engineering experience, and a bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent combination of education and experience
You've led medium to large scale projects and mentored other QA Engineers on the team
Hands-on experience developing test automation scripts in both Java and JS (UIRunner, Playwright or similar)
Expertise in Java and JavaScript and ability to understand product code
Experience with CICD methodologies and tools like Jenkins
Experience with Web Services/API testing
Familiarity with test engineering tools such as JUnit, Selenium WebDriver (Bonus: Appium/Detox)
Knowledgeable about Databases like MySQL, and Cloud (Bonus: AWS)
Hands-on experience using tools like JIRA, Git, IDEs, Debuggers, Profilers
Experience with designing test cases and test scenarios to test software
Effectively communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner and ability to coordinate cross-team efforts
You have hands-on experience using AI tools to accelerate your work and improve output quality.
You're equally comfortable using them yourself and showing colleagues how — you see it as part of owning your domain, not just a nice-to-have
You're also thoughtful about limitations and where human judgment matters most

Nice To Haves

Appium/Detox
AWS

Responsibilities

Own and deliver test automation scripts in our services to validate and ship our core revenue-offering product features
Provide oversight for features delivered by other engineers within their scrum team through code and design reviews
Provide thought leadership in the evolution of our test automation frameworks from the ground up and collaborate with platform engineering
Evolve the testing methodologies/strategies towards a CICD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) model to ship our features faster and with highest quality
Use your seasoned modern-day engineering methodologies to help drive testing and coordinate with scrum teams and functional counterparts in overseeing bug tracking, test prioritization, test automation and release
Independently drive outcomes in scoped work using AI tools and actively showing peers new ways to apply them—acting as a multiplier, not just a user