Quality Assurance Automation Manager

7-Eleven•Irving, TX

12d

About The Position

7-Eleven is seeking an experienced QA Automation Manager to lead and scale a high-performing QA automation team responsible for ensuring the quality and reliability of critical Store Technology Systems. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and a proactive quality mindset to drive automation strategy, improve testing efficiency, end-end testing coordination and ensure seamless delivery in a fast-paced agile environment. The ideal candidate will mentor automation engineers, lead End-End Testing, define testing strategies, QA lab maintenance and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver high-quality software while continuously improving QA processes.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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.

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 Lav environment
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.
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.
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.
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.