Test Automation Engineer Lead

Symetra

12d • Remote

About The Position

The Test Automation Engineer Lead is a hands‑on technical leader responsible for
guiding a small team of 2–3 automation engineers while driving the development
of scalable, high‑quality test automation frameworks. This role works with
minimal oversight and collaborates closely with business and technical partners
to ensure reliable, high‑performing system delivery and to advance automation
maturity across the organization.

Requirements

• High School Diploma is required, plus a BA/BS in related field or equivalent experience preferred
• 8+ years of hands‑on automated testing experience, including ownership or architecture of automation solutions.
• Strong track record designing and governing enterprise‑grade automation frameworks with scalable test strategies and solid coding standards.
• Proven leadership supporting large enterprise applications and partnering across engineering, product, DevOps, and architecture teams.
• Expert proficiency across unit, API, integration, end‑to‑end, regression, performance, and reliability testing.
• Advanced experience with Pytest, Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright, including framework optimization and extension.
• Deep API testing expertise with tools like Postman and the ability to mentor others in API automation.
• Exceptional debugging, system design, and root‑cause analysis skills for complex distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including pipelines, environments, and test execution efficiency.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud‑based architectures in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Extensive experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, including metrics and governance.
• A proactive, ownership‑driven leader committed to quality, automation strategy, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communicator able to influence stakeholders and mentor engineers at all levels.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing modern cloud and serverless solutions (AWS), with strong CI/CD expertise including Azure DevOps pipelines and GitHub Actions, and contributing to new solution architecture and design, preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of automation engineers in designing, developing, and maintaining automated test strategies, scripts, and frameworks across functional, regression, API, UI, and integration testing; recommend test environments, frameworks, and tool stacks.
• Mentor and coach automation engineers, analysts, and interns; serve as the automation subject‑matter expert across teams.
• Drive automation strategy, including solution planning, framework design, CI/CD integration, and tooling decisions for key initiatives.
• Champion and enforce automated testing best practices across teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex automation defects and framework issues; lead root‑cause analysis to prevent recurring failures.
• Own success metrics and end‑to‑end accountability for automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, including communicating automation health and risk to leadership.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance automation efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with business and technical SMEs, development teams, QA resources, and external vendors; communicate regularly with senior IT and cross‑functional stakeholders.

Benefits

• Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
• Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
• Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
• Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED