Test Lead - Automation

HEXAWARE•United States,

About The Position

The Senior Quality Engineering & Test Automation Lead is a hands-on technical lead and testing authority for a mission-critical program comprising more than 20 microservices and four product teams. This is a coding role, not a people-management position. The lead will unify testing practices, build automation frameworks, and drive quality across teams with varying levels of testing maturity in an Agile environment using CI/CD pipelines and rapid release cycles. The role covers test strategy and standardization, hands-on automation engineering, CI/CD pipeline quality, AI-driven testing, and reporting and metrics. The lead will assess testing gaps, establish shared frameworks and quality standards, build scalable test automation across microservices, and integrate testing into delivery pipelines. The position is located in McLean, Virginia, and requires 9–15 years of experience.

Requirements

9–15 years of experience.
Hands-on coding and automated test framework development experience.
Experience with API testing tools: Rest Assured, Karate, Postman, and Bruno.
Experience building UI test suites; Playwright is preferred.
Experience developing Java-based data-driven or keyword-driven frameworks using OOP and design patterns.
Experience writing complex SQL/NoSQL queries for backend data validation.
Experience with relational databases: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
Experience with MongoDB.
Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins and GitLab CI.
Experience with Agile delivery and CI/CD environments.

Nice To Haves

Playwright for UI test automation.
Experience evaluating or adopting AI/ML testing tools and using generative AI for test creation and exploratory testing.

Responsibilities

Assess testing gaps across teams and define a unified strategy covering functional, regression, integration, contract, end-to-end, and performance testing.
Establish shared testing frameworks, conventions, quality gates, and reporting standards.
Build a reusable, scalable test automation architecture across microservices.
Personally design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks.
Build API test suites using Rest Assured, Karate, Postman, and Bruno.
Build UI test suites using Playwright.
Develop data-driven and keyword-driven frameworks in Java using object-oriented programming and established design patterns.
Write complex SQL and NoSQL queries to validate backend data across relational and non-relational databases.
Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI.
Implement shift-left testing, automated regression gates, and parallel execution strategies.
Coordinate test environment management across teams.
Evaluate and adopt AI/ML tools for test generation, intelligent test selection, self-healing automation, and defect prediction.
Use generative AI to accelerate test creation and exploratory testing.
Build test prioritization models using historical data.