Test Automation Leader

Summary

As part of the GridOS Evergreen offering, this role is responsible for designing Testing Strategy - including manual, automated and AI agent based testing and implementation for highly complex modules, critical components and whole application or product releases ; envisioning, designing and integrating quality within SDLC; driving the Software Quality Engineering efforts across unit, module, system and user acceptance testing.

• Have a proven track record of successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation
• Provide expertise in Design, Architecture, Development and Shipping from Quality Engineering perspective Lead impact assessment of decisions related to Quality Engineering
• plan and end to end strategy for releases Provide expertise, oversight, mentor team members and lead quality initiatives in large development efforts
• Demonstrate deep understanding of competitive landscape, latest trends and technologies in Quality Engineering
• Demonstrate the ability of benchmarking against competition
• Provides subject matter expertise in quality engineering processes and methodologies with ability to adapt and improvise in various situations
• Navigate through ambiguity, prioritizes conflicting asks and shows ability to adapt to changing project situations
• Demonstrate expert level skills in collaborating with different stakeholders, Influencing decisions and an ability to take strategic view
• Lead Quality Engineering efforts across the product version(s)
• Provide expertise in continuous integration process and test automation while mentoring and training team members in the process

Education Qualification

• Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Science or STEMMajors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with significant experience.
• For roles in USA:Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Science or STEMMajors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum years of experience 13+ years.

• Technical Expertise: Has extensive experience in test automation across API, UI Testing, and Performance testing.
• Exposure to Agentic UI/ User testing will be an added advantage.Expert in developing and executing maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.
• Hands on expereince with Katalon, Playwright Eggplant.
• Skilled in integrating project testing with continuous-integration process.
• Has experience with issue-tracking and agile project management systems
• Has experience working in Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
• Has experience working with virtual machines (VMs) as part of a test/integration infrastructure

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the ability of benchmarking against competition.
• Expert level skills in building value proposition with total customer focus.
• Demonstrates deep understanding of competitive landscape, latest trends and technologies in Quality Engineering. Leadership:
• Navigates through ambiguity, prioritizes conflicting asks and shows ability to adapt to changing project situations
• Able to delegate tasks effectively
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Pre-empts downstream consequences and effectively tailors strategy to support a positive outcome
• Uses experts or other third parties to influence
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization
• Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose
• Learns from failure
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal
• Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions. Utilizes critical thinking, analytical abilities and best practices.
• Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information. Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly.
• Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
• Able to communicate what is the reasoning of decisions and downstream implications.
• Reflects on success and failures to improve performance and future decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.