Responsibilities
Lead automation strategy, standards, and governance across all QE initiatives.
Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, reusable UI, API, and DB automation frameworks.
Identify automation scope, assess feasibility, and prioritize coverage aligned to risk. Integrate continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps/ALM.
Establish metrics, dashboards, and benchmark targets; track results and improve.
Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and uplift practices across agile squads. Collaborate with product, developers, and SRE to embed shift left quality. Optimize test data, environments, and stability to ensure reliable execution. Troubleshoot failures, perform root cause analysis, and drive defect resolution. Evaluate tools, manage POCS, and champion best practices within the CoE. Ensure compliance with processes, audits, and evidence for release of readiness. Champion knowledge sharing through playbooks, templates, communities, and training sessions. Report automation of ROI and estimates to leadership.
Required Skills:
Communication and stakeholder management: benchmark 4/5; must have.
Testing concepts (STLC, UI, API, DB): benchmark 4/5; must have.
Automation testing concepts, scope identification, assessment: benchmark 4/5; must-have.
Selenium/Katalon hands-on benchmark 4/5; must-have-.
Java or C# programming with clean code and OOP: benchmark 4/5; must have.
Automation framework creation/maintenance (modular, data driven, BDD): benchmark 4/5; must have.
Azure DevOps/ALM, pipelines, test management: benchmark 4/5; must have.
Agile and CI/CD practices, branching, and releases: benchmark 4/5; must have.
API test automation with REST/JSON, Postman/Rest Assured, contract testing: benchmark 4/5; must have.
DB testing, SQL scripting, validation of data integrity: benchmark 4/5; must have.
Defect tracking, reporting, and RCA using industry tools: benchmark 3/5; good to have.
Kind regards,
Venu Gopal
Flexon Technologies Inc.
venu@flexontechnologies.com
