Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

**Role summary** We’re looking for a Lead Automation QA engineer who can own quality at scale. This role will contribute to establishing testing strategy, processes, and best practices for a large, multi\-team program. You’ll work closely with engineering and product to shift to drive quality improvement, standardize approaches, and raise the overall bar. **Key responsibilities** * Define and own the testing strategy across the program (scope, tooling, coverage, environments). * Establish QA standards, best practices, and guardrails * Set up quality metrics and reporting * Design, build, and evolve existing automation frameworks * Mentor and upskill QA engineers on test automation practices. * Execute variety of manual and automation testing tasks for new and existing features as part of QA team * Create comprehensive test plans, test cases, and automation scripts for new and existing features. Prepare testing documentation upon release. **Required experience** * 8\+ years in QA, with strong automation focus. * Proven experience building automation frameworks from scratch or scaling them across programs. * Strong coding skills (preferably Python) \- 5 years or more * Experience with Playwright (3\+ years ) * Solid experience with API (Insomnia is a plus) and integration testing. * Deep understanding of CI/CD and modern SDLC. * Experience working in large, distributed, multi\-team programs. * Advanced English, daily communication with US\-team members **Nice to have** * Experience in regulated or high\-compliance environments. * Experience influencing quality practices at org or portfolio level. * Prior role as QA Lead / Test Architect.