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Job Description
Job Description – Automation Lead
Job Title: Quality Engineering Lead
Location: Mexico
Experience: 7-9 Years
Role Summary
We are seeking a QA Automation Lead with strong hands-on experience in Playwright automation using TypeScript/JavaScript, testing modern web applications such as Angular-based frontends and Java-based backend services. The candidate will be responsible for leading automation strategy and execution, driving framework best practices, guiding QA team members, monitoring quality metrics, and ensuring high-quality application delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze Business Requirements Documents (BRD), User Stories, acceptance criteria, and Functional Specifications to define the overall testing approach.
- Lead the QA automation strategy, planning, estimation, and execution across releases and sprints.
- Design, develop, and review automated test scripts using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript for web applications.
- Own and govern the Playwright automation framework, ensuring scalability, maintainability, reusability, and coding best practices.
- Guide the team in implementing Page Object Model (POM), reusable utilities, fixtures, test data management, and common automation components.
- Drive automation of functional, integration, regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing.
- Lead UI, API, and backend validation to ensure end-to-end application functionality and data integrity.
- Define and maintain cross-browser testing across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit using Playwright.
- Drive integration of automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Review automation code and ensure adherence to coding standards, framework guidelines, and automation best practices.
- Analyze automation execution results, identify recurring failures, troubleshoot flaky tests, and drive improvements in automation stability.
- Oversee defect identification, tracking, prioritization, retesting, and closure using Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar tools.
- Guide the team in using SQL queries for backend validation and application workflow verification.
- Participate in and represent QA during requirement reviews, sprint planning, release planning, retrospectives, and defect triage meetings.
- Mentor QA engineers and automation analysts, providing technical guidance and reviewing automation deliverables.
- Collaborate closely with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Architects, DevOps teams, and Project Managers.
- Provide test execution status, automation coverage, defect metrics, quality risks, and release-readiness updates to stakeholders.
- Identify automation gaps, technical risks, and quality issues early and drive appropriate mitigation plans.
- Continuously improve automation coverage, execution time, framework maintainability, test reliability, and overall QA efficiency.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in Playwright automation testing.
- Strong programming knowledge in TypeScript or JavaScript.
- Experience in leading automation testing initiatives and QA teams.
- Strong experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable UI automation frameworks.
- Strong understanding of Playwright locators, fixtures, assertions, browser contexts, hooks, configuration, tracing, and debugging.
- Experience implementing Page Object Model (POM) and reusable automation architecture.
- Experience with functional, regression, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience with API testing and automation, preferably using Playwright API capabilities or Postman.
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, DOM, XPath, and browser developer tools for automation troubleshooting.
- Experience with Git/GitHub, pull requests, branching strategies, and code reviews.
- Strong experience in integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines, preferably Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
- Working knowledge of SQL for backend and data validation.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, defect management, and release management processes.
- Ability to perform test estimation, resource planning, risk analysis, and quality reporting.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, debugging, analytical, and communication skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience testing Angular, React, or other modern web applications.
- Advanced knowledge of parallel execution, cross-browser testing, retry mechanisms, tracing, screenshots, and video capture in Playwright.
- Experience with reporting tools such as Allure, HTML Reporter, or similar automation reporting solutions.
- Experience with Docker or containerized automation execution.
- Exposure to performance, accessibility, security, or visual regression testing.
- Experience with BDD frameworks and reusable automation architecture.
- Knowledge of cloud-based testing platforms such as BrowserStack or Sauce Labs.
- Experience defining and tracking automation coverage, defect leakage, test effectiveness, and quality metrics.
- Experience supporting UAT, production validation, and release-readiness activities.
- Experience working with distributed or geographically diverse QA teams.
- Ability to communicate in Spanish is preferred for Mexico client engagements.
Key Deliverables
- QA Test Strategy and Automation Test Plan
- Playwright Automation Framework and Framework Standards
- Automation Roadmap and Coverage Plan
- Automated UI and API Test Suites
- Functional and Regression Test Suites
- CI/CD Automation Integration
- Automation Code Reviews and Quality Standards
- Test Execution and Automation Reports
- Defect Reports and Traceability Matrix
- Automation Coverage and Quality Metrics
- Release Readiness and Risk Assessment
- UAT/Production Validation Support
- Test Closure Report
EEO/About Us
About Us
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
EEO
Infosys provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.