SDET team lead

Job Expectations:

- Lead and coordinate day-to-day activities for the Mexico-based SDET team, ensuring

alignment on deliverables and local operational needs.

- Coordinate with distributed teams across different time zones to ensure testing

strategies are synchronized and project goals are met.

- Analyze and architect technical test solutions for complex user stories, ensuring deep

coverage for integration points and distributed systems.

- Optimize and refactor existing automated regression suites to maximize reliability,

reduce execution time, and eliminate flakiness.

- Refine and extend existing automation frameworks, ensuring they remain modular,

scalable, and accessible for the wider engineering team.

- Directly expand API automation coverage, implementing robust validation for

microservices, data integrity, and cross-service communication.

- Perform deep-dive technical analysis to refactor automation code and keep it aligned

with evolving application architecture.

- Implement and maintain automated performance as integrated components of the

continuous delivery pipeline.

- Execute root cause analysis on complex defects, providing developers with detailed

technical insights and automated reproduction scripts.

- Drive technical gap analysis to identify untested code paths and proactively implement

solutions to improve overall system testability.

- Partner with Dev and Product to provide technical feedback on requirements, ensuring

acceptance criteria are precise and technically sound.

- Own the technical scaling of automation solutions, ensuring they support high-speed

execution across multiple environments.

- Provide technical expertise during sprint grooming and bug triage to ensure complex

defects are understood and prioritized correctly.

- Own and execute special technical projects, such as upgrading test infrastructure or

optimizing CI/CD workflows.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Deep understanding of modern software architecture, including microservices,

containerization (Docker), and cloud-native environments.

- High proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Java,

TypeScript, or C#) with a focus on writing clean, scalable code.

- Advanced knowledge of industry-standard test design patterns and the ability to apply

them effectively to existing UI and API frameworks.

- Extensive experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Appium,

Postman, or RestAssured.

- Solid experience in performance engineering using tools like k6, JMeter, or Locust to

identify system bottlenecks.

- Advanced proficiency with CI/CD orchestration tools (like Harness, BitBucket, or

Jenkins) to optimize automated release cycles.

- High comfort level with cloud-based testing infrastructure like SauceLabs, BrowserStack,

or AWS Device Farm.

- Strong technical analytical skills, the ability to interpret complex specs and discover edge

cases through deep exploration of software behaviors.

- Expert technical communication skills, with the ability to translate complex quality risks

into actionable engineering tasks.

- Proven leadership ability in managing day-to-day operations for local teams and

coordinating with distributed stakeholders while providing technical mentorship to

improve coding standards.

Experience Requirements:

- Generally eight (8) plus years of experience in Software Engineering and Test

Automation, with a proven track record of significantly improving existing automation

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