Senior DevOps engineer building full - stack automation tools and CI/CD platforms for General Motors’ automotive software teams. Improving testing, quality monitoring, and engineering delivery workflows.
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Quality Engineering Lead – Automation Architect
Posted 7 hours ago
About the role
- Quality Engineering Lead modernizing automated testing for POMS’ life sciences MES software. Building Playwright frameworks, leading QA teams, and improving release quality through metrics.
Responsibilities
- Own POMS' test automation strategy and roadmap
- Serve as technical lead for the Playwright framework, automation standards, coding guidelines, and review practices
- Design and build scalable Playwright suites in TypeScript
- Organize workflow-based testing suites across functional, API, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Assess manual test inventory and prioritize tests for automation, redesign, consolidation, manual execution, or retirement
- Partner with Development and DevOps to enhance automated regression pipelines and environment, test-data, and parallel-execution strategies
- Apply AI-assisted tools to test generation, maintenance, coverage analysis, and defect identification
- Build, mentor, and develop a QA team
- Establish standards, coaching, delegation, and ownership models for scalable automation
- Set goals, performance expectations, and career development plans; support hiring, onboarding, and succession planning
- Foster quality ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Champion shift-left and risk-based testing
- Participate in requirements, design, and architecture reviews
- Define data-driven release readiness criteria and quality gates
- Own QA for all software releases
- Build operational and executive dashboards and KPIs covering automation coverage, defect escape rates, release readiness, and team performance
- Lead root cause analysis of escaped defects and implement preventive improvements
- Support validation and compliance activities within a regulated software environment
- Establish a baseline quality scorecard and show measurable KPI gains within 12 months
- Increase automated coverage of core and critical product areas
- Deliver reliable, fast, and maintainable automated regression on every build
- Enable the QA team to produce automation at scale
- Detect defects earlier and improve release confidence
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of software quality assurance and testing experience
- Expert-level experience building enterprise-scale test automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or comparable tools
- Strong TypeScript or JavaScript skills
- Strong software engineering skills, including Git, API testing, SQL, debugging, and code review
- Experience integrating automated regression testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable platforms
- Experience scaling automation capability through coaching, standards, and delegation
- Proven use of quality metrics, dashboards, and KPIs to drive decisions and outcomes
- Experience testing complex web-based enterprise applications in Agile environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Hands-on experience building substantial Playwright suites in TypeScript preferred
- Experience leading QA teams or large-scale testing initiatives preferred
- Experience in regulated industries, including GxP and 21 CFR Part 11, preferred
- Experience working across mixed TFVC and Git environments, including migration to Git, preferred
- Demonstrated success transforming a predominantly manual QA organization into an automation-heavy one preferred
- Experience using AI or machine learning to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness preferred
- Knowledge of performance and security testing methodologies preferred
Benefits
- Equal opportunity and inclusive work environment
- Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities
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