Establish QA automation best practices with UiPath designated as the tool.
Lead a UiPath-based POC, build automation workflows on a UI-only enterprise platform, and coach client resources through tool adoption.
Serve as the primary QA consultant and lead for the engagement, providing strategic guidance and hands-on direction.
Advise client stakeholders on QA best practices, automation strategy, and tooling decisions.
Participate in backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, release planning, and retrospectives.
Ensure QA work is clearly estimated, planned, and aligned with sprint deliverables.
Prepare QA status reports to communicate test progress, test results, risks, and blockers.
Own the overall QA strategy across functional, regression, integration, and non-functional testing.
Design, build, and scale test automation frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
Act as the main QA point of contact for the client, providing strategic recommendations and technical guidance.
Guide and mentor QA engineers, helping them grow in automation, exploratory testing, and technical thinking.

8+ years of professional experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance (SDET).
3+ years serving as a QA Lead, Automation Lead, or Technical QA Lead for complex systems.
Solid, proven experience creating test automation frameworks from scratch—not just enhancing existing ones. (Critical requirement)
Hands-on experience architecting and implementing automation using:
RPA / UI automation: UiPath (required — see UiPath requirements below).
UI tools: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebDriverIO, etc.
API automation frameworks: REST Assured, Postman/Newman, SuperTest, or similar.
Strong programming/scripting experience in languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and QA automation practices.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate QA recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

QA Technical Lead – Automation, UiPath

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