Test Automation Engineer Lead

Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals. They are seeking a Test Automation Engineer Lead who will guide a team of automation engineers in developing scalable, high-quality test automation frameworks and drive automation strategy across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of automation engineers in designing, developing, and maintaining automated test strategies, scripts, and frameworks across functional, regression, API, UI, and integration testing; recommend test environments, frameworks, and tool stacks
• Mentor and coach automation engineers, analysts, and interns; serve as the automation subject‑matter expert across teams
• Drive automation strategy, including solution planning, framework design, CI/CD integration, and tooling decisions for key initiatives
• Champion and enforce automated testing best practices across teams
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex automation defects and framework issues; lead root‑cause analysis to prevent recurring failures
• Own success metrics and end‑to‑end accountability for automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, including communicating automation health and risk to leadership
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance automation efficiency, reliability, and maintainability
• Collaborate with business and technical SMEs, development teams, QA resources, and external vendors; communicate regularly with senior IT and cross‑functional stakeholders

Requirements:

• High School Diploma is required, plus a BA/BS in related field or equivalent experience preferred
• 8+ years of hands‑on automated testing experience, including ownership or architecture of automation solutions
• Strong track record designing and governing enterprise‑grade automation frameworks with scalable test strategies and solid coding standards
• Proven leadership supporting large enterprise applications and partnering across engineering, product, DevOps, and architecture teams
• Expert proficiency across unit, API, integration, end‑to‑end, regression, performance, and reliability testing
• Advanced experience with Pytest, Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright, including framework optimization and extension
• Deep API testing expertise with tools like Postman and the ability to mentor others in API automation
• Exceptional debugging, system design, and root‑cause analysis skills for complex distributed systems
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including pipelines, environments, and test execution efficiency
• Hands‑on experience with cloud‑based architectures in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Extensive experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, including metrics and governance
• A proactive, ownership‑driven leader committed to quality, automation strategy, and continuous improvement
• Excellent communicator able to influence stakeholders and mentor engineers at all levels
• Experience designing modern cloud and serverless solutions (AWS), with strong CI/CD expertise including Azure DevOps pipelines and GitHub Actions, and contributing to new solution architecture and design