Key skills
Test AutomationPerformance TestingAPI TestingAutomation FrameworksQuality EngineeringAgile SDLCB2B SaaS ExperienceComputer Science DegreeCollaborationProblem-SolvingMentoringPythonAIPlaywrightSeleniumPostmanSaaSAgileScrumSDLCCI/CDLeadershipProduct Management
About this role
Unanet is a growing company seeking a Lead QA Automation Engineer to provide enterprise-grade technical solutions to their quality engineering team. The role involves leading QA efforts, defining automation strategies, and collaborating with various teams to ensure product reliability and scalability.
Responsibilities:
- Lead QA efforts toward successful project delivery, including overseeing manual and automation test strategy, plans, and processes across access points and scrum teams
- Define and evolve comprehensive automation, regression, performance, and release testing strategies within our Agile SDLC
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for web applications, APIs (REST/WebHooks), and database layers
- Write and review high-quality automated test scripts and ensure seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines
- Develop and execute automated API, UI, integration, regression, and performance test suites to ensure product reliability and scalability
- Own and prioritize the QA backlog, including automation coverage, technical debt, and infrastructure testing initiatives
- Serve as the point of escalation for QA matters, managing risk, prioritizing coverage, and ensuring release readiness
- Troubleshoot complex defects by analyzing logs, database traces, and system behavior; drive root cause analysis and long-term quality improvements
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product Management, QA, and Leadership to define acceptance criteria, quality standards, and test requirements
- Champion quality engineering best practices, testability, and maintainable code design
- Mentor and develop QA Engineers through hands-on guidance of automation frameworks, tools, and testing methodologies
- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and building a high-performing QA practice that scales with our organization
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering in B2B SaaS
- 3+ years of test automation experience (e.g., Katalon, Playwright, Selenium)
- Depth of experience as a practitioner writing test cases and enabling automation strategies
- Strong understanding of test methodologies, test case coverage analysis and effective hardening and exploration strategies
- Experience with performance testing (e.g., Jmeter, NeLoad, LoadRunner)
- Experience with API testing (e.g., Postman, Python, SmartBear)
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities, with ability to pair analysis and efficiency in your approach and solutions
- Bachelor's in Computer Science
- Experience leading or mentoring Quality Engineers
- Prior experience with AI-enabled QA technologies preferred