QA automations engineer lead

Codelitt is a company that partners with ambitious businesses to build digital products that address real-world challenges. They are seeking a Senior QA Automation Leader to define and drive the automation strategy for QA certification across a complex enterprise platform, ensuring consistency and reliability in testing practices.

Responsibilities:

• Define the written standard for what it means for an environment to be QA-certified
• Create a clear pass/fail bar for environment certification across services, integrations, and platform-level workflows
• Define what integration coverage means across a distributed service architecture
• Create templates for required evidence, test results, service readiness, coverage expectations, and sign-off
• Clarify terminology, ownership, and expectations so engineering, QA, and leadership teams are aligned
• Assess the current automated acceptance and integration testing landscape across dozens of services
• Identify which services already have sufficient automated coverage and which services have gaps
• Understand existing test harnesses, Jenkins orchestration, service-level acceptance tests, and team-specific testing approaches
• Define how automated tests should be triggered, monitored, reported, and used as certification evidence
• Help design a path toward running acceptance and integration tests in a more centralized, repeatable, and reliable way
• Work with engineering teams to determine how missing or legacy test automation should be addressed
• Define how test tenants, test data, and end-to-end flows should be exercised during certification
• Ensure the certification process validates not only individual services, but also meaningful cross-service behavior
• Create or guide coverage matrix templates that show which services, workflows, tenants, and integrations are tested
• Help identify high-risk integration points and prioritize automation work accordingly
• Partner with service teams to confirm dependencies, expected behaviors, failure modes, and validation criteria
• Serve as the technical owner for the QA certification standard
• Work closely with QA, engineering, infrastructure, and delivery stakeholders to drive agreement on the certification approach
• Help teams understand what artifacts they need to provide and what evidence is required for sign-off
• Lead technical discussions around testing gaps, automation feasibility, and certification risk
• Support cross-team adoption of the standard without turning the process into unnecessary bureaucracy
• Help create a practical path from fragmented testing practices to a unified certification program
• Create clear documentation for QA certification workflows, required artifacts, evidence templates, coverage expectations, and escalation paths
• Define how missed testing windows, incomplete coverage, or failed certification checks should be handled
• Help build the foundation for compliance tracking across services and teams
• Support leadership sign-off by making risks, gaps, and readiness visible
• Contribute to a repeatable process that reduces manual coordination and gives stakeholders confidence in platform readiness

Requirements:

• A senior QA automation leader, test architect, or quality engineering leader with experience defining testing standards for complex distributed systems
• Experienced working with large platforms made up of many services, teams, dependencies, and release paths
• Comfortable understanding existing test automation, identifying gaps, and defining what 'good enough to certify' means in a practical delivery environment
• Strong with automated acceptance testing, integration testing, service-level validation, test orchestration, and CI/CD-based test execution
• Able to work across Java, Python, Jenkins, custom test harnesses, APIs, services, and existing QA frameworks, even when the current state is inconsistent or under-documented
• Experienced turning fragmented QA practices into clear standards, templates, evidence requirements, and repeatable certification workflows
• Comfortable partnering with engineering teams, QA teams, infrastructure teams, and leadership to define requirements and drive adoption
• Pragmatic about automation: you know when to standardize, when to adapt to legacy constraints, and when to focus on the highest-risk gaps first
• Able to lead without needing everything to be perfectly defined upfront
• A strong communicator who can explain quality gates, testing gaps, risks, tradeoffs, and next steps to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• 7+ years of experience in QA automation, quality engineering, test architecture, SDET leadership, or similar roles
• Strong experience defining QA automation strategy for complex software platforms
• Experience working with distributed systems, microservices, service-oriented architectures, or large enterprise platforms
• Hands-on experience with automated acceptance testing, integration testing, API testing, and CI/CD test execution
• Experience with Java and/or Python-based test automation environments
• Experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD orchestration tools
• Experience working with custom test harnesses, legacy test frameworks, or mixed testing stacks
• Experience creating test coverage matrices, evidence templates, quality gates, and release certification criteria
• Experience working across many engineering teams and aligning different groups around a shared standard
• Experience with enterprise delivery, platform certification, SAP-adjacent delivery, or large-scale environment validation is a plus
• Experience leading QA transformation, test standardization, or automation maturity initiatives is a strong plus