Senior Automation Lead Test Engineer

Take full ownership of automation strategy, framework evolution, and release readiness across complex telecom systems.

High-Impact Transformation Drive measurable improvements in automation coverage, execution time reduction, and production stability across customer-facing and operational platforms.

Hybrid Flexibility Work in a balanced hybrid model combining collaborative onsite engagement with remote flexibility., * Define and lead enterprise-level test automation strategy across UI, API, integration, and data validation layers.

• Design and implement scalable hybrid automation frameworks (POM, BDD, data-driven) aligned with telecom platform complexity.
• Increase regression automation coverage (targeting 90%+) while reducing manual regression cycles and execution time from days to hours.
• Apply risk-based automation approaches to prioritise critical customer journeys, billing flows, network operations workflows, and integration touchpoints.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), enabling early defect detection and continuous testing.
• Establish quality gates, release readiness reporting, and stakeholder-level test metrics for go/no-go decisions.
• Reduce flaky tests and improve framework stability through reusable utilities, environment stabilisation, and structured code reviews.
• Lead and mentor automation engineers, defining standards for maintainability, test data management, and governance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, DevOps, product, and business stakeholders to translate telecom requirements into testable acceptance criteria.
• Influence "testability by design" by advising on API contracts, logging, validation hooks, and data traceability.
• Support AI-assisted testing initiatives, including intelligent test case generation, automation optimisation, and defect pattern analysis where applicable.

Do you have experience in Test-driven development?, This contract role is ideally suited to a Senior Automation Test Lead with a strong background in automation architecture, CI/CD integration, AI-assisted testing, and risk-based quality governance. You will take ownership of E2E quality across releases, driving automation maturity, reducing regression cycles, and enabling faster, more predictable deployments., Automation Leadership & Strategy

• Proven experience leading automation initiatives across multiple releases.
• Strong background in quality governance, sprint-level quality ownership, and release risk assessment.

Framework Design Expertise

• Hands-on expertise in Selenium, Playwright, and/or Cypress.
• Strong framework architecture experience (POM, BDD, hybrid models, reusable utilities).

Programming & Technical Capability

• Proficient in Java and/or Python.
• Strong API automation experience (Postman, REST Assured).
• Solid understanding of integration and data validation testing.

CI/CD & DevOps Integration

• Experience embedding automation into continuous integration pipelines.
• Cloud-based test execution and parallelisation exposure.

Data & Environment Stability

• Experience in test data management, environment control, and reducing non-deterministic failures.

Stakeholder & Governance Strength

• Comfortable presenting automation metrics, coverage analysis, defect trends, and release-readiness insights to senior stakeholders.
• Strong experience in requirement traceability, root cause analysis, and defect triage leadership.

Telecom / High-Volume System Experience (Advantageous)

• Experience with high-transaction systems, billing workflows, access control systems, ticketing platforms, or similar large-scale environments.

AI-Augmented QA (Desirable)

• Exposure to AI-assisted test design, automation optimisation, and structured/unstructured data validation.

Impact You'll Be Expected to Deliver

• 30-40% reduction in regression cycle time.
• Significant uplift in automation coverage across critical workflows.
• Improved release predictability and production stability.
• Stronger quality governance and measurable quality gates.
• Reduced UAT-stage and post-release defect leakage.

This is an opportunity to operate not just as a test lead, but as a strategic Quality Engineering leader within a complex telecommunications ecosystem.

If you are passionate about building resilient automation frameworks, enabling continuous delivery, and driving measurable quality transformation, we encourage you to apply.